[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 234 (Wednesday, December 6, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Pages 62389-62390]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-29729]
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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: 95-106. Applicant: Pennsylvania State University,
Department of Chemistry, 152 Davey Laboratory, University Park, PA
16802. Instrument: Cold Stage for Time-of-Flight SIMS. Manufacturer:
Kore Technology, Ltd., United Kingdom. Intended Use: The instrument
will be used for studies of organic, inorganic and biological solids to
determine whether a certain biological molecule is bound inside or
outside the nucleus of a frozen biological cell. Application Accepted
by Commissioner of Customs: October 24, 1995.
Docket Number: 95-107. Applicant: U.S. Department of Commerce,
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Bldg. 222, Rm A113,
Gaithersburg, MD 20899. Instrument: Electron Microscope, Model CM300.
Manufacturer: Philips, The Netherlands. Intended Use: The instrument
will be used to study the chemical and crystallographic composition,
morphology, and their related spatial placement of a variety of
inorganic and organic materials, such as ceramics, metals, minerals,
and polymers. Application Accepted by Commissioner of Customs: October
26, 1995.
Docket Number: 95-108. Applicant: VA Medical Center of Gainesville,
1601 SW Archer Road, Gainesville, FL 32608-1197. Instrument: Electron
Microscope, Model CM100. Manufacturer: Philips, The Netherlands.
Intended Use: The instrument will be used for studies of tissue from
different organs, cultured cells, and cell blocks prepared from body
cavity fluids. The studies will involve investigations of cell
characterizations such as cytoplasmic membrane projections, presence or
absence of cell junctions, type of junctions, and cytoplasmic
organelles at the ultrastructural level to differentiate between cell
types and their origin. In addition, the instrument will be used for
training pathology residents. Application Accepted by Commissioner of
Customs: October 26, 1995.
Docket Number: 95-109. Applicant: University of California, Room
301, McCone Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720. Instrument: Energy Dispersive
Spectrometer. Manufacturer: Oxford Instruments, United Kingdom.
Intended Use: The instrument will be used for studies of various
materials including mineral grain separates, whole rock thin sections,
soil particles, meteorites, archeological artifacts, experimental glass
and crystalline charges, volcanic ashes, rare earth semiconductors,
superconducting oxides, silicide and nitride ceramics, and super
alloys. In addition, the instrument will be used for educational
purposes in the course Geology 401. Application Accepted by
Commissioner of Customs: October 25, 1995.
Docket Number: 95-110. Applicant: National Institute of Standards
and Technology, Quince Orchard Road, Gaithersburg, MD 20899.
Instrument: Mass Spectrometer, Model JMS-700. Manufacturer: JEOL,
Japan. Intended Use: The instrument will be used for the quantitative
and qualitative determination of compounds of biomedical interest in
complex matrices through studies of the properties of concentration,
molecular weight, molecular structure, and ion structure. Application
Accepted by Commissioner of Customs: October 26, 1995.
Docket Number: 95-111. Applicant: University of Wisconsin-Madison,
Integrated Microscopy Resource, 1525 Linden Drive, Madison, WI 53706.
Instrument: Mode-locked Solid State Laser. Manufacturer: Microlase
Optical Systems, Ltd., United Kingdom. Intended Use: The instrument
will be used as a fluorescence excitation source for the study of the
dynamics of the internal cellular architecture of living biological
specimens. The objective of these experimental observations is to
understand how the internal machinery of a cell functions during
development. In addition, the instrument will be used in courses for
advanced microscopy techniques for undergraduates, graduate students
and visiting academic research workers. Application Accepted by
Commissioner of Customs: October 26, 1995.
Docket Number: 95-112. Applicant: The Scripps Research Institute,
10666 North Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, CA 92037. Instrument: Electron
Microscope, Model CM100. Manufacturer: Philips, The Netherlands.
Intended Use: The instrument will be used for electron microscopic
studies of the structure of the following biological materials which
have been isolated from various plants and tissue and culture cells:
(1) endoplasmic reticulum and Golgi membranes, (2) plant cells, (3)
actin cytoskeletal complexes, (4) nuclear envelope membranes, (5)
plasma membranes, and (6) clathin, dynamin, and GAP junctions.
Application Accepted by Commissioner of Customs: October 16, 1995.
Frank W. Creel
Director, Statutory Import Programs Staff
[FR Doc. 95-29729 Filed 12-5-95; 8:45 am]
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