[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 136 (Wednesday, July 16, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 38067-38068]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-18732]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; 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 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: 97-036. Applicant: University of Illinois at Urbana-
Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801. Instrument: Thermal Analysis Mass
Spectrometer, Model STA 409. Manufacturer: Netzsch, Germany. Intended
Use: See notice at 62 FR 27722, May 21, 1997. Reasons: The foreign
instrument provides a mass spectrometer which allows simultaneous
thermal characterizations of materials from room temperature to
2000 deg.C by thermogravimetry, differential thermal analysis,
differential
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scanning calorimetry and evolved gas analysis. Advice received from:
U.S. Navy, David Taylor Model Basin, July 2, 1997.
Docket Number: 97-037. Applicant: University of Illinois at Urbana-
Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801. Instrument: UHV Evaporators, Models EFM3
and EFM4. Manufacturer: Focus GmbH, Germany. Intended Use: See notice
at 62 FR 27237, May 19, 1997. Reasons: The foreign instrument provides:
(1) Operation as either an electron beam evaporator or as an effusion
cell evaporator, (2) high temperature operation (to 2000 deg.C) for
elements such as tantalum, (3) a beam monitor to provide stable
emission and (4) water cooling of the source inside the vacuum. Advice
received from: National Science Foundation, Center for Interfacial
Engineering, July 2, 1997.
The U.S. Navy and the National Science Foundation 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 either of
the foreign instruments.
Frank W. Creel,
Director, Statutory Import Programs Staff.
[FR Doc. 97-18732 Filed 7-15-97; 8:45 am]
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