[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 15 (Monday, January 25, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Page 3895]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-1338]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration


Yale 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, 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: 09-064. Applicant: Yale University, New Haven, CT 
06520-8284. Instrument: Electron Microscope, Quanta 3D Dual-Beam 
Focused Ion-Beam Tool. Manufacturer: FEI Company, Czech Republic. 
Intended Use: See notice at 74 FR 67851, December 21, 2009.
    Docket Number: 09-065. Applicant: U.S. Department of Homeland 
Security, Science and Technology Directorate, Frederick, MD 21702. 
Instrument: Scanning Electron Microscope, Quanta 200 FEG. Manufacturer: 
FEI Company, Czech Republic. Intended Use: See notice at 74 FR 67851, 
December 21, 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: January 19, 2010.
Christopher Cassel,
Director, Subsidies Enforcement Office, Import Administration.
[FR Doc. 2010-1338 Filed 1-22-10; 8:45 am]
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