[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 238 (Thursday, December 11, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Page 65244]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-32445]


-----------------------------------------------------------------------

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration


University of California, 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: 97-076. Applicant: University of California, Davis, 
CA 95616. Instrument: Electron Spin Resonance Spectrometer, Model JES-
TE100. Manufacturer: JEOL, Ltd., Japan. Intended Use: See notice at 62 
FR 48811, September 17, 1997. Reasons: The foreign instrument provides 
a weak pitch signal to noise ratio of 400 to 1 and a cavity q-value of 
18 000.
    Docket Number: 97-078. Applicant: University of Missouri at Kansas 
City, Kansas City, MO 64110. Instrument: Free-Flow Electrophoresis 
Device. Manufacturer: Dr. Weber GmbH, Germany. Intended Use: See notice 
at 62 FR 52685, October 9, 1997. Reasons: The foreign instrument 
provides continuous flow electrophoresis for separation of whole cells 
from blood or other tissue fluids and separation and purification of 
subcellular organelles.
    Docket Number: 97-082. Applicant: University of Minnesota, 
Minneapolis, MN 55455. Instrument: Stopped-Flow Reaction Analyzer, 
Model SX.18MV. Manufacturer: Applied Photophysics, Ltd, United Kingdom. 
Intended Use: See notice at 62 FR 52685, October 9, 1997. Reasons: The 
foreign instrument provides completely anaerobic operation with a sub-
millisecond dead time.
    Docket Number: 97-083. Applicant: Indiana University-Purdue 
University at Indianapolis, Indianapolis, IN 46202. Instrument: 
Stopped-Flow Spectrometer, Model SX.61DX2. Manufacturer: Hi-Tech 
Scientific, United Kingdom. Intended Use: See notice at 62 FR 52685, 
October 9, 1997. Reasons: The foreign instrument provides double mixing 
stopped flow with compatibility for use by students.
    Docket Number: 97-085. Applicant: University of Minnesota, 
Minneapolis, MN 55455. Instrument: Electron Paramagnetic Resonance 
Spectrometer, Model E500. Manufacturer: Bruker, Germany. Intended Use: 
See notice at 62 FR 52685, October 9, 1997. Reasons: The foreign 
instrument provides measurement of electron spin resonance for 
characterization of paramagnetic centers in various materials, 
identification of photo- and redox-active sites and elucidation of 
reaction mechanisms.
    The National Institutes of Health advises in its memoranda dated 
November 5, 1997 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 any of the 
foreign instruments.
Frank W. Creel,
Director, Statutory Import Programs Staff.
[FR Doc. 97-32445 Filed 12-10-97; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 3510-DS-P