[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] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 <10-9 torr with background specified as mass 36 and 132 M/e 36 <5 x 10-14 cm3 STP and M/e 132 <10-15 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 310l, (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] BILLING CODE 3510-DS-P