[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 47 (Tuesday, March 11, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Page 11156]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-6040]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, et al.; 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 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 Numbers: 96-075, 96-076R and 96-077. Applicant: University 
of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801. Instrument: Eye 
Tracking System, Model EYELINK. Manufacturer: SR Research Ltd., Canada. 
Intended Use: See notice at 61 FR 41774, August 12, 1996. Reasons: The 
foreign instruments provide a sampling rate of 250 Hz and spatial 
resolution of eye position to 0.005 degree without requiring use of 
head restraint. Advice received from: National Institutes of Health, 
December 17, 1996 and January 30, 1997.
    Docket Number: 96-123. Applicant: William Marsh Rice University, 
Houston, TX 77005. Instrument: Stopped-Flow Fluorescence 
Spectrophotometer, Model SX.18MV. Manufacturer: Applied Photophysics 
Ltd., United Kingdom. Intended Use: See notice at 62 FR 979, January 7, 
1997. Reasons: The foreign instrument provides: (1) An instrumental 
``deadtime'' of 1.2 msec permitting measurement of reaction rates up to 
1500 sec-1 and (2) sequential mixing capability. Advice received 
from: National Institutes of Health, December 16, 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. 97-6040 Filed 3-10-97; 8:45 am]
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