[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 150 (Friday, August 2, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 40406-40407]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-19730]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Johns Hopkins 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: 95-097R. Applicant: Johns Hopkins University, 
Baltimore, MD 21218. Instrument: Stopped-Flow Spectrophotometer, Model 
SX.17MV. Manufacturer: Applied Photophysics Ltd., United Kingdom. 
Intended Use: See notice at 60 FR 57222, November 14, 1995. Reasons: 
The foreign instrument provides: (1) Sensitive fluorescence analysis, 
(2) sequential mixing capability and (3) minimum sample volume of 50 
l per shot after a volume of 100 l to prime the first 
shot. Advice received from: The National Institutes of Health, June 5, 
1996.
    Docket Number: 96-016. Applicant: University of Iowa Hospitals and 
Clinics, Iowa City, IA 52242. Instrument: [\11\C] Methylation Synthesis 
Module. Manufacturer: Nuclear Interface GmbH, Germany. Intended Use: 
See notice at 61 FR 25622, May 22, 1996. Reasons: The foreign 
instrument provides: (1) An integrated preparative chromatography unit, 
(2) automated solid phase purification and (3) radioactivity detection 
and monitoring of reactor products and chromatographic effluent. Advice 
received from: The National Institutes of Health, March 28, 1996.
    Docket Number: 96-024. Applicant: The University of Georgia, 
Athens, GA 30602-2352. Instrument: Mass Spectrometer, Model VG 
AutoSpec. Manufacturer: Fisons Instruments, United Kingdom. Intended 
Use: See notice at 61 FR 25622, May 22, 1996. Reasons: The foreign 
instrument provides: (1) Matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization 
and (2) precursor ion resolution to 10 000. Advice received from: The 
National Institutes of Health, March 29, 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

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scientific value to any of the foreign instruments.
Frank W. Creel,
Director, Statutory Import Programs Staff.
[FR Doc. 96-19730 Filed 8-01-96; 8:45 am]
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