65FR38244A University of Michigan; Notice of Decision on Application for Duty-Free Entry of Scientific Instrument
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Posting-number: Volume 65, Issue 119, Page 38244A
[Federal Register: June 20, 2000 (Volume 65, Number 119)]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
University of Michigan; Notice of Decision on Application for
Duty-Free Entry of Scientific Instrument
This decision is made 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 5:00 p.m. in Room 4211, U.S. Department of
Commerce, 14th and Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, DC.
Docket Number: 00-011. Applicant: University of Michigan, Ann
Arbor, MI 48109-1055. Instrument: Electron Beam Evaporator, Model EGN4.
Manufacturer: Oxford Applied Research, United Kingdom. Intended Use:
See notice at 65 FR 26583, May 8, 2000.
Comments: None received. Decision: Approved. No instrument of
equivalent scientific value to the foreign instrument, for such
purposes as it is intended to be used, is being manufactured in the
United States. Reasons: The foreign instrument provides: (1) Capability
to evaporate four different materials and (2) an interface to a vacuum
chamber via a 2\3/4\ inch CF flange. Two domestic manufacturers of
similar equipment advise that (1) These capabilities are pertinent to
the applicant's intended purpose and (2) they know of no domestic
instrument or apparatus of equivalent scientific value to the foreign
instrument for the applicant's intended use.
We know of no other instrument or apparatus of equivalent
scientific value to the foreign instrument which is being manufactured
in the United States.
Frank W. Creel,
Director, Statutory Import Programs Staff.
[FR Doc. 00-15524 Filed 6-19-00; 8:45 am]
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