[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 82 (Friday, April 28, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Pages 20968-20969]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-10525]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
University of California, Irvine, 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: 94-130. Applicant: University of California, Irvine,
CA 92717-1650. Instrument: Positron Emission Tomography Camera System,
Model GE 2048. Manufacturer: General Electric, Sweden. Intended Use:
See notice at 59 FR 60607, November 25, 1994. Reasons: The foreign
instrument provides: (1) a detector ring diameter of 51.5 cm (for head
only measurements), (2) interleaved imaging of 30 simultaneous slices
in a single acquisition interval and (3) stationary or operator
selectable wobble (1-60 RPM) modes. Advice Received From: The National
Institutes of Health, February 16, 1995.
Docket Number: 94-132. Applicant: The Regents of the University of
California, Riverside, CA 92521. Instrument: Microvolume Stopped-Flow
Spectroflourimeter, Model SX-17MV. Manufacturer: Applied Photophysics,
Ltd., United Kingdom. Intended Use: See notice at 59 FR 63762, December
9, 1994. Reasons: The foreign instrument provides: (1) automated stop
syringe operation and data acquisition via 32 bit RISC-processor
workstation, (2) log time base data acquisition, (3) high
reproducibility of repeat measurements and (4) dead time of
850s. Advice Received From: The National Institutes of Health,
February 16, 1995.
Docket Number: 94-136. Applicant: Iowa State University of Science
and Technology, Ames, Iowa 50011-4050. Instrument: Servo Systems
Experiments, Model SRV-02. Manufacturer: Quanser Consulting, Canada.
Intended Use: See notice at 59 FR 63762, December 9, 1994. Reasons: The
foreign instrument provides designed capability for use in academic
laboratories to demonstrate principles related to equations of motion
and dynamic responses in digital control system design and theory.
Advice Received From: The National Institutes of Health, February 16,
1995.
Docket Number: 94-137. Applicant: University of Vermont,
Burlington, VT 05405. Instrument: Trough, Model 611M-100. Manufacturer:
CTC Technologies, United Kingdom. Intended Use: See notice at 59 FR
63762, December 9, 1994. Reasons: The foreign instrument provides
preparation of lipid monolayers for structural studies including atomic
force microscopy. Advice Received From: The National Institutes of
Health, February 16, 1995.
Docket Number: 95-003. Applicant: The Pennsylvania State
University, University Park, PA 16802-4801. Instrument: Automatic
Grinding, Mixing, Stirring and Kneading Machines. Manufacturer: Nitto
Kagaku Co., Ltd., Japan. Intended Use: See notice at 60 FR 9662,
February 21, 1995. Reasons: The foreign instrument
[[Page 20969]] provides automatic grinding and mixing of raw powders to
high levels of uniformity and purity (99.999%) using dual crossing arms
which rotate in opposite directions from a rotating mortar. Advice
Received From: The National Institute of Standards and Technology,
March 29, 1995.
The National Institutes of Health and The National Institute of
Standards and Technology 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 scientific value to any of the
foreign instruments.
Frank W. Creel,
Director, Statutory Import Programs Staff.
[FR Doc. 95-10525 Filed 4-27-95; 8:45 am]
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