[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 169 (Thursday, August 29, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Page 45401]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-22118]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Lehigh University, et al.; Notice of Consolidated Decision on 
Application for Duty-Free Entry of Scientific Instrument

    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 AM and 5:00 PM in Room 4211, U.S. Department of 
Commerce, 14th and Constitution Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C.
    Docket Number: 96-036. Applicant: Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA 
18015. Instrument: Automatic Sample Manipulator. Manufacturer: Scienta 
Instruments, AB, Sweden. Intended Use: See notice at 61 FR 28176, June 
4, 1996. Advice received from: National Institutes of Health, April 22, 
1996.

    Docket Number: 96-037. Applicant: Massachusetts Institute of 
Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139. Instrument: Microprobe Laser Ablation 
System. Manufacturer: VG Fisons, United Kingdom.

    Docket Number: 96-043. Applicant: The University of Chicago, 
Chicago, IL 60637. Instrument: Autosampler, Model A200S. Manufacturer: 
Finnigan Corp., Germany. Intended Use: See notice at 61 FR 28175. 
Advice received from: National Institutes of Health, June 10, 1996.

    Docket Number: 96-052. Applicant: North Carolina State University, 
Raleigh, NC 27695-7212. Instrument: ISOCMS Accessory for Microanalyzer. 
Manufacturer: CAMECA Instruments, France. Intended Use: See notice at 
61 FR 30220, June 14, 1996. Advice received from: National Institutes 
of Health, June 11, 1996.

    Docket Number: 96-061. Applicant: University of Hawaii, Manoa, 
Honolulu, HI 96822. Instrument: Individual Acid Bath Carbonate Device. 
Manufacturer: Finnigan MAT, Germany. Intended Use: See notice at 61 FR 
33902, July 1, 1996. Advice received from: National Institutes of 
Health, July 23, 1996.

    Comments: None received. Decision: Approved. No instrument of 
equivalent scientific value to the foreign instruments, for the 
purposes for which the instruments are intended to be used, is being 
manufactured in the United States. Reasons: These are compatible 
accessories for instruments previously imported for the use of the 
applicants. In each case, the instrument and accessory were made by the 
same manufacturer. The National Institutes of Health advises that the 
accessories are pertinent to the intended uses and that it knows of no 
comparable domestic accessories.
    We know of no domestic accessories which can be readily adapted to 
the previously imported instruments.
Frank W. Creel,
Director, Statutory Import Programs Staff.
[FR Doc. 96-22118 Filed 8-28-96; 8:45 am]
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