[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 101 (Thursday, May 25, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Pages 27722-27723]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-12906]



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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

The Scripps Research Institute, 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. [[Page 27723]] 
    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: 94-149. Applicant: The Scripps Research Institute, 
LaJolla, CA 92037. Instrument: Microvolume Stopped Flow 
Spectrofluorimeter, Model SX.17MV. Manufacturer: Applied Photophysics, 
United Kingdom. Intended Use: See notice at 60 FR 3394, January 17, 
1995. Reasons: The foreign instrument provides: (1) multiple component 
mixing, (2) automatic acquisition of time-resolved emission spectra 
and, (3) 150W Xenon source covering the entire UV-VIS wavelength range. 
Advice Received From: The National Institutes of Health, March 21, 
1995.
    Docket Number: 95-007. Applicant: Ohio State University, Columbus, 
OH 43210. Instrument: Frequency Synthesizer. Manufacturer: KVARTZ 
Measuring Instruments & Systems, CIS. Intended Use: See notice at 60 FR 
9662, February 21, 1995. Reasons: The foreign instrument provides: (1) 
swept frequency over the range 118 to 178 GHz, (2) 100 Hz resolution 
and (3) output power to 25 mW for pumping and observing specific 
molecular absorptions. Advice Received From: National Institute of 
Standards and Technology, April 5, 1995 and Los Alamos National 
Laboratory, April 11, 1995.
    The National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Standards 
and Technology and Los Alamos National Laboratory advise that (1) these 
capabilities 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 W. Creel,
Director, Statutory Import Programs Staff.
[FR Doc. 95-12906 Filed 5-24-95; 8:45 am]
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