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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
 

Mount Sinai Medical Center, 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 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: 93-136. Applicant: Mount Sinai Medical Center, New 
York, NY 10029. Instrument: Cytovision Ultra Analysis System. 
Manufacturer: Applied Imaging International, United Kingdom. Intended 
Use: See notice at 58 FR 63924, December 3, 1993. Reasons: The foreign 
instrument provides: (1) combined automated karyotyping and 
fluorescence in-situ hybridization (FISH) analysis and (2) high 
resolution monochrome CCD camera. Advice Received From: National 
Institutes of Health, April 21, 1994.
    Docket Number: 94-007. Applicant: Occidental College, Los Angeles, 
CA 90041. Instrument: Multi-Mixing Rapid Kinetics Accessory with 
Pneumatic Attachment, Model SFA-12MX. Manufacturer: Hi-Tech, United 
Kingdom. Intended Use: See notice at 59 FR 6621, February 11, 1994. 
Reasons: The foreign instrument provides customized compatibility with 
the flow cell holder and the data system of a Hitachi F4500 
spectrofluorimeter. Advice Received From: National Institutes of 
Health, May 6, 1994.
    Docket Number: 94-015. Applicant: Rice University, Houston, TX 
77005. Instrument: Mass Spectrometer, Model MAT 95. Manufacturer: 
Finnigan, Germany. Intended Use: See notice at 59 FR 12893, March 18, 
1994. Reasons: The foreign instrument provides: (1) resolution to 60 
000, (2) mass range to 17 500 amu and (3) scan rate to 0.1 second per 
decade. Advice Received From: National Institutes of Health, May 6, 
1994.
    Docket Number: 94-016. Applicant: Penn State University, Hershey, 
PA 17033. Instrument: Rapid Kinetics Spectrometer Accessory, Model RX 
1000. Manufacturer: Applied Photophysics, United Kingdom. Intended Use: 
See notice at 59 FR 12893, March 18, 1994. Reasons: The foreign 
instrument may be used with a circular dichroism spectrometer. Advice 
Received From: National Institutes of Health, May 6, 1994.
    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.
Pamela Woods,
Acting Director, Statutory Import Programs Staff.
[FR Doc. 94-14698 Filed 6-15-94; 8:45 am]
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