[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 191 (Friday, October 2, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Page 53013]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-26486]



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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration


Finch University of Health Sciences, 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, NW, Washington, DC.
    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: 98-037. Applicant: Finch University of Health 
Sciences, North Chicago, IL 60064-3095. Instrument: Electrode Puller, 
Model PD-5. Manufacturer: Narishige Co., Japan. Intended Use: See 
notice at 63 FR 44608, August 20, 1998. Reasons: The foreign instrument 
provides formation of double-barreled electrodes from independent glass 
capillaries to minimize a coupling between the barrels. Advice received 
from: National Institutes of Health, August 17, 1998.
    Docket Number: 98-038. Applicant: The Salk Institute for Biological 
Studies, La Jolla, CA 92037. Instrument: Diffractometer and X-Ray 
Generator, Models DIP-2030H and MO6X. Manufacturer: MAC Science Co., 
Ltd., Japan. Intended Use: See notice at 63 FR 44609, August 20, 1998. 
Reasons: The foreign instrument provides visualization of the three-
dimensional structure of biological macromolecules using x-ray 
crystallography with a rotating anode x-ray source. Advice received 
from: National Institutes of Health, August 17, 1998.
    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. 98-26486 Filed 10-1-98; 8:45 am]
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