[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 164 (Friday, August 23, 2013)]
[Notices]
[Page 52504]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2013-20632]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration


Oregon Health and Science 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 5:00 
p.m. in Room 3720, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th and Constitution 
Avenue NW., Washington, DC.
    Docket Number: 13-001. Applicant: Oregon Health and Science 
University, Portland, OR 97239. Instrument: Electron Microscope. 
Manufacturer: FEI Company, the Netherlands. Intended Use: See notice at 
78 FR 13860-61, March 1, 2013.
    Docket Number: 13-003. Applicant: Howard Hughes Medical Institute, 
Chevy Chase, MD 20815. Instrument: Electron Microscope. Manufacturer: 
FEI, the Netherlands. Intended Use: See notice at 78 FR 13860-61, March 
1, 2013.
    Docket Number: 13-004. Applicant: Georgia Institute of Technology, 
Atlanta, GA 30332. Instrument: Electron Microscope. Manufacturer: 
Hitachi High-Technologies Corp., Japan. Intended Use: See notice at 78 
FR 13860-61, March 1, 2013.
    Docket Number: 13-005. Applicant: Case Western Reserve University, 
Cleveland, OH 44106-4965. Instrument: Electron Microscope. 
Manufacturer: JEOL Ltd., Japan. Intended Use: See notice at 78 FR 
13860-61, March 1, 2013.
    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: August 15, 2013.
Gregory W. Campbell,
Director, Subsidies Enforcement Office, Import Administration.
[FR Doc. 2013-20632 Filed 8-22-13; 8:45 am]
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