[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 232 (Monday, December 4, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Pages 62072-62073]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-29363]



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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Miami University, 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.

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    Docket Number: 94-145R. Applicant: Miami University, Oxford, OH 
45056. Instrument: Cryostage. Manufacturer: Linkham Scientific 
Instruments, Ltd., United Kingdom. Intended Use: See notice at 60 FR 
442, January 4, 1995. Reasons: The foreign instrument provides: (1) an 
on-line video image analysis system with ability to perform 
calibrations, line measurements, angle measurements and circle area 
measurements, (2) minimum cooling/warming rate of 0.01 deg.C/min and 
(3) a nitrogen purge chamber surrounding the cryostage and sample. 
Advice Received From: National Institutes of Health, September 21, 
1995.
    Docket Number: 95-012. Applicant: University of California, 
Berkeley, CA 94720-4767. Instrument: Electron Microprobe, Model SX50. 
Manufacturer: Cameca, France. Intended Use: See notice at 60 FR 16618, 
March 31, 1995. Reasons: The foreign instrument provides: (1) a co-
axial high resolution light optical microscope, (2) multiple vertically 
mounted wave length dispersive spectrometers with Rowland circle radius 
of 160mm and (3) an automated optical encoded precision stage for 
sample relocation to <0.5 microns. Advice Received From: National 
Institutes of Health, April 28, 1995.
    Docket Number: 95-055. Applicant: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH 
03755-3571. Instrument: Thermal Ionization Mass Spectrometer, Model MAT 
262/RPQ. Manufacturer: Finnigan MAT, Germany. Intended Use: See notice 
at 60 FR 39711, August 3, 1995. Reasons: The foreign instrument 
provides magnetic sector performance with an inductively-coupled plasma 
ion source for an isotope ratio sensitivity of 0.005%. Advice Received 
From: National Institutes of Health, September 22, 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 any of the 
foreign instruments.


Frank W. Creel,
Director, Statutory Import Programs Staff.
[FR Doc. 95-29363 Filed 12-1-95; 8:45 am]
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