[Federal Register: July 6, 1999 (Volume 64, Number 128)]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

 
University of Connecticut, et al.; 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: 99-005. Applicant: University of Connecticut, 
Storrs, CT 06269-1020. Instrument: Fiber Electrode Manipulator System. 
Manufacturer: Thomas Recording, Germany. Intended Use: See notice at 64 
FR 23056, April 29, 1999. Reasons: The foreign instrument provides: (1) 
capability to position seven microelectrodes for independent 
manipulation within a small volume of tissue (inter-electrode distances 
of 256 <greek-m>m) and (2) microelectrodes having a maximum shaft 
diameter of only 80 <greek-m>m. Advice received from: National 
Institutes of Health, June 8, 1999.
    Docket Number: 99-008. Applicant: University of California, San 
Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093-0515. Instrument: Operant Testing System. 
Manufacturer: CeNeS Ltd., United Kingdom. Intended Use: See notice at 
64 FR 27516, May 20, 1999. Reasons: The foreign instrument provides: 
(1) A 9-hole nosepoke panel to permit randomized positioning of stimuli 
in a 5-choice serial reaction time task for rats and (2) 4.0 cm-deep 
ports to minimize undesirable head orientation. Advice received from: 
National Institutes of Health, June 8, 1999.
    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 either of 
the foreign instruments.
Frank W. Creel,
Director, Statutory Import Programs Staff.
[FR Doc. 99-17047 Filed 7-2-99; 8:45 am]
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