[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 120 (Thursday, June 20, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Page 31509]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-15686]



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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

University of Albany, 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: 96-012. Applicant: University of Albany, Albany, NY 
12222. Instrument: Mass Spectrometer, Model OPTIMA. Manufacturer: 
Fisons Instruments, United Kingdom. Intended Use: See notice at 61 FR 
11614, March 21, 1996. Reasons: The foreign instrument provides: (1) A 
high sensitivity ion source yielding low H3+ ion production 
during H/D analysis, (2) an acid-bath workstation to permit 
simultaneous C:N ratio analysis and (3) a universal triple collector 
assembly consisting of three Faraday collector buckets capable of 
N2, O2, CO2 and SO2 analysis. Advice received from: 
The National Institutes of Health, March 27, 1966.
    Docket Number: 96-014. Applicant: Columbia University, Palisades, 
NY 10964. Instrument: Mass Spectrometer, Model OPTIMA. Manufacturer: 
Fisons Instruments, United Kingdom. Intended Use: See notice at 61 FR 
11614, March 21, 1996. Reasons: The foreign instrument provides: (1) A 
high sensitivity ion source yielding 1100 molecules CO2 per mass 
44 ion, (2) a universal triple collector assembly consisting of three 
Faraday collector buckets capable of N2, O2, CO2 and 
SO2 analysis and (3) a dual microinlet with automatic cold finger. 
Advice received from: The National Institutes of Health, March 28, 
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) 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 either of 
the foreign instruments.
Frank W. Creel,
Director, Statutory Import Programs Staff.
[FR Doc. 96-15686 Filed 6-19-96; 8:45 am]
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