[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 14 (Monday, January 22, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Page 1564]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-751]



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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

University of Maryland at College Park, Notice of Decision on 
Application for Duty-Free Entry of Scientific Instrument

    This decision is made 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.
    Docket Number: 95-082. Applicant: University of Maryland at College 
Park, MD 20742. Instrument: Pulsed Surface Plasma Source and Power 
Supply. Manufacturer: Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics, CIS. 
Intended Use: See notice at 60 FR 50554, September 29, 1995. Advice 
Received From: Los Alamos National Laboratory, October 25, 1995.
    Comments: None received. Decision: Approved. No instrument of 
equivalent scientific value to the foreign instrument, for such 
purposes as it is intended to be used, is being manufactured in the 
United States. Reasons: The foreign instrument provides: (1) a high 
energy negative hydrogen ion beam source, (2) beam brightness 7  x  10 
12 of A/(m rad) 2 and (3) a very low energy spread of <0.5 
eV. Los Alamos National Laboratory advises that (1) these capabilities 
are pertinent to the applicant's intended purpose and (2) it knows of 
no domestic instrument or apparatus of equivalent scientific value to 
the foreign instrument for the applicant's intended use.
    We know of no other instrument or apparatus of equivalent 
scientific value to the foreign instrument which is being manufactured 
in the United States.
Frank W. Creel,
Director, Statutory Import Programs Staff.
[FR Doc. 96-751 Filed 1-19-96; 8:45 am]
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