[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 27 (Thursday, February 8, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Page 4768]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-2696]



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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

University of Wyoming, 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: 95-089. Applicant: University of Wyoming, Laramie, 
WY 82071. Instrument: Spectrometer Package including Palmtop Computer 
and Infrared Mineral Identification System. Manufacturer: Integrated 
Spectronics Pty Ltd., Australia. Intended Use: See notice at 60 FR 
54337, October 23, 1995. Reasons: The foreign instrument provides a 
digital library of reference signatures that permit rapid 
identification and/or possible matches with a target material. Advice 
Received From: National Institutes of Health, November 30, 1995.
    Docket Number: 95-090. Applicant: Department of Health & Human 
Service, Food and Drug Administration, Washington, DC 20204. 
Instrument: ICP Mass Spectrometer, Model Plasma Trace 2. Manufacturer: 
Fisons Instruments, United Kingdom. Intended Use: See notice at 60 FR 
54337, October 23, 1995. Reasons: The foreign instrument provides: (1) 
high resolution, continuously variable to 10 000 at a sensitivity of 
40MHz, (2) 2% transmission at maximum resolution, and (3) resolution of 
interfering polyatomic species. Advice Received From: National 
Institutes of Health, December 1, 1995.
    Docket Number: 95-095. Applicant: Norfolk State University, 
Norfolk, VA 23504. Instrument: Electron Paramagnetic Resonance 
Spectrometer System, Model EMX 10/2.7. Manufacturer: Bruker, Germany. 
Intended Use: See notice at 60 FR 57221, November 14, 1995. Reasons: 
The foreign instrument provides a dual mode cavity with B1 parallel to 
B0 and B1 perpendicular to B0, in the same cavity, by switching 
frequencies for measuring half field transitions in transition metal 
ion samples. Advice Received From: National Institutes of Health, 
December 4, 1995.
    Docket Number: 95-096. Applicant: Arizona State University, Tempe, 
AZ 85287-1601. Instrument: Fluorescence Measuring System, Model PAM 
101. Manufacturer: Heinz Walz GmbH, Germany. Intended Use: See notice 
at 60 FR 57222, November 14, 1995. Reasons: The foreign instrument 
provides: (1) measurement of sample fluorescence following s 
pulsed illumination, (2) fluorescence measurements independent of 
actinic illumination and (3) time resolution to 20 s. Advice 
Received From: National Institutes of Health, December 4, 1995.
    Docket Number: 95-098. Applicant: Research Foundation of SUNY at 
Albany, NY 12222. Instrument: Formaldehyde Monitor. Manufacturer: Aero 
Laser GmbH, Germany. Intended Use: See notice at 60 FR 57222, November 
14, 1995. Reasons: The foreign instrument provides: (1) a detection 
limit of <100 ppt (gas phase), (2) a noise level of <2.0% at full scale 
and (3) minimal interferences from other trace gases. Advice Received 
From: National Institutes of Health, December 4, 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) it knows 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. 96-2696 Filed 2-7-96; 8:45 am]
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