[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 13 (Tuesday, January 21, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Page 3004]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-1394]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
University of Connecticut Health Center, 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, 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: 96-110. Applicant: University of Connecticut Health
Center, Farmington, CT 06030-3505. Instrument: High Intensity Xenon
Flashlamp, Model XF-10. Manufacturer: Hi-Tech Ltd., United Kingdom.
Intended Use: See notice at 61 FR 57397, November 6, 1996. Reasons: The
foreign instrument provides: (1) a three-lens quartz condensor, (2) a
flash repetition rate, variable from 0.05-10Hz and (3) pulse length,
variable from 400-1500ns. Advice received from: The National Institutes
of Health, November 22, 1996.
Docket Number: 96-111. Applicant: University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3270. Instrument: 4 each Operant
Boxes with 9-Hole Nosepoke Wall. Manufacturer: Paul Fray Ltd., United
Kingdom. Intended Use: See notice at 61 FR 57397, November 6, 1996.
Reasons: The foreign instrument provides: (1) a 9-hole nosepoke panel
to permit randomized positioning of stimuli in a 5-choice serial
reaction time task for rats and (2) 4.0 cm-deep ports to minimize
undesirable head orientation. Advice received from: The National
Institutes of Health, November 22, 1996.
Docket Number: 96-112. Applicant: Harvard University, Boston, MA
02115. Instrument: Stopped-Flow Spectrometer, Model SX.18MV.
Manufacturer: Applied Photophysics Ltd., United Kingdom. Intended Use:
See notice at 61 FR 57397, November 6, 1996. Reasons: The foreign
instrument provides measurement of small-sample enzyme/substrate
reactions at temperatures as low as -5 deg. C. Advice received from:
The National Institutes of Health, November 22, 1996.
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. 97-1394 Filed 1-17-97; 8:45 am]
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