[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 83 (Wednesday, April 30, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Page 23433]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-11172]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration


Brigham and Womens's Hospital, 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 am and 5 pm 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: 97-002, 97-003 and 97-006. Applicant: Brigham and 
Women's Hospital, Boston, MA 02115. Instrument: (3) Digital Sleep 
Recorders, Model Vitaport 2.

    Docket Number: 97-005. Applicant: Massachusetts Institute of 
Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139. Instrument: Digital Sleep Recorder, 
Model Vitaport 2. Manufacturer: TEMEC Instruments BV, The Netherlands. 
Intended Use: See notice at 62 FR 8928, February 27, 1997. Reasons: The 
foreign instrument provides 16-channel digital recording of 
polysomnographic and other physiological variables using a wireless 
monitor worn on the waist for studies of sleep and performance of 
astronauts aboard the Space Shuttle. Advice received from: National 
Institutes of Health, February 4, 1997.

    Docket Number: 97-010. Applicant: Stanford University, Stanford, CA 
94304-5119. Instrument: Ambulatory Recorder, Model Embla. Manufacturer: 
Flaga hF. Medical Service, Iceland.
    Intended Use: See notice at 62 FR 8929, February 27, 1997.
    Reasons: The foreign instrument provides ambulatory signal 
processing and recording of physiological measurements with: (1) 1.0 
V noise level at 200 Hz with an input range of 250 
mV, (2) direct measurement of 16 channels of biological signals and (3) 
user-modifiable control software. Advice received from: National 
Institutes of Health, March 19, 1997.
    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. 97-11172 Filed 4-29-97; 8:45 am]
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