[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 150 (Friday, August 2, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Page 40407]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-19731]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Mississippi 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: 95-088R. Applicant: Mississippi State University, 
Mississippi State, MS 37962. Instrument: Stopped-Flow Spectrometer, 
Model SX.17MV. Manufacturer: Applied Photophysics Ltd., United Kingdom. 
Intended Use: See notice at 60 FR 54337, October 23, 1995. Reasons: The 
foreign instrument provides a fiber optic light guide interface 
permitting sample illumination within the confines of an inert 
atmosphere glove box. Advice received from: The National Institutes of 
Health, April 15, 1996.
    Docket Number: 95-114R. Applicant: Research Triangle Institute, 
Research Triangle Park, NC 27709. Instrument: (2) Mass Spectrometers, 
Model PlasmaQuad 2. Manufacturer: Fisons Instruments, Inc., United 
Kingdom. Intended Use: See notice at 60 FR 64157, December 14, 1995. 
Reasons: The foreign instrument provides a detection limit of less than 
1 ppt for lead and detection limits less than 10 ppt for arsenic and 
selenium. Advice received from: The National Institutes of Health, June 
10, 1996.
    Docket Number: 96-032. Applicant: University of California, Santa 
Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9510. Instrument: Stopped-Flow 
Spectrophotometer, Model SX.18MV. Manufacturer: Applied Photophysics 
Ltd., United Kingdom. Intended Use: See notice at 61 FR 28176, June 4, 
1996. Reasons: The foreign instrument provides sequential mixing and 
complete anaerobic operation. 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 scientific value to any of the 
foreign instruments.
Frank W. Creel,
Director, Statutory Import Programs Staff.
[FR Doc. 96-19731 Filed 8-01-96; 8:45 am]
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