[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 82 (Friday, April 28, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Page 20967]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-10527]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Simpson College, 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: 94-033R. Applicant: Simpson College, Indianola, IA
50125. Instrument: Rapid Kinetics Accessory, Model SFA-12.
Manufacturer: Hi-Tech Scientific, United Kingdom. Intended Use: See
notice at 59 FR 16188, April 6, 1994. Reasons: The foreign instrument
provides designed capability for use in classroom demonstration of
principles of stopped flow kinetics for reactions with half-lives of .5
to 5 seconds.
Docket Number: 94-071R. Applicant: University of Arkansas for
Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR 72205-7122. Instrument: Rapid
Kinetics Accessory, Model SFA-20. Manufacturer: Hi Tech Scientific,
United Kingdom. Intended Use: See notice at 59 FR 31208, June 17, 1994.
Reasons: The foreign instrument provides customized compatibility with
the observation cell and a Hewlett Packard 8452A diode array
spectrophotometer.
Docket Number: 94-131. Applicant: University of Rhode Island,
Narragansett, RI 02882-1197. Instrument: 5-sample Anticoincidence
Multicounter System, Model GM-25-5. Manufacturer: Riso National
Laboratory, Denmark. Intended Use: See notice at 59 FR 60607, November
25, 1994. Reasons: The foreign instrument provides: (1) anti-
coincidence mode detection to reduce background cosmic radiation, (2)
low-level beta counting of less than 0.2 CPM, and (3) a 5-sample
simultaneous measurement gas-flow multicounter unit.
Docket Number: 94-133. Applicant: Woods Hole Oceanographic
Institution, Woods Hole, MA 02543. Instrument: Multi-Sensor Core
Logger. Manufacturer: GEOTEK, United Kingdom. Intended Use: See notice
at 59 FR 63762, December 9, 1994. Reasons: The foreign instrument
provides measurements of bulk density, magnetic susceptibility, P-wave
velocity and gamma ray absorption from extracted cores of sediment.
Docket Number: 94-138. Applicant: Texas A&M Research Foundation,
College Station, TX 77843. Instrument: 600M Fluorometer and
Accessories, Model AquatrackA MKIII. Manufacturer: Chelsea Instrument,
United Kingdom. Intended Use: See notice at 59 FR 63762, December 9,
1994. Reasons: The foreign instrument provides: (1) chlorophyll-a
measurements over 5 orders of magnitude using logarithmic scaling, (2)
low power consumption and (3) deployment in seawater.
The National Institutes of Health advises in its memoranda of
February 16, 1995 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. 95-10527 Filed 4-27-95; 8:45 am]
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