[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 186 (Thursday, September 25, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 50294-50295]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-25399]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration


University of Notre Dame, 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.

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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: 97-051. Applicant: University of Notre Dame, Notre 
Dame, IN 46556. Instrument: Mass Spectrometer, Model 
DELTAplus. Manufacturer: Finnigan, Germany. Intended Use: 
See notice at 62 FR 40334, July 28, 1997. Reasons: The foreign 
instrument provides a double-focussing magnet sector mass analyzer with 
an internal precision of 0.006 per mil for 10 bar l samples of 
CO2.
    Docket Number: 97-057. Applicant: University of Wyoming, Laramie, 
WY 82071. Instrument: Mass Spectrometer, Model Sector 54. Manufacturer: 
Micromass, Inc., United Kingdom. Intended Use: See notice at 62 FR 
41361, August 1, 1997. Reasons: The foreign instrument provides: (1) 
Motorized multiple collectors for computer-controlled alignment of 
collectors, (2) mass/energy filtering for 10 ppb abundance sensitivity, 
and (3) an ion-counting multicollector system for detection of very 
small ion beams.
    Docket Number: 97-058. Applicant: University of Miami, Miami, FL 
33149. Instrument: Mass Spectrometer, Model GEO 20-20. Manufacturer: 
Europa Scientific, United Kingdom. Intended Use: See notice at 62 FR 
41361, August 1, 1997. Reasons: The foreign instrument provides: (1) 
Sensitivity of 1000 molecules per m/z 44 ion at the collector, (2) an 
interface to an elemental analyzer, and (3) an abundance sensitivity of 
10 ppm for CO2 using dual inlet mode.
    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 any of the foreign instruments.
Frank W. Creel,
Director, Statutory Import Programs Staff.
[FR Doc. 97-25399 Filed 9-24-97; 8:45 am]
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