[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 119 (Tuesday, June 20, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Page 38244]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-15525]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration


Allegheny-Singer Research Institute; Notice of Decision on 
Application for Duty-Free Entry of Scientific Instrument

    This decision is made 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.
    Docket Number: 00-013. Applicant: Allegheny-Singer Research 
Institute, Pittsburgh, PA 15212-4772. Instrument: Robot and Microplate 
Manipulator, Model Q-Bot. Manufacturer: Genetix Limited, United 
Kingdom. Intended Use: See notice at 65 FR 26583, May 8, 2000.
    Comments: None received. Decision: Approved. No instrument of 
equivalent scientific value to the foreign instrument, for such 
purposes as it is intended to be used, is being manufactured in the 
United States. Reasons: The foreign instrument provides a unique multi-
tasking robotic system for the production, gridding and regridding of 
DNA arrays with: (1) A pneumatic picking head for sampling 3500 
colonies per hour, (2) ability to create high density arrays on nylon 
filters, (3) replication of plates (96 or 384 wells) for distributing 
clones and (4) picking of both colonies or plaques. The National 
Institutes of Health advised in its memorandum of May 5, 2000 that (1) 
these capabilities are pertinent to the applicant's intended purpose 
and (2) it knows of no domestic instrument or apparatus of equivalent 
scientific value to the foreign instrument for the applicant's intended 
use.
    We know of no other instrument or apparatus of equivalent 
scientific value to the foreign instrument which is being manufactured 
in the United States.

Frank W. Creel,
Director, Statutory Import Programs Staff.
[FR Doc. 00-15525 Filed 6-19-00; 8:45 am]
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