[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 39 (Tuesday, February 27, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 7240-7241]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-4421]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Rutgers 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: 95-101. Applicant: Rutgers University, Piscataway,
NJ 08855. Instrument: Chlorophyll Fluorescence Measuring System, Model
PAM 101. Manufacturer: Walz (Mess- und Regeltechnik), Germany. Intended
Use: See notice at 60 FR 57222, November 14, 1995. Reasons: The foreign
instrument provides: (1) fluorescence rate measurements under sunlight
conditions, (2) flash trigger control variable between 100 msec and 10
000 sec, and (3) high kinetic resolution at 100 Hz. Advice Received
From: National Institutes of Health, January 29, 1996.
Docket Number: 95-103. Applicant: University of Virginia,
Charlottesville, VA 22906. Instrument: SIR Mass Spectrometer, Model
OPTIMA. Manufacturer: Fisons Instruments, United Kingdom. Intended Use:
See notice at 60 FR 58330, November 27, 1995. Reasons: The foreign
instrument provides continuous flow gas chromatography-combustion and
an internal precision of 0.01 per mil for 5 bar l of C02.
Advice Received From: National Institutes of Health, January 30, 1996.
Docket Number: 95-106. Applicant: Pennsylvania State University,
University Park, PA 16802. Instrument: Cold Stage for Time-of-Flight
SIMS. Manufacturer: Kore Technology, Ltd., United Kingdom. Intended
Use: See notice at 60 FR 62390, December 6, 1995. Reasons: The foreign
instrument provides vibrational stability to allow imaging with spatial
resolution to 20 nm and a demountable sample holder. Advice Received
From: National Institutes of Health, January 30, 1996.
Docket Number: 95-110. Applicant: National Institutes of Standards
and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD 20899. Instrument: Mass Spectrometer,
Model
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JMS-700. Manufacturer: JEOL, Japan. Intended Use: See notice at 60 FR
62390, December 6, 1995. Reasons: The foreign instrument provides high
precision measurements of the ratios of intensities of two or more ions
from compounds eluting from capillary gas chromatography columns and
double-focusing magnetic sector geometry with resolution to 60 000.
Advice Received From: National Institutes of Health, January 30, 1996.
Docket Number: 95-111. Applicant: University of Wisconsin-Madison,
Madison, WI 53706. Instrument: Mode-locked Solid State Laser.
Manufacturer: Microlase Optical Systems, Ltd., United Kingdom. Intended
Use: See notice at 60 FR 62390, December 6, 1996. Reasons: The foreign
instrument provides: (1) a resonator with passive mode-locking
capability, (2) short pulse duration < 300 femtoseconds, and (3)
frequency doubling to 660 nanometers. Advice Received From: National
Institutes of Health, January 31, 1996.
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 any of the
foreign instruments.
Frank W. Creel
Director, Statutory Import Programs Staff
[FR Doc. 96-4421 Filed 2-26-96; 8:45 am]
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