[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 42 (Friday, March 1, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Page 8042]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-4755]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
University of Hawaii, 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: 94-154R. Applicant: University of Hawaii, Honolulu,
HI 96822. Instrument: ICP Mass Spectrometer, Model PlasmaQuad.
Manufacturer: Fisons Instruments, United Kingdom. Intended Use: See
notice at 60 FR 5165, January 26, 1995. Reasons: The foreign instrument
provides a UV laser ablation sample introduction system. Advice
Received From: National Institutes of Health, February 14, 1996.
Docket Number: 95-115. Applicant: University of Vermont,
Burlington, VT 05405-0082. Instrument: Ammonia Emission Measurement
Equipment. Manufacturer: Swedish Institute of Agricultural Engineering,
Sweden. Intended Use: See notice at 60 FR 64158, December 14, 1995.
Reasons: The foreign instrument provides in-situ measurement of
equilibrium concentrations of ammonia in a ventilated chamber employing
passive diffusion samplers. Advice Received From: National Institutes
of Health, February 5, 1996.
The National Institutes of Health advises in its memoranda 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.
[FR Doc. 96-4755 Filed 2-29-96; 8:45 am]
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