[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 238 (Thursday, December 11, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 65244-65245]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-32446]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 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: 97-064. Applicant: University of Illinois at Urbana-
Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801. Instrument: Reflection High Energy
Electron Gun. Manufacturer: Focus GmbH, Germany. Intended Use: See
notice at 62 FR 43710, August 15, 1997. Reasons: The foreign instrument
provides: (1) Selectable beam diameter, (2) magnetic and electrostatic
focusing to reduce size of beam and (3) double octopole defection
system for better steering. Advice received from: National Institute of
Standards and Technology, November 7, 1997.
Docket Number: 97-065. Applicant: Princeton University, Princeton,
NJ 08544-0033. Instrument: (50) Seismometers. Manufacturer: Guralp
Systems Ltd., United Kingdom. Intended Use: See notice at 62 FR 43710,
August 15, 1997. Reasons: The foreign instrument provides a frequency
response from 0.03 to 10 Hz with simplified operational design for use
by high school science students. Advice received from: The U.S.
Geological Survey, November 6, 1997.
The National Institute of Standards and Technology and the U.S.
Geological Survey advise 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
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scientific value to either of the foreign instruments.
Frank W. Creel,
Director, Statutory Import Programs Staff.
[FR Doc. 97-32446 Filed 12-10-97; 8:45 am]
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