[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]


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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

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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]
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