[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 35 (Wednesday, February 21, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Page 6629]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-3759]



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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

North Carolina State 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.
    Docket Number: 95-094. Applicant: North Carolina State University, 
Raleigh, NC 27695-7212. Instrument: Stopped-Flow Spectrophotometer, 
Model SX.17MV. Manufacturer: Applied Photophysics, United Kingdom. 
Intended Use: See notice at 60 FR 57221, November 14, 1995. Reasons: 
The foreign instrument provides: simultaneous measurements across the 
entire white-light spectrum with high beam stability using a diode 
array detector. Advice Received From: National Institutes of Health, 
December 1, 1995.
    The National Institutes of Health advises in its memorandum 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. 96-3759 Filed 2-20-96; 8:45 am]
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