[Federal Register Volume 74, Number 81 (Wednesday, April 29, 2009)]
[Notices]
[Page 19525]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E9-9810]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration


William S. Middleton VA Hospital, 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 5:00 
P.M. in Room 3705, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th and Constitution 
Avenue., NW, Washington, D.C.
Docket Number: 09-004. Applicant: William S. Middleton Veterans 
Administration Hospital, Madison, WI 53706. Instrument: Electron 
Microscope, Model H-760-III. Manufacturer: Hitachi High Technologies 
Corporation, Japan. Intended Use: See notice at 74 FR 11527, March 18, 
2009.
Docket Number: 09-006. Applicant: Bergen County Technical Schools/
Bergen County Academies, Hackensack, NJ 07601. Instrument: Transmission 
Electron Microscope, Model JEM-2100. Manufacturer: JEOL, Ltd., Japan. 
Intended Use: See notice at 74 FR 11527, March 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: April 23, 2009.
Christopher Cassel,
Acting Director, Subsidies Enforcement Office, Import Administration.
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