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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration

 

University of Maryland, 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: 94-051. Applicant: University of Maryland, College 
Park, Maryland 20742. Instrument: Glass Tubes with Coated Tin Oxide 
Thin Film Inside. Manufacturer: Beijing Vacuum Electronics Institute, 
China. Intended Use: See notice at 59 FR 29417, June 7, 1994. Reasons: 
The foreign instrument provides a 1-meter glass tube coated inside with 
a tin oxide thin film deposited with appropriate infirmity, 
transparency and resistivity and capable of working in a vacuum system 
to 10-9 torr for particle beam transport studies. Advice Received 
From: Los Alamos National Laboratory, November 4, 1994.
    Docket Number: 94-091. Applicant: U.S. Environmental Protection 
Agency, Athens, GA 30605-2720. Instrument: Isotope Ratio Mass 
Spectrometer, Model OPTIMA. Manufacturer: Fisons Isotopic Analysis, 
United Kingdom. Intended Use: See notice at 59 FR 46963, September 13, 
1994. Reasons: The foreign instrument provides: (1) sensitivity to 1100 
molecules of CO2 per mass 44 ion and (2) an internal precision of 
0.01 per mil for 100 bar l samples of CO2 and N2. 
Advice Received From: National Institute of Health, September 29, 1994.
    Docket Number: 94-098. Applicant: University of Georgia, Athens, GA 
30602-2556. Instrument: Mass Spectrometer, Model API-1. Manufacturer: 
PE Sciex, Canada. Intended Use: See notice at 59 FR 49645, September 
29, 1994. Reasons: The foreign instrument provides: (1) atmospheric 
pressure ionization with an inert gas curtain interface and (2) a HPLC 
effluent flow rate of 50 l per minute. Advice Received From: 
National Institute of Health, September 29, 1994.
    Los Alamos National Laboratory and National Institutes of Health 
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. 94-29613 Filed 11-30-94; 8:45 am]
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