[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 82 (Friday, April 28, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Pages 20968-20969]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-10525]



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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

University of California, Irvine, 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: 94-130. Applicant: University of California, Irvine, 
CA 92717-1650. Instrument: Positron Emission Tomography Camera System, 
Model GE 2048. Manufacturer: General Electric, Sweden. Intended Use: 
See notice at 59 FR 60607, November 25, 1994. Reasons: The foreign 
instrument provides: (1) a detector ring diameter of 51.5 cm (for head 
only measurements), (2) interleaved imaging of 30 simultaneous slices 
in a single acquisition interval and (3) stationary or operator 
selectable wobble (1-60 RPM) modes. Advice Received From: The National 
Institutes of Health, February 16, 1995.
    Docket Number: 94-132. Applicant: The Regents of the University of 
California, Riverside, CA 92521. Instrument: Microvolume Stopped-Flow 
Spectroflourimeter, Model SX-17MV. Manufacturer: Applied Photophysics, 
Ltd., United Kingdom. Intended Use: See notice at 59 FR 63762, December 
9, 1994. Reasons: The foreign instrument provides: (1) automated stop 
syringe operation and data acquisition via 32 bit RISC-processor 
workstation, (2) log time base data acquisition, (3) high 
reproducibility of repeat measurements and (4) dead time of 
850<greek-m>s. Advice Received From: The National Institutes of Health, 
February 16, 1995.
    Docket Number: 94-136. Applicant: Iowa State University of Science 
and Technology, Ames, Iowa 50011-4050. Instrument: Servo Systems 
Experiments, Model SRV-02. Manufacturer: Quanser Consulting, Canada. 
Intended Use: See notice at 59 FR 63762, December 9, 1994. Reasons: The 
foreign instrument provides designed capability for use in academic 
laboratories to demonstrate principles related to equations of motion 
and dynamic responses in digital control system design and theory. 
Advice Received From: The National Institutes of Health, February 16, 
1995.
    Docket Number: 94-137. Applicant: University of Vermont, 
Burlington, VT 05405. Instrument: Trough, Model 611M-100. Manufacturer: 
CTC Technologies, United Kingdom. Intended Use: See notice at 59 FR 
63762, December 9, 1994. Reasons: The foreign instrument provides 
preparation of lipid monolayers for structural studies including atomic 
force microscopy. Advice Received From: The National Institutes of 
Health, February 16, 1995.
    Docket Number: 95-003. Applicant: The Pennsylvania State 
University, University Park, PA 16802-4801. Instrument: Automatic 
Grinding, Mixing, Stirring and Kneading Machines. Manufacturer: Nitto 
Kagaku Co., Ltd., Japan. Intended Use: See notice at 60 FR 9662, 
February 21, 1995. Reasons: The foreign instrument 
[[Page 20969]] provides automatic grinding and mixing of raw powders to 
high levels of uniformity and purity (99.999%) using dual crossing arms 
which rotate in opposite directions from a rotating mortar. Advice 
Received From: The National Institute of Standards and Technology, 
March 29, 1995.

    The National Institutes of Health and The National Institute of 
Standards and Technology 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. 95-10525 Filed 4-27-95; 8:45 am]

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