[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 114 (Friday, June 13, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Page 32296]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-15601]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration


Stevens Institute of Technology, 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: 96-103R. Applicant: Stevens Institute of Technology, 
Hoboken, NJ 07030. Instrument: Stopped-Flow/Scanning Spectrometer, 
Model SX.18MV. Manufacturer: Applied Photophysics Ltd., United Kingdom. 
Intended Use: See notice at 62 FR 17783, April 11, 1997. Reasons: The 
foreign instrument provides a photodiode array detector to separate a 
single pulse of white light into discrete wavelengths of 300 to 700 nm 
for study of rapid kinetic chemical reactions. Advice received from: 
National Institutes of Health, May 19, 1997.

    Docket Number: 97-019. Applicant: The Johns Hopkins University, 
Baltimore, MD 21218. Instrument: Fiber-Electrode Micromanipulator. 
Manufacturer: Thomas Recording Sci. Res., Germany. Intended Use: See 
notice at 62 FR 13600, March 21, 1997. Reasons: The foreign instrument 
provides delivery and placement of up to 7 microelectrodes of diameters 
to 25 m with state-of-the-art electrical signal processing 
across the 7 channels for study of neuronal brain functioning. Advice 
received from: National Institutes of Health, May 19, 1997.

    Docket Number: 97-024. Applicant: Stanford University/University of 
California, Berkeley, Stanford, CA 94305. Instrument: Electron Energy 
Analyzer, Model Scienta 200. Manufacturer: Scienta Instrument AB, 
Sweden. Intended Use: See notice at 62 FR 17783, April 11, 1997. 
Reasons: The foreign instrument provides highest energy resolution of 
5.0 meV with resolving power to 1500. Advice received from: National 
Institute of Standards and Technology and Brookhaven National 
Laboratory, May 27, 1997.

    Docket Number: 97-025. Applicant: Massachusetts Institute of 
Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139. Instrument: Fish Tank System. 
Manufacturer: Klaus-Jurgen Schwarz, Germany. Intended Use: See notice 
at 62 FR 17783, April 11, 1997. Reasons: The foreign instrument 
provides an optimal design for genetic analysis of early development in 
the zebra fish. Advice received from: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service 
and a private aquatic toxicology laboratory, May 23, 1997.
    The National Institutes of Health, the National Institute of 
Standards and Technology, Brookhaven National Laboratory, the U.S. Fish 
and Wildlife Service, and a private aquatic toxicology laboratory 
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 any of the 
foreign instruments.
Frank W. Creel,
Director, Statutory Import Programs Staff.
[FR Doc. 97-15601 Filed 6-12-97; 8:45 am]
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