[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 <>-9 torr with background specified as
mass 36 and 132 M/e 36 <5 x="">-14 cm3 STP and M/e 132
<>-15 cm3 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 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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