[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 91 (Monday, May 12, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 25923-25924]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-12392]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration


Oregon Graduate Institute of Science and Technology, 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 Number: 96-141. Applicant: Oregon Graduate Institute of 
Science and Technology, Portland, OR 97291-1000. Instrument: Stopped-
Flow Spectrometer, Model SX.18MV. Manufacturer: Applied Photophysics, 
Ltd., United Kingdom. Intended Use: See notice at 62 FR 5619, February 
6, 1997. Reasons: The foreign instrument provides: (1) Multimixing 
capability, (2) a deadtime of 1.2 ms permitting analysis of reaction 
rates to 1500 s-1 and (3) a photo-diode array detector. 
Advice received from: National Institutes of Health, March 19, 1997.
    Docket Number: 97-017. Applicant: University of California, San 
Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093-0931. Instrument: Sleep Recorder, Model 
Vitaport 2. Manufacturer: TEMEC Instruments BV, The Netherlands. 
Intended Use: See notice at 62 FR 13600, March 21, 1997. 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

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space flight. Advice received from: National Institutes of Health, 
March 19, 1997.
    Docket Number: 97-020. Applicant: University of Texas at Austin, 
Port Aransas, TX 78373. Instrument: IR Mass Spectrometer, Model 
DELTAplus. Manufacturer: Finnigan MAT, Germany. Intended 
Use: See notice at 62 FR 13600, March 21, 1997. Reasons: The foreign 
instrument provides: (1) A magnetic sector analyzer with stigmatic 
focusing, (2) internal precision of 0.006 (2) per 
CO2 ion and (3) absolute sensitivity of 1500 molecules 
CO2 per mass 44 ion at the collector. 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. 97-12392 Filed 5-9-97; 8:45 am]
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