[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 101 (Thursday, May 25, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Pages 27722-27723]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-12906]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
The Scripps Research Institute, 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. [[Page 27723]]
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: 94-149. Applicant: The Scripps Research Institute,
LaJolla, CA 92037. Instrument: Microvolume Stopped Flow
Spectrofluorimeter, Model SX.17MV. Manufacturer: Applied Photophysics,
United Kingdom. Intended Use: See notice at 60 FR 3394, January 17,
1995. Reasons: The foreign instrument provides: (1) multiple component
mixing, (2) automatic acquisition of time-resolved emission spectra
and, (3) 150W Xenon source covering the entire UV-VIS wavelength range.
Advice Received From: The National Institutes of Health, March 21,
1995.
Docket Number: 95-007. Applicant: Ohio State University, Columbus,
OH 43210. Instrument: Frequency Synthesizer. Manufacturer: KVARTZ
Measuring Instruments & Systems, CIS. Intended Use: See notice at 60 FR
9662, February 21, 1995. Reasons: The foreign instrument provides: (1)
swept frequency over the range 118 to 178 GHz, (2) 100 Hz resolution
and (3) output power to 25 mW for pumping and observing specific
molecular absorptions. Advice Received From: National Institute of
Standards and Technology, April 5, 1995 and Los Alamos National
Laboratory, April 11, 1995.
The National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Standards
and Technology and Los Alamos National Laboratory advise that (1) these
capabilities 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 either of
the foreign instruments.
Frank W. Creel,
Director, Statutory Import Programs Staff.
[FR Doc. 95-12906 Filed 5-24-95; 8:45 am]
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