[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 39 (Tuesday, February 27, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 7240-7241]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-4421]



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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Rutgers 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: 95-101. Applicant: Rutgers University, Piscataway, 
NJ 08855. Instrument: Chlorophyll Fluorescence Measuring System, Model 
PAM 101. Manufacturer: Walz (Mess- und Regeltechnik), Germany. Intended 
Use: See notice at 60 FR 57222, November 14, 1995. Reasons: The foreign 
instrument provides: (1) fluorescence rate measurements under sunlight 
conditions, (2) flash trigger control variable between 100 msec and 10 
000 sec, and (3) high kinetic resolution at 100 Hz. Advice Received 
From: National Institutes of Health, January 29, 1996.
    Docket Number: 95-103. Applicant: University of Virginia, 
Charlottesville, VA 22906. Instrument: SIR Mass Spectrometer, Model 
OPTIMA. Manufacturer: Fisons Instruments, United Kingdom. Intended Use: 
See notice at 60 FR 58330, November 27, 1995. Reasons: The foreign 
instrument provides continuous flow gas chromatography-combustion and 
an internal precision of 0.01 per mil for 5 bar l of C02. 
Advice Received From: National Institutes of Health, January 30, 1996.
    Docket Number: 95-106. Applicant: Pennsylvania State University, 
University Park, PA 16802. Instrument: Cold Stage for Time-of-Flight 
SIMS. Manufacturer: Kore Technology, Ltd., United Kingdom. Intended 
Use: See notice at 60 FR 62390, December 6, 1995. Reasons: The foreign 
instrument provides vibrational stability to allow imaging with spatial 
resolution to 20 nm and a demountable sample holder. Advice Received 
From: National Institutes of Health, January 30, 1996.
    Docket Number: 95-110. Applicant: National Institutes of Standards 
and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD 20899. Instrument: Mass Spectrometer, 
Model 

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JMS-700. Manufacturer: JEOL, Japan. Intended Use: See notice at 60 FR 
62390, December 6, 1995. Reasons: The foreign instrument provides high 
precision measurements of the ratios of intensities of two or more ions 
from compounds eluting from capillary gas chromatography columns and 
double-focusing magnetic sector geometry with resolution to 60 000. 
Advice Received From: National Institutes of Health, January 30, 1996.
    Docket Number: 95-111. Applicant: University of Wisconsin-Madison, 
Madison, WI 53706. Instrument: Mode-locked Solid State Laser. 
Manufacturer: Microlase Optical Systems, Ltd., United Kingdom. Intended 
Use: See notice at 60 FR 62390, December 6, 1996. Reasons: The foreign 
instrument provides: (1) a resonator with passive mode-locking 
capability, (2) short pulse duration < 300 femtoseconds, and (3) 
frequency doubling to 660 nanometers. Advice Received From: National 
Institutes of Health, January 31, 1996.
    The National Institutes of Health advises in its memoranda 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. 96-4421 Filed 2-26-96; 8:45 am]
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