[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 160 (Friday, August 16, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Page 42590]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-20934]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 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: 96-019. Applicant: University of Illinois at Urbana-
Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801. Instrument: Stopped-Flow Reaction 
Analyser, Model SX.17MV. Manufacturer: Applied Photophysics Ltd., 
United Kingdom. Intended Use: See notice at 61 FR 25622, May 22, 1996. 
Reasons: The foreign instrument provides simultaneous measurements 
across the entire white-light spectrum with high beam stability using a 
diode array detector.
    Docket Number: 96-038. Applicant: Purdue University, West 
Lafayette, IN 47907. Instrument: Stopped-Flow Fluorimeter, Model 
SX.17MV. Manufacturer: Applied Photophysics Ltd., United Kingdom. 
Intended Use: See notice at 61 FR 28177, June 4, 1996. Reasons: The 
foreign instrument provides automated multiple mixing using a 4-syringe 
drive unit under computer control.
    Docket Number: 96-039. Applicant: Columbia University, Lamont-
Doherty Observatory, Palisades, NY 10964-8000. Instrument: Mass 
Spectrometer, Model VG 5400. Manufacturer: Fisons Instruments, United 
Kingdom. Intended Use: See notice at 61 FR 28177, June 4, 1996. 
Reasons: The foreign instrument provides (1) a low background count 
rate at mass 36 (less than 5 x 10-14 cc STP) and (2) a desorption 
rate less than 10-17 cc STP/min of 40Ar.
    Docket Number: 96-040. Applicant: Washington University, St. Louis, 
MO 63130-4899. Instrument: ICP Mass Spectrometer, Model ELEMENT. 
Manufacturer: Finnigan MAT, Germany. Intended Use: See notice at 61 FR 
28177, June 4, 1996. Reasons: The foreign instrument provides a 
magnetic sector analyzer with resolution to 7500 for precise and 
accurate low level (sub ppb) measurements of the transition elements.
    Docket Number: 96-042. Applicant: University of Kansas, Lawrence, 
KS 66045. Instrument: Mass Spectrometer, Model PlasmaQuad XS. 
Manufacturer: Fisons Instruments, Inc., United Kingdom. Intended Use: 
See notice at 61 FR 28177, June 4, 1996. Reasons: The foreign 
instrument provides: (1) sub ppt detection limits for Li, Cs, Pb, U and 
In, (2) sensitivity >20 Mcps/ppm for heavy elements and (3) UV laser 
ablation capability.
    The capabilities of each of the foreign instruments described above 
are pertinent to each applicant's intended purposes. We know of no 
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. 96-20934 Filed 8-15-96; 8:45 am]
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