[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 64 (Tuesday, April 3, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Page 20009]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-7984]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration


Howard Hughes Medical Institute, 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: 11-074. Applicant: Howard Hughes Medical Institute, 
Chevy Chase, MD 20815. Instrument: Electron Microscope. Manufacturer: 
FEI Company, Czech Republic. Intended Use: See notice at 77 FR 12240, 
February 29, 2012.
    Docket Number: 12-002. Applicant: National Center for Toxicological 
Research, Jefferson, AR 72079. Instrument: Electron Microscope. 
Manufacturer: JEOL Instruments, Japan. Intended Use: See notice at 77 
FR 12240, February 29, 2012.
    Docket Number: 12-004. Applicant: Max Planck Florida Institute, 
Jupiter, FL 33458. Instrument: Freeze Fracture/Freeze Etch device. 
Manufacturer: JEOL, Ltd., Japan. Intended Use: See notice at 77 FR 
12240, February 29, 2012.
    Docket Number: 12-005. Applicant: VA Palo Alto Health Care System, 
Palo Alto, CA 94304-1207. Instrument: Electron Microscope. 
Manufacturer: FEI Company, Czech Republic. Intended Use: See notice at 
77 FR 12240, February 29, 2012.
    Docket Number: 12-006. Applicant: William Patterson University, 
Wayne, NJ 07470. Instrument: Electron Microscope. Manufacturer: Hitachi 
High Technologies America, Inc., Japan. Intended Use: See notice at 77 
FR 12240, February 29, 2012.
    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: March 26, 2012.
Gregory W. Campbell,
Director, Subsidies Enforcement Office, Import Administration.
[FR Doc. 2012-7984 Filed 4-2-12; 8:45 am]
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