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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
 

U.S. Geological Survey WRD, 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: 94-056. Applicant: U.S. Geological Survey WRD, 
Hartford, CT 06103. Instrument: Borehole Radar System. Manufacturer: 
ABEM AB, Sweden. Intended Use: See notice at 59 FR 24691, May 12, 1994. 
Reasons: The foreign instrument provides: (1) operability in both air 
and water filled boreholes down to two inches in diameter and (2) 
directional capability permitting characterization of lithologic 
features from a single borehole. Advice Received From: The U.S. Bureau 
of Mines, June 6, 1994.
    Docket Number: 94-045. Applicant: University of Wisconsin, Madison, 
WI 53706. Instrument: Complete Reflection High Energy Electron 
Diffraction System. Manufacturer: Staib Instrumente, Germany. Intended 
Use: See notice at 59 FR 23696, May 6, 1994. Reasons: The foreign 
instrument provides: (1) operation at a high gas pressure (10-2 
torr), (2) adaptation to an existing differential vacuum pumping 
system, (3) simultaneous data acquisition on four independently 
adjustable gas lines and (4) developed and proven software for the 
above. Advice Received From: National Institute of Standards and 
Technology, June 7, 1994.
    Docket Number: 94-002. Applicant: University of Illinois at Urbana-
Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801. Instrument: ELISA Juice Extraction Presses 
w/Electronic Buffer Units. Manufacturer: Erich Pollahne, Germany. 
Intended Use: See notice at 59 FR 6621, February 11, 1994. Reasons: The 
foreign instrument provides two rollers that rotate against each other 
in opposite directions to grind, press and extract sap from plant 
material and capability to cleanse itself automatically. Advice 
Received From: National Institutes of Health, May 6, 1994.
    Docket Number: 94-009. Applicant: LSU and A&M College, Baton Rouge, 
LA 70803. Instrument: Pavement Materials Testing Apparatus. 
Manufacturer: Industrial Process Controls Ltd., Australia. Intended 
Use: See notice at 59 FR 18370, April 18, 1994. Reasons: The foreign 
instrument provides: (1) a simple pneumatic loading system under 
computer control for general purpose automated testing of highway 
materials in a university setting and (2) testing of static and dynamic 
creep, indirect tensile, confined and unconfined compression and 
flexural (beam) fatigue without reconfiguration. Advice Received From: 
The Federal Highway Administration, May 23, 1994.
    The U.S. Bureau of Mines, National Institute of Standards and 
Technology, National Institutes of Health, and The Federal Highway 
Administration 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 any of the 
foreign instruments.
Pamela Woods
Acting Director, Statutory Import Programs Staff
[FR Doc. 94-15533 Filed 6-24-94; 8:45 am]
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