[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 103 (Thursday, May 29, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 29103-29104]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-14079]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration


University of New Orleans, 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

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instruments described below, for such purposes as each is intended to 
be used, is being manufactured in the United States.
    Docket Number: 97-014. Applicant: University of New Orleans, New 
Orleans, LA 70148. Instrument: Mass Spectrometer, Model VG AutoSpec. 
Manufacturer: Micromass, Inc., United Kingdom. Intended Use: See notice 
at 62 FR 13600, March 21, 1997. Reasons: The foreign instrument 
provides a signal-to-noise ratio of 800:1 for the methyl stearate ion 
at m/z 298 and a continuously variable scan rate of 0.1 to 1000 s/
decade. Advice received from: National Institutes of Health, March 19, 
1997.
    Docket Number: 97-022. Applicant: Rutgers University, Piscataway, 
NJ 08855. Instrument: 20/20 SI Mass Spectrometer. Manufacturer: Europa 
Scientific, United Kingdom. Intended Use: See notice at 62 FR 15657, 
April 2, 1997. Reasons: The foreign instrument provides: (1) A magnetic 
sector analyzer with three Faraday collectors, (2) sensitivity of 1100 
molecules of CO2 per mass 44 ion and (3) resolution = 125 
(N2) 10% valley definition. Advice received from: National 
Institutes of Health, March 19, 1997.
    The National Institutes of Health advises in its memoranda that (1) 
the capabilities of each of the foreign instruments described above are 
pertinent to each applicant's intended purpose and (2) it knows 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. 97-14079 Filed 5-28-97; 8:45 am]
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