[Federal Register Volume 74, Number 57 (Thursday, March 26, 2009)]
[Notices]
[Page 13192]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E9-6798]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration


University of Colorado, 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, as amended by Pub. L. 106-36; 80 Stat. 897; 15 CFR 
part 301). Related records can be viewed between 8:30 a.m. and 5 p.m. 
in Room 3705, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th and Constitution 
Avenue, NW., Washington, DC.

    Docket Number: 08-050. Applicant: University of Colorado, Boulder, 
CO 80309-0427. Instrument: Dual Beam FIB Electron Microscope. 
Manufacturer: FEI Company, Czech Republic. Intended Use: See notice at 
74 FR 7588, February 18, 2009.

    Docket Number: 08-051. Applicant: Lawrence Berkeley National 
Laboratory. Instrument: Electron Microscope. Manufacturer: FEI Company, 
The Netherlands. Intended Use: See notice at 74 FR 7588, February 18, 
2009.

    Docket Number: 08-062. Applicant: Carnegie Mellon University, 
Pittsburgh, PA 15213. Instrument: Scanning Electron Microscope. 
Manufacturer: FEI Company, The Netherlands. Intended Use: See notice at 
74 FR 7588, February 18, 2009.

    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 19, 2009.
Chris Cassel,
Acting Director, Subsidies Enforcement Office, Import Administration.
 [FR Doc. E9-6798 Filed 3-25-09; 8:45 am]
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