[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 177 (Wednesday, September 11, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 47884-47885]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-23106]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
The Pennsylvania State University, 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.
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Docket Number: 96-048. Applicant: U.S. Department of Agriculture,
Corvallis, OR 97331-7102. Instrument: Mass Spectrometer System, Model
Europa 20-20. Manufacturer: Europa Scientific, Inc., United Kingdom.
Intended Use: See notice at 61 FR 30220, June 14, 1996. Reasons: The
foreign instrument provides a 120 deg. extended geometry magnetic
sector analyzer and a 120 position autosampler for solid and liquid
samples. Advice received from: The National Institutes of Health, June
11, 1996.
Docket Number: 96-060. Applicant: University of Minnesota, St.
Paul, MN 55108. Instrument: EPR Spectrometer. Manufacturer: Bruker,
Germany. Intended Use: See Notice at 61 FR 33902, July 1, 1996.
Reasons: The foreign instrument provides: (1) a standard rectangular
resonation with s/n 330:1 using weak pitch under standard conditions,
(2) field accuracy better than 800 mG over the full range and (3) a
liquid helium cryostat variable between 3.8--300 K. Advice received
from: The National Institutes of Health, July 23, 1996.
Docket Number: 96-062. Applicant: University of Oklahoma, Norman,
OK 73019. Instrument: ESR Spectrometer System. Manufacturer: Bruker
Instruments, Germany. Intended Use: See notice at 61 FR 33902, July 1,
1996. Reasons: The foreign instrument provides: (1) a cavity capable of
temperature regulation to 4 deg.K by a liquid helium cooling system and
(2) acceptance of a TM 110 cavity that is optimized for aqueous
solutions in 200 flat cells. Advice received from The
National Institutes of Health, July 23, 1996.
Docket Number: 96-063. Applicant: University of Georgia, Athens, GA
30602-2022. Instrument: SIR Mass Spectrometer, Model Delta C.
Manufacturer: Finnigan MAT, Germany. Intended Use: See notice at 61 FR
33902, July 1, 1996. Reasons: The foreign instrument provides: (1)
sensitivity of 1500 molecules CO2 per mass 44 ion under He flow
conditions, (2) a viscous flow dual gas inlet and (3) a multi-element
multiple collector system with 6 Faraday cups for \13\C, \15\N, \18\O
and \34\S analysis. Advice received from: The National Institutes of
Health, July 23, 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) it knows 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. 96-23106 Filed 9-10-96; 8:45 am]
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