[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 10 (Wednesday, January 15, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Page 2133]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-924]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Applications for Duty-Free Entry of Scientific Instruments
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), we invite comments on the question of whether
instruments of equivalent scientific value, for the purposes for which
the instruments shown below are intended to be used, are being
manufactured in the United States.
Comments must comply with 15 CFR 301.5(a)(3) and (4) of the
regulations and be filed within 20 days with the Statutory Import
Programs Staff, U.S. Department of Commerce, Washington, D.C. 20230.
Applications may be examined between 8:30 A.M. and 5:00 P.M. in Room
4211, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution Avenue,
N.W., Washington, D.C.
Docket Number: 96-125. Applicant: Smithsonian Institution, National
Zoological Park, 3800 Connecticut Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20005.
Instrument: Biological Cryostage, Model BCS 196. Manufacturer: Linkam
Scientific Instruments Ltd., United Kingdom. Intended Use: The
instrument will be used to develop optimal sperm cryopreservation
protocols in endangered species. It will be compatible with an existing
videomicroscope, permitting both direct observation and video
documentation of sperm visibility during the freeze-thaw process.
Application accepted by Commissioner of Customs: November 26, 1996.
Docket Number: 96-126. Applicant: Cornell University, Purchasing
Department, 55 Judd Falls Road, Ithaca, NY 14850. Instrument: IR Mass
Spectrometer, Model Deltaplus. Manufacturer: Finnigan MAT,
Germany. Intended Use: The instrument will be used for the high
precision determination of stable isotopes of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen,
nitrogen, and sulfur during studies of (1) water and CO\2\ flux in
environmental systems, (2) plant-water-atmosphere relationships and (3)
artificially enriched carbon, trace gases, and isotopes in carbonates.
Application accepted by Commissioner of Customs: November 26, 1996.
Docket Number: 96-127. Applicant: U. S. Geological Survey, Box
25046, MS 963, Denver Federal Center, Denver, CO 80225. Instrument: SIR
Mass Spectrometer with Automated Sample Peripherals, Model Optima.
Manufacturer: Micromass, United Kingdom. Intended Use: The instrument
will be used during investigations to determine the stable isotope
composition of the appropriate geological waters, rocks and minerals to
further the understanding of the history of the earth's climate and
wide range of geological and environmental processes. An additional use
of the instrument will be to develop the capability of analyzing
extremely small samples for stable isotope compositions using domestic
manufactured lasers for microsampling. Application accepted by
Commissioner of Customs: December 2, 1996.
Docket Number: 96-128. Applicant: Montana State University,
Microbiology Department, 109 Lewis Hall, P.O. Box 17352, Bozeman, MT
59717-0352. Instrument: Real-time Microbial Analysis System, Model
ChemScan. Manufacturer: Chemunex SA, France. Intended Use: The
instrument will be used to count the numbers of bacteria in samples of
water, wastewater, soil, sediment, food, beverage and other similar
materials. In addition, the instrument will be used for graduate and
undergraduate student research and training. Application accepted by
Commissioner of Customs: December 2, 1996.
Docket Number: 96-130. Applicant: State University of New York,
Research Foundation, Stony Brook, NY 11794. Instrument: Mass
Spectrometer, Model Deltaplus. Manufacturer: Finnigan MAT,
Germany. Intended Use: The instrument will be used for studies
concerning the relative abundances of the isotopes carbon-12 to carbon-
13, oxygen-18 to oxygen-16, hydrogen-1 to hydrogen-2, nitrogen-14 to
nitrogen-15, and sulfur-34 to sulfur-36 in gas phase compounds,
including atmospheric carbon monoxide, atmospheric methane, sulfur
hexafluoride, molecular nitrogen, and molecular oxygen. In addition,
the instrument will be used for hands on instruction of mass
spectrometry and will be available to graduate students pursuing
advanced degrees in the earth sciences. Application accepted by
Commissioner of Customs: December 4, 1996.
Frank W. Creel,
Director Statutory Import Programs Staff.
[FR Doc. 97-924 Filed 1-14-97; 8:45 am]
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