[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 64 (Wednesday, April 2, 2008)]
[Notices]
[Pages 17954-17955]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E8-6841]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration


VA Connecticut Healthcare System, et al., Notice of Consolidated 
Decision on Applications for Duty-Free Entry of Electron Microscopes

This is a decision consolidated pursuant to Section 6(c) of the 
Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Materials Importation Act of 1966 
(Pub. L. 89-651, 80 Stat. 897; 15 CFR part 301). Related records can be 
viewed between 8:30 A.M. and 5:00 P.M. in Room 2104, U.S. Department of 
Commerce, 14th and Constitution Avenue., NW, Washington, D.C.
Docket Number: 08-004. Applicant: VA Connecticut Healthcare System, 
West Haven, CT 06516. Instrument: Electron Microscope, Model JEM-1011. 
Manufacturer: Jeol, Inc., Japan. Intended Use: See notice at 73 FR 
12078, March 6, 2008.
Docket Number: 08-005. Applicant: University of Utah, Salt Lake City, 
UT 84112. Instrument: Electron Microscope, Model 600 Quanta FEG. 
Manufacturer: FEI Company, Czech Republic. Intended Use: See notice at 
73 FR 12078, March 6, 2008.

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Docket Number: 08-006. Applicant: Advocate Lutheran General Hospital-
EM/Pathology, Park Ridge, IL 60068. Instrument: Electron Microscope, 
Model H-7650. Manufacturer: Hitachi High-Technologies Corp., Japan. 
Intended Use: See notice at 73 FR 12078, March 6, 2008.
Comments: None received. Decision: Approved. No instrument of 
equivalent scientific value to the foreign instrument, for such 
purposes as these instruments are intended to be used, was being 
manufactured in the United States at the time the instruments were 
ordered. Reasons: Each foreign instrument is an electron microscope and 
is intended for research or scientific educational uses requiring an 
electron microscope. We know of no electron microscope, or any other 
instrument suited to these purposes, which was being manufactured in 
the United States at the time of order of each instrument.

    Dated: March 27, 2008.
Faye Robinson,
Director, Statutory Import Programs Staff, Import Administration.
[FR Doc. E8-6841 Filed 4-1-08; 8:45 am]
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