[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 4 (Tuesday, January 7, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 977-978]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-300]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; 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

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Constitution Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C.
    Docket Number: 96-108. Applicant: Centers for Disease Control and 
Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30333. Instrument: Mass Spectrometer, Model 
Reflex II. Manufacturer: Bruker Analytical, Germany. Intended Use: See 
notice at 61 FR 55972, October 30, 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) a data 
digitizer operating at 1.0 GHz, (2) a POSIX-compliant computer 
interface and (3) a gridless reflector design. The National Institutes 
of Health advises in its memorandum dated October 21, 1996 that (1) 
these capabilities are pertinent to the applicant's intended purpose 
and (2) it knows 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. 97-300 Filed 1-6-97; 8:45 am]
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