[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 49 (Tuesday, March 14, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Page 13701]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-6259]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Medical College of Pennsylvania, 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: 94-109. Applicant: Medical College of Pennsylvania,
Philadelphia, PA 19129. Instrument: High Intensity Xenon Flashlamp
System, Model HF-10. Manufacturer: Hi-Tech Scientific, United Kingdom.
Intended Use: See notice at 59 FR 52288, October 17, 1994. Reasons: The
foreign instrument provides: (1) stored electrical energy to 340 J, (2)
anti-reflection coated quartz optics for focusing and (3) optical/
electrical shielding. Advice Received From: National Institutes of
Health, January 9, 1995.
Docket Number: 94-114. Applicant: University of Illinois at Urbana,
IL 61801. Instrument: Aqua-Tox-Control-Daphnia Monitor. Manufacturer:
Kerre Umwelt Technik GmbH, Germany. Intended Use: See notice at 59 FR
52958, October 20, 1994. Reasons: The foreign instrument provides use
of small invertebrate organisms as rapid indicators of toxicity in
aqueous sources. Advice Received From: National Institutes of Health,
January 9, 1995.
Docket Number: 94-115. Applicant: University of California, Davis,
CA 95616. Instrument: High Intensity Xenon Flashlamp System, Model XF-
10. Manufacturer: Hi-Tech Scientific, United Kingdom. Intended Use: See
notice at 59 FR 52958, October 20, 1994. Reasons: The foreign
instrument provides: (1) stored electrical energy to 340 J, (2) anti-
reflection coated quartz optics for focusing and (3) optical/electrical
shielding. Advice Received From: National Institutes of Health, January
9, 1995.
Docket Number: 94-119. Applicant: Howard Hughes Medical Institute,
Houston, TX 77030. Instrument: X-Ray Diffraction Image Processor, Model
DIP-2030. Manufacturer: Mac Science Co., Ltd., Japan. Intended Use: See
notice at 59 FR 52958, October 20, 1994. Reasons: The foreign
instrument provides: (1) sensitivity of 1 x-ray proton per level, (2)
dynamic range of 106 and (3) measurement with pseudo - Weissenberg
geometry. Advice Received From: National Institutes of Health, January
9, 1995.
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.
Frank Creel
Director, Statutory Import Programs Staff
[FR Doc. 95-6259 Filed 3-13-95; 8:45 am]
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