[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 83 (Wednesday, April 30, 1997)] [Notices] [Page 23433] From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov] [FR Doc No: 97-11172] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE International Trade Administration Brigham and Womens's 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 am and 5 pm 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 Numbers: 97-002, 97-003 and 97-006. Applicant: Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA 02115. Instrument: (3) Digital Sleep Recorders, Model Vitaport 2. Docket Number: 97-005. Applicant: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139. Instrument: Digital Sleep Recorder, Model Vitaport 2. Manufacturer: TEMEC Instruments BV, The Netherlands. Intended Use: See notice at 62 FR 8928, February 27, 1997. Reasons: The foreign instrument provides 16-channel digital recording of polysomnographic and other physiological variables using a wireless monitor worn on the waist for studies of sleep and performance of astronauts aboard the Space Shuttle. Advice received from: National Institutes of Health, February 4, 1997. Docket Number: 97-010. Applicant: Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94304-5119. Instrument: Ambulatory Recorder, Model Embla. Manufacturer: Flaga hF. Medical Service, Iceland. Intended Use: See notice at 62 FR 8929, February 27, 1997. Reasons: The foreign instrument provides ambulatory signal processing and recording of physiological measurements with: (1) 1.0V noise level at 200 Hz with an input range of 250 mV, (2) direct measurement of 16 channels of biological signals and (3) user-modifiable control software. Advice received from: National Institutes of Health, March 19, 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. 97-11172 Filed 4-29-97; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 3510-DS-P