[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 77 (Thursday, April 22, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Page 20982]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-9356]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration


West Virginia University, 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, 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 3705, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th and Constitution 
Avenue., NW, Washington, D.C.
Docket Number: 09-067. Applicant: West Virginia University, Morgantown, 
WV 26506. Instrument: Electron Microscope. Manufacturer: JEOL, Japan. 
Intended Use: See notice at 75 FR 13486, March 22, 2010.
Docket Number: 10-001. Applicant: United States Environmental 
Protection Agency, Cincinnati, OH 45268. Instrument: Electron 
Microscope. Manufacturer: JEOL, Japan. Intended Use: See notice at 75 
FR 12175, March 15, 2010.
Docket Number: 10-003. Applicant: St. Lawrence University, Canton, NY 
13617. Instrument: Electron Microscope. Manufacturer: FEI, Czech 
Republic. Intended Use: See notice at 75 FR 13486, March 22, 2010.
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 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.

Christopher Cassel,
Director, Subsidies Enforcement Office, Import Administration.
[FR Doc. 2010-9356 Filed 4-21-10; 8:45 am]
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