[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 187 (Wednesday, September 25, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Page 50272]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-24608]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Princeton 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: 96-056. Applicant: Princeton University, Princeton, 
NJ 08544-0033. Instrument: Electrical Capacitance Tomography Unit, 
Model PTL 300-TP-G. Manufacturer: Process Tomography, Ltd., United 
Kingdom. Intended Use: See notice at 61 FR 30221, June 14, 1996. 
Reasons: The foreign instrument provides statistical description and 
mapping of the spatial and temporal flow of gas-particle suspensions in 
pipes. Advice received from: National Institute of Standards and 
Technology, September 3, 1996.
    Docket Number: 96-070. Applicant: Massachusetts Institute of 
Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139. Instrument: Compact Geotechnical 
Centrifuge. Manufacturer: Chiker Technologies, United Kingdom. Intended 
Use: See notice at 61 FR 39948, July 31, 1996. Reasons: The foreign 
instrument provides rotation of 900 RPM to obtain high and well 
controlled pressure with much smaller soil samples than possible with 
conventional long-arm centrifuges. Advice received from: Department of 
the Interior, September 6, 1996.
    The National Institute of Standards and Technology and the 
Department of the Interior advise 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 either of 
the foreign instruments.
Frank W. Creel,
Director, Statutory Import Programs Staff.
[FR Doc. 96-24608 Filed 9-24-96; 8:45 am]
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