[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 13 (Tuesday, January 21, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Page 3004]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-1394]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration


University of Connecticut Health Center, 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, NW., Washington, DC.
    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: 96-110. Applicant: University of Connecticut Health 
Center, Farmington, CT 06030-3505. Instrument: High Intensity Xenon 
Flashlamp, Model XF-10. Manufacturer: Hi-Tech Ltd., United Kingdom. 
Intended Use: See notice at 61 FR 57397, November 6, 1996. Reasons: The 
foreign instrument provides: (1) a three-lens quartz condensor, (2) a 
flash repetition rate, variable from 0.05-10Hz and (3) pulse length, 
variable from 400-1500ns. Advice received from: The National Institutes 
of Health, November 22, 1996.
    Docket Number: 96-111. Applicant: University of North Carolina at 
Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3270. Instrument: 4 each Operant 
Boxes with 9-Hole Nosepoke Wall. Manufacturer: Paul Fray Ltd., United 
Kingdom. Intended Use: See notice at 61 FR 57397, November 6, 1996. 
Reasons: The foreign instrument provides: (1) a 9-hole nosepoke panel 
to permit randomized positioning of stimuli in a 5-choice serial 
reaction time task for rats and (2) 4.0 cm-deep ports to minimize 
undesirable head orientation. Advice received from: The National 
Institutes of Health, November 22, 1996.
    Docket Number: 96-112. Applicant: Harvard University, Boston, MA 
02115. Instrument: Stopped-Flow Spectrometer, Model SX.18MV. 
Manufacturer: Applied Photophysics Ltd., United Kingdom. Intended Use: 
See notice at 61 FR 57397, November 6, 1996. Reasons: The foreign 
instrument provides measurement of small-sample enzyme/substrate 
reactions at temperatures as low as -5 deg. C. Advice received from: 
The National Institutes of Health, November 22, 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 any of the 
foreign instruments.
Frank W. Creel,
Director, Statutory Import Programs Staff.
[FR Doc. 97-1394 Filed 1-17-97; 8:45 am]
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