U.S. Geological Survey WRD, et al.; Notice of Consolidated Decision on Applications for Duty-Free Entry of Scientific Instruments

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

U.S. Geological Survey WRD, 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 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: 94-056. Applicant: U.S. Geological Survey WRD,

Hartford, CT 06103. Instrument: Borehole Radar System. Manufacturer:

ABEM AB, Sweden. Intended Use: See notice at 59 FR 24691, May 12, 1994.

Reasons: The foreign instrument provides: (1) operability in both air

and water filled boreholes down to two inches in diameter and (2)

directional capability permitting characterization of lithologic

features from a single borehole. Advice Received From: The U.S. Bureau

of Mines, June 6, 1994.

Docket Number: 94-045. Applicant: University of Wisconsin, Madison,

WI 53706. Instrument: Complete Reflection High Energy Electron

Diffraction System. Manufacturer: Staib Instrumente, Germany. Intended

Use: See notice at 59 FR 23696, May 6, 1994. Reasons: The foreign

instrument provides: (1) operation at a high gas pressure (10-2

torr), (2) adaptation to an existing differential vacuum pumping

system, (3) simultaneous data acquisition on four independently

adjustable gas lines and (4) developed and proven software for the

above. Advice Received From: National Institute of Standards and

Technology, June 7, 1994.

Docket Number: 94-002. Applicant: University of Illinois at Urbana-

Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801. Instrument: ELISA Juice Extraction Presses

w/Electronic Buffer Units. Manufacturer: Erich Pollahne, Germany.

Intended Use: See notice at 59 FR 6621, February 11, 1994. Reasons: The

foreign instrument provides two rollers that rotate against each other

in opposite directions to grind, press and extract sap from plant

material and capability to cleanse itself automatically. Advice

Received From: National Institutes of Health, May 6, 1994.

Docket Number: 94-009. Applicant: LSU and A&M College, Baton Rouge,

LA 70803. Instrument: Pavement Materials Testing Apparatus.

Manufacturer: Industrial Process Controls Ltd., Australia. Intended

Use: See notice at 59 FR 18370, April 18, 1994. Reasons: The foreign

instrument provides: (1) a simple pneumatic loading system under

computer control for general purpose automated testing of highway

materials in a university setting and (2) testing of static and dynamic

creep, indirect tensile, confined and unconfined compression and

flexural (beam) fatigue without reconfiguration. Advice Received From:

The Federal Highway Administration, May 23, 1994.

The U.S. Bureau of Mines, National Institute of Standards and

Technology, National Institutes of Health, and The Federal Highway

Administration 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.

Pamela Woods

Acting Director, Statutory Import Programs Staff

[FR Doc. 94-15533 Filed 6-24-94; 8:45 am]

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