Texas A&M University, et al.; Notice of Consolidated Decision on Applications for Duty-Free Entry of Scientific Instruments

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Texas A&M University, 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: 94-012. Applicant: Texas A&M University, College

Station, TX 77843-2126. Instrument: Gas Isotope Ratio Mass

Spectrometer, Model Delta S. Manufacturer: Finnigan MAT, Germany.

Intended Use: See notice at 59 FR 9964, March 2, 1994. Reasons: The

foreign instrument provides an absolute sensitivity of 1500 molecules

of CO2 per mass 44 ion and a multi-element collector with 6

Faraday cups. Advice Received From: National Institutes of Health, May

31, 1994.

Docket Number: 94-021. Applicant: University of Colorado at

Boulder, Boulder, CO 80309-0215. Instrument: Cryostream Nitrogen Gas

Cooler. Manufacturer: Oxford Cryosystems, United Kingdom. Intended Use:

See notice at 59 FR 13706, March 23, 1994. Reasons: The foreign

instrument provides: (1) a constant cold N2 flow rate which is

matched to the velocity of an annulus of dry air and (2) temperature

control to 0.1 deg.C. Advice Received From: National

Institutes of Health, May 31, 1994.

Docket Number: 94-026. Applicant: University of North Carolina at

Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3290. Instrument: High Resolution

Sector Mass Spectrometer, Model MAT 900. Manufacturer: Finnigan MAT,

Germany. Intended Use: See notice at 59 FR 13706, March 23, 1994.

Reasons: The foreign instrument provides: (1) mass range to 10 000 at

full acceleration in voltage (2) resolution to 60 000 and (3) scan rate

to 0.3 seconds per decade. Advice Received From: National Institutes of

Health, May 31, 1994.

Docket Number: 94-034. Applicant: University of California, Davis,

CA 95616. Instrument: SIR Mass Spectrometer, Model OPTIMA.

Manufacturer: Fisons Instruments, United Kingdom. Intended Use: See

notice at 59 FR 16188, April 6, 1994. Reasons: The foreign instrument

provides: (1) an internal precision of 0.01 per mil for 100 bar

l samples of CO2 and N2 and (2) sensitivity to 1100

molecules of CO2 per mass 44 ion. Advice Received From: National

Institutes of Health, May 31, 1994.

Docket Number: 94-036. Applicant: University of California of Santa

Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA 95064. Instrument: Mass Spectrometer, Model

OPTIMA. Manufacturer: Fisons Instruments, United Kingdom. Intended Use:

See notice at 59 FR 16188, April 6, 1994. Reasons: The foreign

instrument provides: (1) an internal precision of 0.01 per mil for 100

bar l samples of CO2 and (2) three Faraday collectors.

Advice Received From: National Institutes of Health, May 31, 1994.

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.

Pamela Woods

Acting Director, Statutory Import Programs Staff

[FR Doc. 94-17015 Filed 7-13-94; 8:45 am]

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