65FR38244 Allegheny-Singer Research Institute; Notice of Decision on Application for Duty-Free Entry of Scientific Instrument
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Posting-number: Volume 65, Issue 119, Page 38244
[Federal Register: June 20, 2000 (Volume 65, Number 119)]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
Allegheny-Singer Research Institute; 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: 00-013. Applicant: Allegheny-Singer Research
Institute, Pittsburgh, PA 15212-4772. Instrument: Robot and Microplate
Manipulator, Model Q-Bot. Manufacturer: Genetix Limited, United
Kingdom. Intended Use: See notice at 65 FR 26583, May 8, 2000.
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 a unique multi-
tasking robotic system for the production, gridding and regridding of
DNA arrays with: (1) A pneumatic picking head for sampling 3500
colonies per hour, (2) ability to create high density arrays on nylon
filters, (3) replication of plates (96 or 384 wells) for distributing
clones and (4) picking of both colonies or plaques. The National
Institutes of Health advised in its memorandum of May 5, 2000 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. 00-15525 Filed 6-19-00; 8:45 am]
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