[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 123 (Tuesday, June 27, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Pages 33189-33190]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-15611]



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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Beckman 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.
    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: 95-001. Applicant: Beckman Research Institute of the 
City of Hope, Duarte, CA 91010. Instrument: Mass Spectrometer, Model 
MAT 900. Manufacturer: Finnigan MAT, Germany. Intended Use: See notice 
at 60 FR 5166, January 26, 1995. Reasons: The foreign instrument 
provides: (1) capability of switching modes between scans based on 
results of the previous scan, (2) magnetic sector operations and (3) 
high sensitivity with electrospray. Advice Received From: National 
Institutes of Health, April 25, 1995.
    Docket Number: 95-002. Applicant: Metropolitan Water District of 
Southern California, La Verne, CA 91750. Instrument: Mass Spectrometer, 
Model Autospec. Manufacturer: Fisons, United Kingdom. Intended Use: See 
notice at 60 FR 7168, February 7, 1995. Reasons: The foreign instrument 
provides [[Page 33190]] magnetic sector design permitting both high and 
low energy MS/MS with resolution to 60 000 and accuracy to 
0.002 dalton to eliminate chemical interferences. Advice 
Received From: National Institutes of Health, April 25, 1995.
    Docket Number: 95-006. Applicant: Northwestern University, 
Evanston, IL 60208-2150. Instrument: Mass Spectrometer, Model OPTIMA. 
Manufacturer: Fisons Instruments, United Kingdom. Intended Use: See 
notice at 60 FR 9662, February 21, 1995. Reasons: The foreign 
instrument provides: (1) on-line and dual-microinlet sample preparation 
and (2) high accuracy, high precision simultaneous multi-isotope 
measurements of gaseous species. Advice Received From: National 
Institutes of Health, April 25, 1995.
    Docket Number: 95-009. Applicant: University of Texas at Austin, 
Austin, TX 78712. Instrument: Precise Range and Range-rate Equipment 
Satellite Tracking Ground Station. Manufacturer: Dornier GmbH, Germany. 
Intended Use: See notice at 60 FR 13700, March 14, 1995. Reasons: The 
foreign instrument provides: (1) a regenerative, coherent X-band 
transponder for precise range and range rate measurements and (2) an S-
band receiver for measurement of S/X-band delay difference to permit 
operation as a ground station for the ERS-2 satellite. Advice Received 
From: The Satellite Research Lab, NOAA, April 25, 1995.
    The National Institutes of Health and The Satellite Research Lab 
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.
Frank W. Creel
Director, Statutory Import Programs Staff
[FR Doc. 95-15611 Filed 6-26-95; 8:45 am]
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