[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 82 (Friday, April 28, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Page 20967]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-10527]



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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Simpson College, 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: 94-033R. Applicant: Simpson College, Indianola, IA 
50125. Instrument: Rapid Kinetics Accessory, Model SFA-12. 
Manufacturer: Hi-Tech Scientific, United Kingdom. Intended Use: See 
notice at 59 FR 16188, April 6, 1994. Reasons: The foreign instrument 
provides designed capability for use in classroom demonstration of 
principles of stopped flow kinetics for reactions with half-lives of .5 
to 5 seconds.
    Docket Number: 94-071R. Applicant: University of Arkansas for 
Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR 72205-7122. Instrument: Rapid 
Kinetics Accessory, Model SFA-20. Manufacturer: Hi Tech Scientific, 
United Kingdom. Intended Use: See notice at 59 FR 31208, June 17, 1994. 
Reasons: The foreign instrument provides customized compatibility with 
the observation cell and a Hewlett Packard 8452A diode array 
spectrophotometer.

    Docket Number: 94-131. Applicant: University of Rhode Island, 
Narragansett, RI 02882-1197. Instrument: 5-sample Anticoincidence 
Multicounter System, Model GM-25-5. Manufacturer: Riso National 
Laboratory, Denmark. Intended Use: See notice at 59 FR 60607, November 
25, 1994. Reasons: The foreign instrument provides: (1) anti-
coincidence mode detection to reduce background cosmic radiation, (2) 
low-level beta counting of less than 0.2 CPM, and (3) a 5-sample 
simultaneous measurement gas-flow multicounter unit.

    Docket Number: 94-133. Applicant: Woods Hole Oceanographic 
Institution, Woods Hole, MA 02543. Instrument: Multi-Sensor Core 
Logger. Manufacturer: GEOTEK, United Kingdom. Intended Use: See notice 
at 59 FR 63762, December 9, 1994. Reasons: The foreign instrument 
provides measurements of bulk density, magnetic susceptibility, P-wave 
velocity and gamma ray absorption from extracted cores of sediment.

    Docket Number: 94-138. Applicant: Texas A&M Research Foundation, 
College Station, TX 77843. Instrument: 600M Fluorometer and 
Accessories, Model AquatrackA MKIII. Manufacturer: Chelsea Instrument, 
United Kingdom. Intended Use: See notice at 59 FR 63762, December 9, 
1994. Reasons: The foreign instrument provides: (1) chlorophyll-a 
measurements over 5 orders of magnitude using logarithmic scaling, (2) 
low power consumption and (3) deployment in seawater.

    The National Institutes of Health advises in its memoranda of 
February 16, 1995 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.


Frank W. Creel,
Director, Statutory Import Programs Staff.
[FR Doc. 95-10527 Filed 4-27-95; 8:45 am]
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