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

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## Record

- **Collection:** Federal Register
- **Document type:** Uncategorized Document
- **Published:** July 14, 1994

## Text

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]
BILLING CODE 3510-DS-F

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