[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 28 (Tuesday, February 11, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Page 6215]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-3358]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 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: 96-114. Applicant: Centers for Disease Control and 
Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30341-3724. Instrument: ICP Mass Spectrometer, 
Model MAT ELEMENT. Manufacturer: Finnigan MAT, Germany. Intended Use: 
See notice at 61 FR 59417, November 22, 1996. Reasons: The foreign 
instrument provides a magnetic sector mass analyzer with sensitivity to 
detect trace amounts (to parts per quadrillion) of radionuclides in 
liquid samples. Advice received from: National Institutes of Health, 
November 25, 1996.
    Docket Number: 96-115. Applicant: Horn Point Environmental 
Laboratory, Cambridge, MD 21613. Instrument: Fluorometer. Manufacturer: 
Heinz Walz, GmbH, Germany. Intended Use: See notice at 61 FR 59417, 
November 22, 1996. Reasons: The foreign instrument provides: (1) an 
actinic intensity of up to 5000 W/m <SUP>2 and (2) detection of 
chloroplast or algal suspensions to 1 mg chlorophyll per liter. Advice 
received from: National Institutes of Health, November 25, 1996.
    Docket Number: 96-118. Applicant: The Pennsylvania State 
University, University Park, PA 16802. Instrument: Accessories for CCD 
Microscope. Manufacturer: Linkam Scientific Instruments, Ltd., United 
Kingdom. Intended Use: See notice at 61 FR 66018, December 16, 1996. 
Reasons: The foreign instrument provides: (1) automatic control of 
temperature with a range of -196 deg.C to 600 deg.C and (2) computer-
generated sample imaging with video text overlay on data images for 
sample identification and recording of operating parameters. Advice 
received from: U.S. Geological Survey, January 8, 1997.
    The National Institutes of Health and the U.S. Geological Survey 
advise that (1) the capabilities of each of the foreign instruments 
described above are pertinent to each applicant's intended purpose and 
(2) they know 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. 97-3358 Filed 2-10-97; 8:45 am]
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