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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
 

University of California, 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: 94-074. Applicant: University of California, 
Livermore, CA 94551. Instrument: Mass Spectrometer. Manufacturer: 
Fisons Instruments/VG Isotech, United Kingdom. Intended Use: See notice 
at 59 FR 32418, June 23, 1994. Reasons: The foreign instrument 
provides: (1) an abundance sensitivity of 2 ppm for C or N, (2) an 
internal precision of 0.005 per mil for 3 bar l samples of 
C02 and (3) 4 Faraday collectors. Advice Received From: National 
Institutes of Health, August 22, 1994.
    Docket Number: 94-083. Applicant: University of Illinois at Urbana-
Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801. Instrument: Biological Monitor, Model 
MOSSELMONITOR. Manufacturer: Delta Consult, The Netherlands. Intended 
Use: See notice at 59 FR 38439, July 28, 1994. Reasons: The foreign 
instrument provides capability to use live mussels, clams or other 
aquatic test organisms as an early warning or monitoring pollutant 
sensor. Advice Received From: National Institutes of Health, September 
9, 1994.
    Docket Number: 94-087. Applicant: University of Maryland, 
Baltimore, MD 21201. Instrument: Robotic Micromanipulator System. 
Manufacturer: Scientific Precision Instruments, Germany. Intended Use: 
See notice at 59 FR 38439, July 28, 1994. Reasons: The foreign 
instrument provides: (1) hardware/software that can remember and repeat 
exact cell locations and (2) 20 nm spatial resolution. Advice Received 
From: National Institutes of Health, September 9, 1994.
    Docket Number: 94-088. Applicant: University of Hawaii at Manoa, 
Honolulu, HI 96822. Instrument: Portable Cholorphyll Fluorometer, Model 
PAM-200. Manufacturer: Heinz Walz GmbH, Germany. Intended Use: See 
notice at 59 FR 38585, July 29, 1994. Reasons: The foreign instrument 
provides: (1) measurement and calculation of quantum yield within 
 0.001 units, (2) LED light modulated at 600 and 20 000 Hz 
and (3) tolerance of high levels of background light. Advice Received 
From: National Institutes of Health, September 9, 1994.
    Docket Number: 94-090. Applicant: Howard Hughes Medical Institute, 
New Haven, CT 06536. Instrument: Phosphoimager X-ray Diffraction Area 
Detector. Manufacturer: MacScience Co. Ltd., Japan. Intended Use: See 
notice at 59 FR 46963, September 13, 1994. Reasons: The foreign 
instrument provides sensitivity of 1 x-ray proton per level and 
minimized measurement time using Weissenberg geometry and simultaneous 
movements of specimen rotation and film translation. Advice Received 
From: The 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. 94-27919 Filed 11-9-94; 8:45 am]
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