University of Pennsylvania, Notice of Decision on Application for Duty-Free Entry of Scientific Instrument

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

University of Pennsylvania, Notice of Decision on Application for

Duty-Free Entry of Scientific Instrument

This decision is made 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 NW., Washington, DC.

Docket Number: 95-030. Applicant: University of Pennsylvania,

Philadelphia, PA 19104. Instrument: Olfactometer, Transformation Unit

and Compressor-Vacuum-Unit, Model OM/4. Manufacturer: Heinrich

Burghart, Germany. Intended Use: See notice at 60 FR 29826, June 6,

1995.

Comments: None received. Decision: Approved. No instrument of

equivalent scientific value to the foreign instrument, for such

purposes as it is intended to be used, is being manufactured in the

United States. Reasons: The foreign instrument provides: (1) filtered

and humidified pulsed odor/air stimuli, (2) controlled stimulus

duration between 50ms and infinity, and (3) thermostabilized odorant

flow with manual or external triggering. The National Institutes of

Health advises in its memorandum dated July 11, 1995 that (1) these

capabilities are pertinent to the applicant's intended purpose and (2)

it knows of no domestic instrument or apparatus of equivalent

scientific value to the foreign instrument for the applicant's intended

use.

We know of no other instrument or apparatus of equivalent

scientific value to the foreign instrument which is being manufactured

in the United States.

Frank W. Creel,

Director, Statutory Import Programs Staff.

[FR Doc. 95-23224 Filed 9-18-95; 8:45 am]

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