[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 49 (Tuesday, March 14, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Page 13701]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-6259]



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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Medical College of Pennsylvania, 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: 94-109. Applicant: Medical College of Pennsylvania, 
Philadelphia, PA 19129. Instrument: High Intensity Xenon Flashlamp 
System, Model HF-10. Manufacturer: Hi-Tech Scientific, United Kingdom. 
Intended Use: See notice at 59 FR 52288, October 17, 1994. Reasons: The 
foreign instrument provides: (1) stored electrical energy to 340 J, (2) 
anti-reflection coated quartz optics for focusing and (3) optical/
electrical shielding. Advice Received From: National Institutes of 
Health, January 9, 1995.
    Docket Number: 94-114. Applicant: University of Illinois at Urbana, 
IL 61801. Instrument: Aqua-Tox-Control-Daphnia Monitor. Manufacturer: 
Kerre Umwelt Technik GmbH, Germany. Intended Use: See notice at 59 FR 
52958, October 20, 1994. Reasons: The foreign instrument provides use 
of small invertebrate organisms as rapid indicators of toxicity in 
aqueous sources. Advice Received From: National Institutes of Health, 
January 9, 1995.
    Docket Number: 94-115. Applicant: University of California, Davis, 
CA 95616. Instrument: High Intensity Xenon Flashlamp System, Model XF-
10. Manufacturer: Hi-Tech Scientific, United Kingdom. Intended Use: See 
notice at 59 FR 52958, October 20, 1994. Reasons: The foreign 
instrument provides: (1) stored electrical energy to 340 J, (2) anti-
reflection coated quartz optics for focusing and (3) optical/electrical 
shielding. Advice Received From: National Institutes of Health, January 
9, 1995.
    Docket Number: 94-119. Applicant: Howard Hughes Medical Institute, 
Houston, TX 77030. Instrument: X-Ray Diffraction Image Processor, Model 
DIP-2030. Manufacturer: Mac Science Co., Ltd., Japan. Intended Use: See 
notice at 59 FR 52958, October 20, 1994. Reasons: The foreign 
instrument provides: (1) sensitivity of 1 x-ray proton per level, (2) 
dynamic range of 10<SUP>6 and (3) measurement with pseudo - Weissenberg 
geometry. Advice Received From: National Institutes of Health, January 
9, 1995.
    The National Institutes of Health advises 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 Creel
Director, Statutory Import Programs Staff
[FR Doc. 95-6259 Filed 3-13-95; 8:45 am]
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