[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 1 (Tuesday, January 3, 2012)]
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[FR Doc No: 2011-33679]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration


Oregon State University, et al.; Notice of Consolidated Decision 
on Applications for Duty-Free Entry of Electron Microscope

    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 3720, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th and Constitution Avenue 
NW., Washington, DC.

    Docket Number: 11-067. Applicant: Oregon State University, 
Corvallis, OR. 97331. Instrument: Electron Microscope. Manufacturer: 
FEI Co., the Netherlands. Intended Use: See notice at 76 FR 74045, 
November 30, 2011.

    Docket Number: 11-068. Applicant: Regents of the University of 
California at Riverside, Riverside, CA 92521-0411. Instrument: Electron 
Microscope. Manufacturer: FEI Co., the Netherlands. Intended Use: See 
notice at 76 FR 74045, November 30, 2011.

    Docket Number: 11-069. Applicant: U.S. Food and Drug 
Administration, Silver Spring, MD 20903. Instrument: Electron 
Microscope. Manufacturer: JEOL, Ltd., Japan. Intended Use: See notice 
at 76 FR 74045, November 30, 2011.

    Comments: None received. Decision: Approved. No instrument of 
equivalent scientific value to the foreign instrument, for such 
purposes as this instrument is intended to be used, is being 
manufactured in the United States at the time the instrument was 
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: December 22, 2011.
Gregory W. Campbell,
Director, Subsidies Enforcement Office, Import Administration.
[FR Doc. 2011-33679 Filed 12-30-11; 8:45 am]
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