University of Minnesota, et al.; Notice of Consolidated Decision on Applications for Duty-Free Entry of Scientific Instruments

[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 16 (Tuesday, January 26, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Page 3931]
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[FR Doc No: 99-1775]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration


University of Minnesota, 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: 98-046. Applicant: University of Minnesota, 
Minneapolis, MN 55455. Instrument: (2) Bioelectric Impedance 
Tomographs, Models APT/EIT and Mk3a EIT/APT. Manufacturer: University 
of Sheffield, United Kingdom. Intended Use: See notice at 63 FR 50556, 
September 22, 1998. Reasons: The foreign instrument provides real time 
dynamic imaging of cardiac blood volume changes and characterization of 
tissues such as the lung using 16-channel recording for bioelectric 
impedance tomography. Advice received from: National Institutes of 
Health, December 10, 1998.
    Docket Number: 98-049. Applicant: North Carolina State University, 
Raleigh, NC 27695-7212. Instrument: Oxylite Oxygen Monitor, Model 2000. 
Manufacturer: Oxford Optonix Ltd., United Kingdom. Intended Use: See 
notice at 63 FR 58368, October 30, 1998. Reasons: The foreign 
instrument provides an optical technique that incorporates a non-
metallic fiber optic probe that may remain in-situ during magnetic 
resonance imaging. Advice received from: National Institutes of Health, 
December 10, 1998.
    Docket Number: 98-056. Applicant: University of Wisconsin-Madison, 
Madison, WI 53706. Instrument: Piezo Manipulator, Model PPM-150FU. 
Manufacturer: Prime Tech Ltd., Japan. Intended Use: See notice at 63 FR 
63292, November 12, 1998. Reasons: The foreign instrument provides a 
rapid and controllable deformation piezo electric element to drill 
carefully through the zona pellucida and enter a cell with minimal 
damage or deformation during transgenic cloning procedures. Advice 
received from: National Institutes of Health, December 11, 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. 99-1775 Filed 1-25-99; 8:45 am]
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