[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 47 (Tuesday, March 11, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 11155-11156]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-5891]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

U.S. Geological Survey, Denver, et al.; 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 p.m. in Room 4211, U.S. Department of 
Commerce, 14th and Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, DC.
    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: 96-127. Applicant: U. S. Geological Survey, Denver, 
CO 80225. Instrument: SIR Mass Spectrometer with Automated Sample 
Peripherals, Model Optima. Manufacturer: Micromass, United Kingdom. 
Intended Use: See notice at 62 FR 2133, January 15, 1997. Reasons: The 
foreign instrument provides: (1) An absolute sensitivity of 1 mass 44 
ion per 1000 molecules of CO2!and (2) an external precision of 
0.02 for 10 bar l of CO2.
    Docket Number: 96-130. Applicant: State University of New York, 
Stony Brook, NY 11794. Instrument: Mass Spectrometer, Model 
Deltaplus.

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Manufacturer: Finnigan MAT, Germany. Intended Use: See notice at 62 FR 
2133, January 15, 1997. Reasons: The foreign instrument provides: (1) 
Analytical performance of 0.006% for \13\C and 0.012 for \18\O (both as 
CO2) and (2) analysis of samples to 50 bar l to the above 
precision.
    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 either of the foreign instruments.
Frank W. Creel,
Director, Statutory Import Programs Staff.
[FR Doc. 97-5891 Filed 3-10-97; 8:45 am]
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