Applications, hearings, determinations, etc.: National Institute of Standards and Technology et al.,

[Federal Register: June 10, 1998 (Volume 63, Number 111)]

[Notices]

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

National Institute of Standards and Technology, 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: 98-009. Applicant: National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD 20899. Instrument: Neutron Velocity Selector. Manufacturer: Mirrotron Ltd., Hungary. Intended Use: See notice at 63 FR 11870, March 11, 1998. Reasons: The foreign instrument provides a monochromatic low-energy neutron beam using a time-of-flight method (``chopper'') for study of the microstructure of materials. Advice received from: Argonne National Laboratory, May 6, 1998.

Docket Number: 98-013. Applicant: North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695-7212. Instrument: Automatic Pure Bending Tester, Model NESFB2-A. Manufacturer: Kato Tech

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Co., Ltd., Japan. Intended Use: See notice at 63 FR 12452, March 13, 1998. Reasons: The foreign instrument provides simulation of fabric wear conditions using a cantilever method which calculates the bending movement over a variable arc of constant curvature. Advice received from: A domestic manufacturer of similar equipment and a university laboratory textile laboratory, May 8, 1998.

Argonne National Laboratory, a domestic manufacturer of similar equipment and a university textile laboratory 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 either of the foreign instruments. Frank W. Creel, Director, Statutory Import Programs Staff.

[FR Doc. 98-15347Filed6-9-98; 8:45 am]

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