[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 112 (Monday, June 10, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 29347-29348]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-14621]



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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

University of South Florida, 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: 95-041R. Applicant: University of South Florida, St. 
Petersburg, FL 33701. Instrument: ICP Mass Spectrometer, Model 
PlasmaQuad. Manufacturer: Fisons Instruments, United Kingdom. Intended 
Use: See notice at 60 FR 31144, June 13, 1995. Reasons: The foreign 
instrument provides: (1) sensitivity of 20 x 10<SUP>7 counts sec<SUP>-1 
ppm<SUP>-1 at mass 115, (2) an abundance sensitivity adjustable between 
5 x 10<SUP>-7 and 1 x 10<SUP>-7 at mass 23, and (3) a detection limit 
of 2 ppt for Be. Advice Received From: The National Institutes of 
Health, March 21, 1996.
    Docket Number: 95-113. Applicant: Albert Einstein College of 
Medicine, Bronx, NY 10461. Instrument: Xenon Flash Lamp. Manufacturer: 
Hi-Tech Ltd., United Kingdom. Intended Use: See notice at 60 FR 64157, 
December 14, 1995. Reasons: The foreign instrument provides: (1) high-
precision quartz optics to permit transmission rates of 97-99% in the 
UV range, (2) optocoupled isolation and shielded electronics for low-
noise, and (3) integrated lamphouse with optics and changeable filters. 
Advice Received From: The National Institutes of Health, March 28, 
1996.
    Docket Number: 95-120. Applicant: Albert Einstein College of 
Medicine, Bronx, NY 10461. Instrument: Stopped-Flow Spectrophotometer, 
Model SX.17MV. Manufacturer: Applied Photophysics Ltd., United Kingdom. 
Intended Use: See notice at 61 FR 4768, February 8, 1996. Reasons: The 
foreign instrument provides: (1) an optical diode array for collecting 
time dependent absorption spectra from single drive experiments, (2) 
full anaerobic capability, and (3) multi-tasking software with 
numerical integration capabilities. Advice Received From: The National 
Institutes of Health, March 20, 1996.
    Docket Number: 95-121. Applicant: University of California, Santa 
Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106. Instrument: RF Reactive Atom Source. 
Manufacturer: Oxford Applied Research, United Kingdom. Intended Use: 
See notice at 61 FR 6629, February 21, 1996. Reasons: The foreign 
instrument provides an ion beam with: (1) less kinetic energy to 
minimize damage to nitride thin-film substrates, and (2) less 
electromagnetic interference with associated instruments than electron 
cyclotron resonance ion sources. Advice Received From: The Naval 
Research Laboratory and a domestic manufacturer of related instruments, 
March 28, 1996.
    Docket Number: 95-125. Applicant: Pennsylvania State University, 
University Park, PA 16802. Instrument: Dilution Refrigerator/Gradient 
Magnet System, Model KelvinOx<SUP>100. Manufacturer: Oxford 
Instruments, Inc., United Kingdom. Intended Use: See notice at 61 FR 
6629, February 21, 1996. Reasons: The foreign instrument provides: (1) 
a superconducting magnet yielding up to 30T/m magnetic field gradient 
in a 8T homogeneous field, (2) 13mm access port for top-loading 
samples, and (3) IEEE interface for computer controlled operation. 
Advice Received From: The National Institutes of Health, March 20, 
1996.
    Docket Number: 95-126. Applicant: University of Florida, 
Gainesville, FL 32611-7200. Instrument: Electron Paramagnetic Resonance 
Spectrometer, Model ESP 300E-10/2.7. Manufacturer: Bruker Analytische 
Messtechnik GmbH, Germany. Intended Use: See notice at 61 FR 6630, 
February 21, 1996. Reasons: The foreign instrument provides: (1) the 
ability to perform time-resolved EPR experiments at 10 ns time-
resolution, (2) preamplifier bandwith up to 200 MHz, and (3) a 
microwave source with signal/noise of 300:1 and wide dynamic range to 
60 dB. Advice Received From: The National Institutes of Health, March 
21, 1996.
    Docket Number: 96-002. Applicant: DHHS/Food and Drug 
Administration, Jefferson, AR 72079. Instrument: ICP Mass Spectrometer, 
Model PlasmaQuad XR. Manufacturer: Fisons Instruments, United Kingdom. 
Intended Use: See notice at 61 FR 8041, March 1, 1996. Reasons: The 
foreign instrument provides a time resolved data acquisition and 
analysis system and software permitting capture of mass spectra in time 
slices. Advice Received From: The National Institutes of Health, March 
25, 1996.
    Docket Number: 96-004. Applicant: University of California at 
Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720. Instrument: Mass/Energy Spectrometer. 
Manufacturer: Hiden Analytical Ltd., United Kingdom. Intended Use: See 
notice at 61 FR 8042, March 1, 1996. Reasons: The foreign instrument 
provides a specialized mass spectrometer for diagnostic analysis of low 
energy (0-30 eV kinetic energy) and high purity (>99.9999%) activated 
nitrogen sources for the growth of GaN thin films. Advice Received 
From: The Naval Research Laboratory, March 28, 1996.
    Docket Number: 96-007. Applicant: U. S. Department of Commerce, 
NOAA, Boulder, CO 80303. Instrument: Stable Isotope Mass Spectrometer, 
Model OPTIMA. Manufacturer: Fisons Instruments, United Kingdom. 
Intended Use: See notice at 61 FR 8042, March 1, 1996. Reasons: The 
foreign instrument provides: (1) a dual viscous inlet to permit 
analysis of up to 56 samples without the need for operator 
intervention, (2) absolute sensitivity for CO<INF>2 of one mass-44 ion 
per 1000 molecules, and (3) instrument resolution (M/<greek-d>M) equal 
to or greater than 100 utilizing 10% valley definition. Advice Received 
From: The National Institutes of Health, March 27, 1996.
    Docket Number: 96-010. Applicant: University of New Mexico, 
Albuquerque, NM 87131. Instrument: Mass Spectrometer, Model VG Sector 
54. Manufacturer: Fisons Instruments, United Kingdom. Intended Use: See 
notice at 61 FR 11613, March 21, 1996. Reasons: The foreign instrument 
provides: (1) a wide aperture retarding potential filter with a 
sensitivity of 20 ppb, (2) a Daly multiplier ion-counting detector with 
additional analog mode capability, and (3) gain stability of better 
than 0.1%/hr. Advice Received From: The National Institutes of Health, 
March 27, 1996.
    Docket Number: 96-011. Applicant: National Institute of Standards 
and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD 20899-0001. Instrument: Laser Tracker, 
Model SMART 310. Manufacturer: Leica Inc., Switzerland. Intended Use: 
See notice at 61 FR 11614, March 21, 1996. Reasons: The foreign 
instrument provides an off-the-shelf servo-controlled tracking, laser-
based interferometric coordinate measuring system of proprietary design 
for remotely measuring the dimensional accuracy of large objects. 
Advice

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Received From: The National Institutes of Health, March 27, 1996.
    The National Institutes of Health, the Naval Research Laboratory, 
and a domestic manufacturer of related instruments 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. 96-14621 Filed 6-7-96; 8:45 am]
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