00-99. Application for Duty-Free Entry of Scientific Instrument

[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 2 (Tuesday, January 4, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Page 284]
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[FR Doc No: 00-99]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration


Application for Duty-Free Entry of Scientific Instrument

    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 an 
instrument of equivalent scientific value, for the purposes for which 
the instrument shown below is intended to be used, is 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. 
Application 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: 99-033. Applicant: Ames Laboratory, U.S. Department 
of Energy, 211 TASF, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011-3020. 
Instrument: UHV Surface Analysis System, Model Multiprobe S. 
Manufacturer: Omicron Vakuum Physik GmbH, Germany. Intended Use: The 
instrument is intended to be used for the characterization and 
fundamental surface structural studies of a class of intermetallic 
materials known as quasicrystals. The objectives of the research will 
include the following: (1) To determine the near-atomic level structure 
of the clean surfaces of a variety of quasicrystalline materials as a 
function of surface preparation, (2) To ascertain if any of the surface 
preparation methods affect single phase samples to such a degree that 
they become multiphase, (3) To determine metal film growth 
characteristics when deposited on quasicrystalline substrates and (4) 
To determine the effect of typical environmental gases on surface 
structure. Application accepted by Commissioner of Customs: December 
14, 1999.
Frank W. Creel,
Director, Statutory Import Programs Staff.
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