[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 119 (Thursday, June 19, 2008)]
[Notices]
[Page 34917]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E8-13886]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration


Ohio State University, 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 p.m. in Room 
2104, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th and Constitution Avenue., NW., 
Washington, DC.
    Docket Number: 08-014. Applicant: Ohio State University, Columbus 
OH 43210. Instrument: Electron Microscope. Manufacturer: FEI Company, 
The Netherlands. Intended Use: See notice at 73 FR 30377.
    Docket Number: 08-015. Applicant: Texas Children's Hospital, 
Houston, TX 77030. Instrument: Transmission Electron Microscope. 
Manufacturer: FEI Company, Czech Republic. Intended Use: See notice at 
73 FR 30377.
    Docket Number: 08-020. Applicant: Bergen County Technical Schools/
Bergen County Academies, Hackensack, NJ 07601. Instrument: Scanning 
Electron Microscope. Manufacturer: FEI Company, Czech Republic. 
Intended Use: See notice at 73 FR 30377.
    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: June 16, 2008.
Faye Robinson,
Director, Statutory Import Programs Staff, Import Administration.
 [FR Doc. E8-13886 Filed 6-18-08; 8:45 am]
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