[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 160 (Friday, August 16, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 42590-42591]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-20933]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

University of Wisconsin, 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: 95-085R. Applicant: University of Wisconsin-Eau 
Claire, Eau Claire, WI 54702. Instrument: Absorbance and Fluorescence 
Stopped-Flow Spectrophotometer, Model SX.17MV. Manufacturer: Applied 
Photophysics Ltd., United Kingdom. Intended Use: See notice at 60 FR 
50555, September 29, 1995. Reasons: The foreign instrument provides a 
fast enough dead time for observation of rapid reactions with rate 
constants approaching 1500 reciprocal seconds. Advice received from: 
The National Institutes of Health, June 10, 1996.
    Docket Number: 96-029. Applicant: University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 
52242. Instrument: EPR Spectrometer, Model EMX 6/1. Manufacturer: 
Bruker Instruments, Germany. Intended Use: See notice at 61 FR 28176, 
June 4, 1996. Reasons: The foreign instrument provides a multifrequency 
single-channel cavity with a continuous range of modulation frequencies 
from 6 kHz to 100 kHz with a resolution of 0.01 kHz. Advice received 
from: The National Institutes of Health, March 29, 1996.
    Docket Number: 96-033. Applicant: University of Southern 
California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-2520. Instrument: Xenon Flashlamp 
System, Model XF-10. Manufacturer: Hi-Tech Scientific, United Kingdom. 
Intended Use: See notice at 61 FR 28176, June 4, 1996. Reasons: The 
foreign instrument provides: (1) a high voltage power supply integrated 
and coupled to a xenon flashlamp system and (2) time resolution in the 
millisecond range with moderate repetition rates. Advice received from: 
The National Institutes of Health, March 29, 1996.
    Docket Number: 96-045. Applicant: Monell Chemical Senses Center, 
Philadelphia, PA 19104-3308. Instrument: Xenon Flashlamp System,

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Model SX-10. Manufacturer: Hi-Tech Scientific, United Kingdom. Intended 
Use: See notice at 61 FR 28175, June 4, 1996. Reasons: The foreign 
instrument provides: (1) a high voltage power supply integrated and 
coupled to a xenon flashlamp, (2) UV antireflection optics and (3) 
flash photolysis and spectrophotometric capabilities. Advice received 
from: The National Institutes of Health, June 10, 1996.
    Docket Number: 96-051. Applicant: Yale University School of 
Medicine, New Haven, CT 06520-8002. Instrument: Free-Flow 
Electrophoresis Device, Model OCTOPUS PZE. Manufacturer: Dr. Weber, 
GmbH, Germany. Intended Use: See notice at 61 FR 30220, June 14, 1996. 
Reasons: The foreign instrument provides: (1) high resolution focusing 
with short throughput times and (2) a fractionation chamber for 
simultaneous collection of 96 samples. Advice received from: The 
National Institutes of Health, June 11, 1996.
    Docket Number: 96-057. Applicant: University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 
52242. Instrument: Mass Spectrometer, Model VG AutoSpec. Manufacturer: 
Micromass, United Kingdom. Intended Use: See notice at 61 FR 30221, 
June 14, 1996. Reasons: The foreign instrument provides: (1) high 
sensitivity and resolving power, continuously variable to 60 000 (10% 
valley definition) in EI mode, (2) extended mass range to 5000 Daltons 
at 8keV ion energy and (3) linked scanning capability. Advice received 
from: The National Institutes of Health, June 11, 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 any of the 
foreign instruments.
Frank W. Creel,
Director, Statutory Import Programs Staff.
[FR Doc. 96-20933 Filed 8-15-96; 8:45 am]
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