[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 199 (Friday, October 11, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Page 53351]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-26219]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution; Notice of Decision on 
Application for Duty-Free Entry of Scientific Instrument

    This decision is made 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.

    Docket Number: 96-067. Applicant: Woods Hole Oceanographic 
Institution, Woods Hole, MA 02543. Instrument: 5 Window Beta Detector 
with Anticoincidence, Model GM-25-5. Manufacturer: Riso National 
Laboratory, Denmark. Intended Use: See notice at 61 FR 39948, July 31, 
1996.
    Comments: None received. Decision: Approved. No instrument of 
equivalent scientific value to the foreign instrument, for such 
purposes as it is intended to be used, is being manufactured in the 
United States. Reasons: The foreign instrument provides: (1) robust 
design and portability for shipboard operation, (2) one-inch detector 
windows and (3) a background of 0.178  0.003 counts per 
minute. Several domestic manufacturers of similar equipment advise that 
(1) these capabilities are pertinent to the applicant's intended 
purpose and (2) they know of no domestic instrument or apparatus of 
equivalent scientific value to the foreign instrument for the 
applicant's intended use.
    We know of no other instrument or apparatus of equivalent 
scientific value to the foreign instrument which is being manufactured 
in the United States.
Frank W. Creel,
Director, Statutory Import Programs Staff.
[FR Doc. 96-26219 Filed 10-10-96; 8:45 am]
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