[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 187 (Wednesday, September 25, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Page 50272]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-24608]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Princeton 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.
Docket Number: 96-056. Applicant: Princeton University, Princeton,
NJ 08544-0033. Instrument: Electrical Capacitance Tomography Unit,
Model PTL 300-TP-G. Manufacturer: Process Tomography, Ltd., United
Kingdom. Intended Use: See notice at 61 FR 30221, June 14, 1996.
Reasons: The foreign instrument provides statistical description and
mapping of the spatial and temporal flow of gas-particle suspensions in
pipes. Advice received from: National Institute of Standards and
Technology, September 3, 1996.
Docket Number: 96-070. Applicant: Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139. Instrument: Compact Geotechnical
Centrifuge. Manufacturer: Chiker Technologies, United Kingdom. Intended
Use: See notice at 61 FR 39948, July 31, 1996. Reasons: The foreign
instrument provides rotation of 900 RPM to obtain high and well
controlled pressure with much smaller soil samples than possible with
conventional long-arm centrifuges. Advice received from: Department of
the Interior, September 6, 1996.
The National Institute of Standards and Technology and the
Department of the Interior 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. 96-24608 Filed 9-24-96; 8:45 am]
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