[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 4 (Tuesday, January 7, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Page 978]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-301]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Santa Rosa Outpatient Rehabilitation 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 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: 95-080R. Applicant: Santa Rosa Outpatient 
Rehabilitation Hospital, San Antonio, TX 78229. Instrument: 3-
Dimensional Motion Analyzer System, Model VICON 370. Manufacturer: 
Oxford Metrics, Ltd., United Kingdom. Intended use: See notice at 60 FR 
48506, September 19, 1995. Reasons: The foreign instrument provides: 
(1) infra-red based light emitting diodes for marker recognition, (2) 
autoidentification of joint centers from exo-skeletal markers and body 
segment measurements and (3) exact synchronization of position and 
force data used in inverse dynamic analysis.
    Docket Number: 96-098. Applicant: University of Arizona Foundation, 
Tucson, AZ 85721. Instrument: Noble Gas Mass Spectrometer, Model 215-
50. Manufacturer: Mass Analyser Products Ltd., United Kingdom. Intended 
use: See notice at 61 FR 54156, October 17, 1996. Reasons: The foreign 
instrument provides: (1) a Baur type ion source with high sensitivity 
and linearity, (2) static-mode isotopic analysis of He, Ne, Ar, Kr and 
Xe and (3) vacuum pressure <10<SUP>-9 torr with background specified as 
mass 36 and 132 M/e 36 <5 x 10<SUP>-14 cm<SUP>3 STP and M/e 132 
<10<SUP>-15 cm<SUP>3 STP.
    Docket Number: 96-099. Applicant: University of South Carolina, 
Columbia, SC 29208. Instrument: Stopped-Flow Spectrophotometer, Model 
SX.18MV. Manufacturer: Applied Photophysics Ltd., United Kingdom. 
Intended use: See notice at 61 FR 54156, October 17, 1996. Reasons: The 
foreign instrument provides: (1) a dead volume of 310 <greek-m>l, (2) a 
single 150W xenon light source and (3) fully automated mixing 
capability under computer control.
    Docket Number: 96-107. Applicant: University of Minnesota, 
Minneapolis, MN 55455. Instrument: Three (3) Mass Spectrometers, MAT 
Models 262, ELEMENT and 252. Manufacturer: Finnigan MAT, Germany. 
Intended use: See notice at 61 FR 55973, October 30, 1996. Reasons: The 
foreign instruments comprise a suite of compatible mass spectrometers 
which employ: (1) magnetic sector mass analyzers, (2) either six 
Faraday multicollectors (models 252 and 262) or an analog/ion counting 
detector (model ELEMENT) and (3) automated preparation of samples 
resolvable to the femtogram level.
    The capabilities of each of the foreign instruments described above 
are pertinent to each applicant's intended purposes. We know of no 
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. 97-301 Filed 1-6-97; 8:45 am]
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