[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 204 (Wednesday, October 22, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 54831-54832]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-27994]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration


University of Virginia, 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: 97-034. Applicant: University of Virginia, 
Charlottesville, VA 22908. Instrument: Ultrascope, Model MKII. 
Manufacturer: Optech International Ltd., New Zealand. Intended Use: See 
notice at 62 FR 40334, July 28, 1997. Reasons: The foreign instrument 
provides video-enhanced imaging for teaching gross anatomy and tissue 
dissection for medical students. Advice received from: National 
Institutes of Health, September 2, 1997.

    Docket Number: 97-052. Applicant: Albert Einstein College of 
Medicine, Bronx, NY 10461-1602. Instrument: Ion Source Kit for Mass 
Spectrometer, Model ES002. Manufacturer: The Protein Analysis Company, 
Denmark. Intended Use: See notice at 62 FR 40334, July 28, 1997. 
Reasons: The foreign instrument provides low flow (nanoliters per 
minute) electrospray ionization for analysis of biopolymeric samples. 
Advice received from: National Institutes of Health, September 2, 1997.

    Docket Number: 97-056. Applicant: University of Vermont, 
Burlington, VT 05405-0084. Instrument: Roentgen Stereophotogrammetric 
Analysis System. Manufacturer: RSA BioMedical Innovations AB, Sweden. 
Intended Use: See notice at 62 FR 41361, August 1, 1997. Reasons: The 
foreign instrument provides three-dimensional measurements of the 
kinematics of skeletal or implant movements using radiographs of small 
implanted tantalum beads as markers during repeated examinations of 
body joints. Advice received from: National Institutes of Health, 
September 2, 1997.

    Docket Number: 97-059. Applicant: University of Connecticut, 
Storrs, CT 06269-2092. Instrument: Interfacial Rheometer, Model CIR-
100. Manufacturer: Camtel, Ltd., United Kingdom. Intended Use: See 
notice at 62 FR 42236, August 6, 1997. Reasons: The foreign instrument 
provides information on interfacial film strength, concentration and 
interactions, molecular unfolding and competition between molecules for 
interfacial space. Advice received from: National Institutes of Health, 
September 2, 1997.

    Docket Number: 97-060. Applicant: The Pennsylvania State 
University, University Park, PA 16802. Instrument: NMR Spectrometer, 
Model Avance DRX-600. Manufacturer: Bruker Instruments, Inc., 
Switzerland. Intended Use: See notice at 62 FR 43710, August 15, 1997. 
Reasons: The foreign instrument provides a 600-MHz magnet with sample 
temperature stability to 0.01 deg.C for study of solvation of 
macromolecules. Advice received from: National Institutes of Health, 
September 2, 1997.

    Docket Number: 97-061. Applicant: Woods Hole Oceanographic 
Institution, Woods Hole, MA 02543. Instrument: IR Mass Spectrometer, 
Model DELTA<SUP>plus</SUP>. Manufacturer: Finnigan, Germany. Intended 
Use: See notice at 62 FR 42237, August 6, 1997. Reasons: The foreign 
instrument provides a magnetic sector mass analyzer with a precision of 
1 ppt. Advice received from: National Institutes of Health, September 
2, 1997.

    Docket Number: 97-062. Applicant: Clemson University, Clemson, SC 
29634-0905. Instrument: Knee Joint Simulator. Manufacturer: UCL Ltd., 
United Kingdom. Intended Use: See notice at 62 FR 43710, August 15, 
1997. Reasons: The foreign instrument provides pneumatic control of 
simulator and meniscal knee design testing. Advice received from: 
National Institutes of Health, September 2, 1997.

    Docket Number: 97-067. Applicant: Princeton University, Princeton, 
NJ 08544-0033. Instrument: EPR Spectrometer, Model E580 FT/CW. 
Manufacturer: Bruker Instruments, Germany. Intended Use: See notice at 
62 FR 43710, August 15, 1997. Reasons: The foreign instrument provides

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operation of a frequency of 94 GHz for highest sensitivity. Advice 
received from: National Institutes of Health, September 2, 1997.

    Docket Number: 97-069. Applicant: University of California, Los 
Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1569. Instrument: Stopped-Flow Reaction 
Analyzer, Model SX.18MV. Manufacturer: Applied Photophysics Ltd., 
United Kingdom. Intended Use: See notice at 62 FR 45397, August 27, 
1997. Reasons: The foreign instrument provides sequential mixing 
(multi-mixing) capability. Advice received from: National Institutes of 
Health, September 2, 1997.

    Docket Number: 97-070. Applicant: Yale University, New Haven, CT 
06520-8202. Instrument: Signal Conditioner Processor, Model SIGMA-5-DF. 
Manufacturer: CardioDynamics BV, The Netherlands. Intended Use: See 
notice at 62 FR 45397, August 27, 1997. Reasons: The foreign instrument 
provides conductance catheter measurement of right and left ventricular 
volumes. Advice received from: National Institutes of Health, September 
3, 1997.

    Docket Number: 97-071. Applicant: Colorado School of Mines, Golden, 
CO 80401. Instrument: Mass Spectrometer, Model JMS-700T. Manufacturer: 
JEOL, Ltd., Japan. Intended Use: See notice at 62 FR 45397, August 27, 
1997. Reasons: The foreign instrument provides high resolution tandem 
mass spectrometry for study of pyrolysis products from bacteria. Advice 
received from: National Institutes of Health, September 3, 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. 97-27994 Filed 10-21-97; 8:45 am]
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