[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 17 (Thursday, January 26, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Page 5165]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-2002]



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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration


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 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: 94-064R. Applicant: University of California, 
Berkeley, CA 94720. Instrument: Superconducting Solenoid. Manufacturer: 
Atomimpex, CIS. Intended Use: See notice at 59 FR 31208, June 17, 1994. 
Reasons: The foreign instrument provides: (1) a field strength of 3.0T 
in a uniform field region 60 cm long and 5 cm in radius, (2) axial 
field uniformity to  0.25%, (3) azimuth symmetric to an 
accuracy of 10-4 and (4) high vacuum integrity. Advice Received 
From: The Department of Energy, December 20, 1994.
    Docket Number: 94-127. Applicant: California Institute of 
Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125. Instrument: Telescope System. 
Manufacturer: Astrophysical Laboratory of National Tsing Hau 
University, Republic of China. Intended Use: See notice at 59 FR 59212, 
November 16, 1994. Reasons: The foreign instrument provides identical 
optical design and construction to serve as a link in an earth-circling 
chain of six telescopes to provide uninterrupted measurements of solar 
oscillation in collaborative studies of helioseismology. Advice 
Received From: The National Optical Astronomy Observatories, December 
15, 1994.
    The Department of Energy and The National Optical Astronomy 
Observatories 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 either of 
the foreign instruments.


Pamela Woods
Acting Director, Statutory Import Programs Staff
[FR Doc. 95-2002 Filed 1-25-95; 8:45 am]
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