[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 49 (Tuesday, March 14, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Page 13700]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-6263]



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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

University of Colorado at Boulder, 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: 94-118. Applicant: University of Colorado at 
Boulder, Boulder, CO 80309. Instrument: Microvolume Stopped-flow 
Spectrometer, Model SX.17MV. Manufacturer: Applied Photophysics, United 
Kingdom. Intended Use: See notice at 59 FR 52958, October 20, 1994. 
Reasons: The foreign instrument provides: (1) pneumatic syringe drive, 
(2) computer acquisition of time-resolved emission spectra and (3) 
analysis of samples as small as 25 l. Advice Received From: 
The National Institutes of Health, January 9, 1995.
    Docket Number: 94-120. Applicant: Northern Illinois University, 
DeKalb, IL 60115. Instrument: Microvolume Stopped-Flow 
Spectrofluorimeter, Model SX.17MV. Manufacturer: Applied Photophysics 
Ltd., United Kingdom. Intended Use: See notice at 59 FR 52958, October 
20, 1994. Reasons: The foreign instrument provides: (1) time resolution 
of 0.01 ms with 0.85 ms dead time and (2) detection of small absorbance 
changes at high absorbance values. Advice Received From: The National 
Institutes of Health, January 9, 1995.
    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 either of 
the foreign instruments.
Frank Creel
Director, Statutory Import Programs Staff
[FR Doc. 95-6263 Filed 3-13-95; 8:45 am]
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