[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 216 (Wednesday, November 6, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Page 57397]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-28553]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

University of California, 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: 96-091. Applicant: University of California, San 
Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093-0931. Instrument: Digital Sleep Recorder, 
Model VitaPort 2. Manufacturer: TEMEC Instruments BV, The Netherlands. 
Intended Use: See notice at 61 FR 49113, September 18, 1996. Reasons: 
The foreign instrument provides: (1) electronic measurements of 
electrophysical (e.g. EEG and EOG) and cardiorespiratory (e.g. ECG and 
RIP-THOR) parameters and (2) minimized weight, power consumption and 
physical dimensions appropriate for space flight. Advice received from: 
National Institutes of Health, September 10, 1996.
    Docket Number: 96-092. Applicant: University of Pittsburgh Medical 
Center, Pittsburgh, PA 15213-2582. Instrument: Microvolume Stopped-Flow 
Spectrometer, Model SX.18MV. Manufacturer: Applied Photophysics, Ltd., 
United Kingdom. Intended Use: See notice at 61 FR 49113, September 18, 
1996. Reasons: The foreign instrument provides: (1) a vertical flow 
circuit for loading solutions of different osmolalities into its 
injection ports and (2) low temperature capability (-5 deg.C) for 
analysis of temperature sensitive yeast strains. Advice received from: 
National Institutes of Health, September 10, 1996.
    The National Institutes of Health advises in its memoranda that (1) 
the capabilities of each of the foreign instruments described above are 
pertinent to each applicant's intended purpose and (2) it knows 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. 96-28553 Filed 11-05-96; 8:45 am]
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