95-7610. Department of the Interior, et al.; Notice of Consolidated Decision on Applications for Duty-Free Entry of Scientific Instruments

[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 59 (Tuesday, March 28, 1995)]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Department of the Interior, 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 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: 94-141. Applicant: Department of the Interior, Menlo 
Park, CA 94025. Instrument: SIR Mass Spectrometer, Model PRISM. 
Manufacturer: Fisons Instruments, United Kingdom. Intended Use: See 
notice at 60 FR 442, January 4, 1995. Reasons: The foreign instrument 
provides: (1) an adjustable multicollector with four deep Faraday 
buckets, (2) an electromagnetic sector analyzer with a 50 cm dispersion 
and (3) an online elemental analyzer.
    Docket Number: 94-148. Applicant: Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory 
of Columbia University, Palisades, NY 10964. Instrument: Isotope Ratio-
Gas Source Mass Spectrometer, Model PRISM. Manufacturer: Fisons 
Instruments, United Kingdom. Intended Use: See notice at 60 FR 443, 
January 4, 1995. Reasons: The foreign instrument provides: (1) an 
adjustable multicollector with four deep Faraday buckets, (2) an 
electromagnetic sector analyzer with a 50 cm dispersion and (3) an 
automatic cold finger for samples as small as 0.2 ml.
    These capabilities of each of the foreign instruments described 
above is pertinent to each applicant's intended purposes. We know of no 
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. 95-7610 Filed 3-27-95; 8:45 am]
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