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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
 

National Jewish Center of Immunology and Respiratory Medicine, 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: 94-082. Applicant: National Jewish Center for 
Immunology and Respiratory Medicine, Denver, CO 80206. Instrument: Mass 
Spectrometer System, Model API III ``Plus.'' Manufacturer: Perkin-Elmer 
Sciex Instruments, Canada. Intended Use: See notice at 59 FR 38439, 
July 28, 1994. Reasons: The foreign instrument provides: (1) triple 
guadrupole MS, (2) atmospheric pressure articulated ionspray, (3) HPLC 
flow rates of 5 to 1000 l per minute, (4) a protein data bank 
software and (5) more accurate analysis of leukotriene B4 and 
platelet activity factor. Advice Received From: National Institutes of 
Health, September 9, 1994.
    Docket Number: 94-084. Applicant: University of Illinois at 
Chicago, Chicago, IL 60612. Instrument: Stopped Flow 
Spectrofluorimeter, Model SX-17MV. Manufacturer: Applied Photophysics 
Limited, United Kingdom. Intended Use: See notice at 59 FR 38439, July 
28, 1994. Reasons: The foreign instrument provides a fluorescence 
detection capability of 5 x 10-10 M and 25 l minimum 
sample volume capability. Advice Received From: National Institutes of 
Health, September 9, 1994.
    The National Institutes of Health advises 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. 94-26942 Filed 10-28-94; 8:45 am]
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