[Federal Register: September 9, 1999 (Volume 64, Number 174)]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

 
University of California at Santa Barbara, 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, 80 Stat. 897; 15 CFR part 301). Related records can be 
viewed between 8:30 a.m. and 5 p.m. in Room 4211, U.S. Department of 
Commerce, 14th and Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, DC.
    Docket Number: 99-018. Applicant: University of California at Santa 
Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106. Instrument: Electron Microscope, 
Model JEM-1230. Manufacturer: JEOL Ltd., Japan. Intended Use: See 
notice at 64 FR 39972, July 23, 1999. Order Date: June 17, 1999.
    Docket Number: 99-019. Applicant: National Institutes of Health, 
Hamilton, MT 59840. Instrument: Electron Microscope, Model H-7500. 
Manufacturer: Nissei Sangyo Ltd., Japan. Intended Use: See notice at 64 
FR 42091. Order Date: May 19, 1999.
    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 a conventional 
transmission electron microscope (CTEM) and is intended for research or 
scientific educational uses requiring a CTEM. We know of no CTEM, or 
any other instrument suited to these purposes, which was being 
manufactured in the United States at the time of order of each 
instrument.
Frank W. Creel,
Director, Statutory Import Programs Staff.
[FR Doc. 99-23436 Filed 9-8-99; 8:45 am]
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