[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 123 (Tuesday, June 27, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Pages 33189-33190]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-15611]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Beckman 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.
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: 95-001. Applicant: Beckman Research Institute of the
City of Hope, Duarte, CA 91010. Instrument: Mass Spectrometer, Model
MAT 900. Manufacturer: Finnigan MAT, Germany. Intended Use: See notice
at 60 FR 5166, January 26, 1995. Reasons: The foreign instrument
provides: (1) capability of switching modes between scans based on
results of the previous scan, (2) magnetic sector operations and (3)
high sensitivity with electrospray. Advice Received From: National
Institutes of Health, April 25, 1995.
Docket Number: 95-002. Applicant: Metropolitan Water District of
Southern California, La Verne, CA 91750. Instrument: Mass Spectrometer,
Model Autospec. Manufacturer: Fisons, United Kingdom. Intended Use: See
notice at 60 FR 7168, February 7, 1995. Reasons: The foreign instrument
provides [[Page 33190]] magnetic sector design permitting both high and
low energy MS/MS with resolution to 60 000 and accuracy to
0.002 dalton to eliminate chemical interferences. Advice
Received From: National Institutes of Health, April 25, 1995.
Docket Number: 95-006. Applicant: Northwestern University,
Evanston, IL 60208-2150. Instrument: Mass Spectrometer, Model OPTIMA.
Manufacturer: Fisons Instruments, United Kingdom. Intended Use: See
notice at 60 FR 9662, February 21, 1995. Reasons: The foreign
instrument provides: (1) on-line and dual-microinlet sample preparation
and (2) high accuracy, high precision simultaneous multi-isotope
measurements of gaseous species. Advice Received From: National
Institutes of Health, April 25, 1995.
Docket Number: 95-009. Applicant: University of Texas at Austin,
Austin, TX 78712. Instrument: Precise Range and Range-rate Equipment
Satellite Tracking Ground Station. Manufacturer: Dornier GmbH, Germany.
Intended Use: See notice at 60 FR 13700, March 14, 1995. Reasons: The
foreign instrument provides: (1) a regenerative, coherent X-band
transponder for precise range and range rate measurements and (2) an S-
band receiver for measurement of S/X-band delay difference to permit
operation as a ground station for the ERS-2 satellite. Advice Received
From: The Satellite Research Lab, NOAA, April 25, 1995.
The National Institutes of Health and The Satellite Research Lab
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. 95-15611 Filed 6-26-95; 8:45 am]
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