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[FR Doc No: 94-26942]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Jewish Center of Immunology and Respiratory Medicine, 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, N.W., Washington, D.C.
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: 94-082. Applicant: National Jewish Center for
Immunology and Respiratory Medicine, Denver, CO 80206. Instrument: Mass
Spectrometer System, Model API III ``Plus.'' Manufacturer: Perkin-Elmer
Sciex Instruments, Canada. Intended Use: See notice at 59 FR 38439,
July 28, 1994. Reasons: The foreign instrument provides: (1) triple
guadrupole MS, (2) atmospheric pressure articulated ionspray, (3) HPLC
flow rates of 5 to 1000 l per minute, (4) a protein data bank
software and (5) more accurate analysis of leukotriene B4 and
platelet activity factor. Advice Received From: National Institutes of
Health, September 9, 1994.
Docket Number: 94-084. Applicant: University of Illinois at
Chicago, Chicago, IL 60612. Instrument: Stopped Flow
Spectrofluorimeter, Model SX-17MV. Manufacturer: Applied Photophysics
Limited, United Kingdom. Intended Use: See notice at 59 FR 38439, July
28, 1994. Reasons: The foreign instrument provides a fluorescence
detection capability of 5 x 10-10 M and 25 l minimum
sample volume capability. Advice Received From: National Institutes of
Health, September 9, 1994.
The National Institutes of Health advises that (1) the capabilities
of each of the foreign instruments described above are pertinent to
each applicant's intended purpose and (2) they know 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 any of the
foreign instruments.
Pamela Woods,
Acting Director, Statutory Import Programs Staff.
[FR Doc. 94-26942 Filed 10-28-94; 8:45 am]
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