[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 132 (Friday, July 10, 1998)] [Notices] [Pages 37349-37350] From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov] [FR Doc No: 98-18304] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE International Trade Administration University of Texas at Austin, 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: 97-086R. Applicant: University of Texas at Austin, 78712. Instrument: 3-D Motion Analysis System, Model Vicon 140. Manufacturer: Oxford Metrics, Ltd., United Kingdom. Intended Use: See notice at 62 FR 53594, October 15, 1997. Reasons: The foreign instrument provides precise time-matched data collection for analog samples and video motion data by using a single clock and phase-locking analog signals with the motion data. Advice received from: National Institutes of Health, June 8, 1998. Docket Number: 98-016. Applicant: University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706-1490. Instrument: High Speed Length Controller, Model 308B. Manufacturer: Crystallox, Ltd., United Kingdom. Intended Use: See notice at 63 FR 15831, April 1, 1998. Reasons: The foreign instrument [[Page 37350]] provides measurement of the contractile force of muscle cells by mechanically deforming the length of the muscle fiber. Advice received from: National Institutes of Health, June 8, 1998. Docket Number: 98-017. Applicant: University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver, CO 80262. Instrument: High Intensity Xenon Flashlamp System, Model MJL-C1. Manufacturer: Hi-Tech Scientific, Germany. Intended Use: See notice at 63 FR 15831, April 1, 1998. Reasons: The foreign instrument provides: (1) A three-lens quartz condenser, (2) a flash repetition rate of 0.05-10 Hz and (3) pulse length from 400-1500 ns. Advice received from: National Institutes of Health, June 8, 1998. 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. 98-18304 Filed 7-9-98; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 3510-DS-P