The laboratory has a wide range of special equipment and sophisticated instrumentation found in an analytical chemistry laboratory. Major equipment includes:

(1) Gas Chromatographs, (a) Perkin-Elmer Model 900, (b) Packard Model 7400;
(2) Infrared Spectrophotometers, (a) Perkin-Elmer 457, (b) Perkin-Elmer 621;
(3) Ultraviolet Spectrophotometer, Cary Model 14 (presently being acquired);
(4) Fluorescence Spectrophotometer, Perkin-Elmer MPF 2A;

(5) Polarizing Microscopes, (a) one Leitz-Ortholux (complete) 512151-Leitz Orthomat Camera 543060, (b) two Bausch & Lomb monocular polarizing, (c) two Zeiss monocular/binocular polarizing, (d) one Bausch & Lomb-vertical illuminator, monocular polarizing, (e) one Bausch & Lomb-monocular polarizing;

(6) X-Ray Diffraction Spectrophotometer, Norelco (complete), DeBye-Sherer camera 52207.

In fiscal year 1970, the laboratory plans to obtain: (1) Nuclear Magnetic
Resonance Spectrophotometer; (2) Mass Spectrometer; (3) X-Ray Fluorescence
Equipment.

9. COMMENT AND PUBLICATION REFERENCES:

The Bureau's Regional Laboratories are at the following locations:

4. 450 Golden Gate Avenue, Box 36075, Room 8450, San Francisco, California 94102

The resources of this laboratory and the Regional laboratories are limited to duly constituted State, county and municipal law enforcement agencies and other Federal agencies that do not have laboratories.

Assistance can be obtained by letter request (in duplicate) addressed to the appropriate BNDD Regional Laboratory.

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Approximately $140,000 was one time cost of equipment and instrumentation.

Department of Commerce

Has responsibility of conducting and supporting research on long-range problems of measurement of social and economic phenomena in censuses and surveys.

Conducts experiments to estimate the effects of response errors in analyzing census data.

Conducts experiments to estimate the effect of coders on the variability of census statistics.

By analyzing basic data, tries to formulate causes for the bias in statistics gathered from rotating panels and formulate methods to reduce these biases.

Produces mathematical models to investigate the problem of linking records from two files or lists and formulates optimum decision rules.

(12-01 Mathematical Sciences

Mathematics and Statistics)

A. ADDITIONAL COSATI CODES:

SURVEY OF FEDERAL GOVERNMENT RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT LABORATORIES

Conducted By THE NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION For The

FEDERAL COUNCIL FOR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

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9. COMMENT AND PUBLICATION REFERENCES:

NONE