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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

Ames Laboratory, Et Al. Notice of Consolidated Decision on Applications for Duty-Free Entry of Scientific Instruments

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 5:00 P.M. in Room 4211, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th and Constitution Avenue, NW, Washington, DC.

Comments: None received. Decision: Approved. No instrument of equivalent scientific value to the foreign instruments described below, for such purposes as each is intended to be used, is being manufactured in the United States.

Docket Number: 98-057. Applicant: Ames Laboratory, U.S. Department of Energy, Ames, IA 50011-3020. Instrument: Auger Microprobe, Model JAMP-7800F. Manufacturer: JEOL Ltd., Japan.

Intended Use: See notice at 63 FR 65751, November 30, 1998.

Reasons: The foreign instrument provides highest energy resolution of 0.05% with 1.0 nm for secondary electrons and 35nm for Auger analysis. Advice received from: National Institute of Standards and Technology, January 13, 1999.

Docket Number: 98-063. Applicant: University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742. Instrument: Electron Microprobe, Model JXA-8900R. Manufacturer: JEOL Ltd., Japan. Intended Use: See notice at 63 FR 69264, December 16, 1998. Reasons: The foreign instrument provides characterization of elemental composition and structure in surfaces with resolution down to 1 ‹greek-m›m. Advice received from: National Institute of Standards and Technology, January 13, 1999.

The National Institute of Standards and Technology advises that (1) the capabilities of each of the foreign instruments described above are pertinent to each applicant's intended purpose and (2) it knows of no domestic instrument or apparatus of equivalent scientific value for the intended use of each instrument.

We know of no other instrument or apparatus being manufactured in the United States which is of equivalent scientific value to either of the foreign instruments. Frank W. Creel, Director, Statutory Import Programs Staff.

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