[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 62 (Friday, March 31, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Page 16618]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-8007]



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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

The Scripps Research Institute, 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: 94-102. Applicant: The Scripps Research Institute, 
La Jolla, CA 92037. Instrument: NMR Spectrometer, Model Avance DMX750. 
Manufacturer: Bruker, Germany. Intended Use: See notice at 59 FR 49645, 
September 29, 1994. Reasons: The foreign instrument provides: (1) 
superior magnetic field homogeneity and stability with a smaller fringe 
field and (2) better lock stability (uses digital design), spectral 
fidelity (uses digital filters) and pulsed field gradient performance 
(uses 3-axis gradient probe). Advice Received From: The National 
Institutes of Health, January 9, 1995.
    Docket Number: 94-112. Applicant: Department of Veterans Affairs 
Medical Center, Kansas City, MO 64128. Instrument: Microvolume Stopped 
Flow Spectrometer, Model SX.17MV. Manufacturer: Applied Photophysics 
Ltd., United Kingdom. Intended Use: See notice at 59 FR 52957, October 
20, 1994. Reasons: The foreign instrument provides: (1) repetitive, 
single-shot operation providing wavelength dependent time resolved 
spectra at a rate of 100 000 per second, (2) sub-millisecond dead time 
and (3) sensitivity to signals <.02AV. Advice Received From: The 
National Institutes of Health, January 9, 1995.
    Docket Number: 94-140. Applicant: Penn State University, University 
Park, PA 16802. Instrument: Electron Gun for Reflection Electron 
Diffraction. Manufacturer: Staib Instruments, Germany. Intended Use: 
See notice at 59 FR 66941, December 28, 1994. Reasons: The foreign 
accessory provides capability to change the angle of incidence of a 
high energy electron beam electronically, without affecting the beam's 
position on the sample surface, in a molecular beam epitaxy system 
using RHEED. Advice Received From: The Center for Telecommunications 
Research, National Science Foundation, February 9, 1995.
    Docket Number: 94-144. Applicant: University of Illinois at Urbana-
Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801. Instrument: Gas Composition Analyzer, 
Model Epison II. Manufacturer: Thomas Swan, United Kingdom. Intended 
Use: See notice at 60 FR 442, January 4, 1995. Reasons: The foreign 
instrument provides: (1) non-invasive control of gas mixture ratios in 
a chemical vapor deposition (CVD) system using a unique ultrasonic 
technique requiring no physical contact with the gas stream and (2) 
compatibility and sharing of control software with an existing CVD 
system. Advice Received From: The Center for Interfacial Engineering, 
National Science Foundation, February 9, 1995.
    The National Institutes of Health and the National Science 
Foundation 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. 95-8007 Filed 3-30-95; 8:45 am]
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