[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 160 (Friday, August 16, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 42590-42591]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-20933]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
University of Wisconsin, 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: 95-085R. Applicant: University of Wisconsin-Eau
Claire, Eau Claire, WI 54702. Instrument: Absorbance and Fluorescence
Stopped-Flow Spectrophotometer, Model SX.17MV. Manufacturer: Applied
Photophysics Ltd., United Kingdom. Intended Use: See notice at 60 FR
50555, September 29, 1995. Reasons: The foreign instrument provides a
fast enough dead time for observation of rapid reactions with rate
constants approaching 1500 reciprocal seconds. Advice received from:
The National Institutes of Health, June 10, 1996.
Docket Number: 96-029. Applicant: University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
52242. Instrument: EPR Spectrometer, Model EMX 6/1. Manufacturer:
Bruker Instruments, Germany. Intended Use: See notice at 61 FR 28176,
June 4, 1996. Reasons: The foreign instrument provides a multifrequency
single-channel cavity with a continuous range of modulation frequencies
from 6 kHz to 100 kHz with a resolution of 0.01 kHz. Advice received
from: The National Institutes of Health, March 29, 1996.
Docket Number: 96-033. Applicant: University of Southern
California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-2520. Instrument: Xenon Flashlamp
System, Model XF-10. Manufacturer: Hi-Tech Scientific, United Kingdom.
Intended Use: See notice at 61 FR 28176, June 4, 1996. Reasons: The
foreign instrument provides: (1) a high voltage power supply integrated
and coupled to a xenon flashlamp system and (2) time resolution in the
millisecond range with moderate repetition rates. Advice received from:
The National Institutes of Health, March 29, 1996.
Docket Number: 96-045. Applicant: Monell Chemical Senses Center,
Philadelphia, PA 19104-3308. Instrument: Xenon Flashlamp System,
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Model SX-10. Manufacturer: Hi-Tech Scientific, United Kingdom. Intended
Use: See notice at 61 FR 28175, June 4, 1996. Reasons: The foreign
instrument provides: (1) a high voltage power supply integrated and
coupled to a xenon flashlamp, (2) UV antireflection optics and (3)
flash photolysis and spectrophotometric capabilities. Advice received
from: The National Institutes of Health, June 10, 1996.
Docket Number: 96-051. Applicant: Yale University School of
Medicine, New Haven, CT 06520-8002. Instrument: Free-Flow
Electrophoresis Device, Model OCTOPUS PZE. Manufacturer: Dr. Weber,
GmbH, Germany. Intended Use: See notice at 61 FR 30220, June 14, 1996.
Reasons: The foreign instrument provides: (1) high resolution focusing
with short throughput times and (2) a fractionation chamber for
simultaneous collection of 96 samples. Advice received from: The
National Institutes of Health, June 11, 1996.
Docket Number: 96-057. Applicant: University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
52242. Instrument: Mass Spectrometer, Model VG AutoSpec. Manufacturer:
Micromass, United Kingdom. Intended Use: See notice at 61 FR 30221,
June 14, 1996. Reasons: The foreign instrument provides: (1) high
sensitivity and resolving power, continuously variable to 60 000 (10%
valley definition) in EI mode, (2) extended mass range to 5000 Daltons
at 8keV ion energy and (3) linked scanning capability. Advice received
from: The National Institutes of Health, June 11, 1996.
The National Institutes of Health advises in its memoranda 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. 96-20933 Filed 8-15-96; 8:45 am]
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