[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 151 (Wednesday, August 6, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Page 42236]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-20638]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration


Florida State University, 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: 97-038. Applicant: Florida State University, 
Tallahassee, FL 32310. Instrument: EPR W-Band System, Model ELEXSYS. 
Manufacturer: Bruker Instruments, Germany. Intended Use: See notice at 
62 FR 32296, June 13, 1997. Reasons: The foreign instrument provides 
operation at a frequency of 95 GHz for maximal sensitivity and precise 
control of temperature over the range of 4-300 degrees Kelvin. Advice 
received from: National Institutes of Health, June 26, 1997.
    Docket Number: 97-041. Applicant: University of North Carolina at 
Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7310. Instrument: Graphite Aerosol 
Generator, Model GFG-1000. Manufacturer: Palas GmbH, Germany. Intended 
Use: See notice at 62 FR 32766, June 17, 1997. Reasons: The foreign 
instrument provides uniform particle agglomerates that are similar to 
natural soot particles with a size less that 0.1 m. Advice 
received from: National Institutes of Health, June 26, 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. 97-20638 Filed 8-5-97; 8:45 am]
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