[Federal Register Volume 74, Number 152 (Monday, August 10, 2009)]
[Notices]
[Page 39918]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E9-19087]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration


University of Texas at Austin, 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: 09-038. Applicant: University of Texas at Austin, 
Austin, TX 78758. Instrument: Electron Microscope. Manufacturer: FEI 
Company, Czech Republic. Intended Use: See notice at 74 FR 32890, July 
9, 2009.
    Docket Number: 09-039. Applicant: National Institutes of Health, 
Hamilton, MT 59840. Instrument: Electron Microscope. Manufacturer: FEI 
Company, Czech Republic. Intended Use: See notice at 74 FR 32890, July 
9, 2009.
    Docket Number: 09-040. Applicant: Stanford University, Stanford, CA 
94305. Instrument: Electron Microscope. Manufacturer: FEI Company, the 
Netherlands. Intended Use: See notice at 74 FR 32890, July 9, 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: August 4, 2009.
Gregory Campbell,
Acting Director, Subsidies Enforcement Office, Import Administration.
[FR Doc. E9-19087 Filed 8-7-09; 8:45 am]
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