[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 77 (Wednesday, April 22, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Page 19899]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-10739]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration


Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 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: 98-006. Applicant: Centers for Disease Control and 
Prevention, Morgantown, WV 26505-2888. Instrument: Stereological 
Microscope System, Model BX50. Manufacturer: Olympus Denmark, Denmark. 
Intended Use: See notice at 63 FR 11870, March 11, 1998. Reasons: The 
foreign instrument provides sophisticated sampling procedures to 
achieve efficient and unbiased estimates of cell number, cell density 
and cell size for stereological characterization of 2-D and 3-D 
microscopic images. Advice received from: National Institutes of 
Health, March 5, 1998.

    Docket Number: 98-007. Applicant: University of Minnesota, 
Minneapolis, MN 55455. Instrument: 7-Channel Multi-electrode 
Manipulator, System Echorn 7. Manufacturer: Thomas Recording, Germany. 
Intended Use: See notice at 63 FR 11870, March 11, 1998. Reasons: The 
foreign instrument provides a seven-channel electrode micropositioner 
for brain cell recording during visually guided movements in monkeys. 
Advice received from: National Institutes of Health, March 6, 1998.
    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. 98-10739 Filed 4-21-98; 8:45 am]
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