[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 42 (Friday, March 1, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Page 8042]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-4755]



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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

University of Hawaii, 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: 94-154R. Applicant: University of Hawaii, Honolulu, 
HI 96822. Instrument: ICP Mass Spectrometer, Model PlasmaQuad. 
Manufacturer: Fisons Instruments, United Kingdom. Intended Use: See 
notice at 60 FR 5165, January 26, 1995. Reasons: The foreign instrument 
provides a UV laser ablation sample introduction system. Advice 
Received From: National Institutes of Health, February 14, 1996.

    Docket Number: 95-115. Applicant: University of Vermont, 
Burlington, VT 05405-0082. Instrument: Ammonia Emission Measurement 
Equipment. Manufacturer: Swedish Institute of Agricultural Engineering, 
Sweden. Intended Use: See notice at 60 FR 64158, December 14, 1995. 
Reasons: The foreign instrument provides in-situ measurement of 
equilibrium concentrations of ammonia in a ventilated chamber employing 
passive diffusion samplers. Advice Received From: National Institutes 
of Health, February 5, 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 either of 
the foreign instruments.
Frank W. Creel,
Director, Statutory Import Programs Staff.
[FR Doc. 96-4755 Filed 2-29-96; 8:45 am]
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