[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 42 (Friday, March 1, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 8041-8042]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-4754]
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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: 96-001. Applicant: University of California, Davis,
174 Physics/Geology Bldg., Davis, CA 95616-8605. Instrument: Water Gas
Phase Equilibration System. Manufacturer: Finnigan MAT, Germany.
Intended Use: The instrument will be used to analyze the stable oxygen
and hydrogen isotopic composition (180/160 and D(euterium) /
H) of water samples derived from seawater samples collected during
experimental research and ground water samples from hydrographic
studies. The experiments will involve studies of the physiological and
environmental parameters responsible for stable isotope variability in
the calcium carbonate shells of fossil organisms via the study of
living representatives in the laboratory and field. In addition, the
instrument will be used in the course Geology 227, Stable Isotope
Biochemistry introducing graduate students to different applications of
stable isotope geochemistry in the research environment. Application
Accepted by Commissioner of Customs: January 3, 1996.
Docket Number: 96-002. Applicant: DHHS/Food and Drug
Administration, National Center for Toxicological Research, Division of
Chemistry, 3900 NCTR Road, Jefferson, AR 72079. Instrument: ICP Mass
Spectrometer, Model PlasmaQuad XR. Manufacturer: Fisons Instruments,
United Kingdom. Intended Use: The instrument will be used for studies
of food, food ingredients, animal diets, animal tissues and water to
determine the quantitation of the levels of trace elements of interest
in these samples. The instrument will also be used for speciation
studies for toxicologically important elements such as As, Cr, and Mn
among others. Application Accepted by Commissioner of Customs: January
4, 1996.
Docket Number: 96-003. Applicant: Mount Holyoke College, 50 College
Street, South Hadley, MA 01075. Instrument: Electron Microscope, Model
CM100. Manufacturer: Philips, The Netherlands. Intended Use: The
instrument will be used in a wide variety of research projects in the
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biological sciences which include but are not limited to: (a)
assessment of which structural components of the nucleus remain after
progressive dismantling of nuclear components by high salt, nuclease,
and detergent treatment in research designed to probe nuclear matrix
structure and function in plant cells and (b) characterization of
cellular defects in various Drosophila mutants which figure prominently
in molecular biology. In addition, the instrument will be used for
educational purposes in several biology courses. Application Accepted
by Commissioner of Customs: January 4, 1996.
Docket Number: 96-004. Applicant: University of California at
Berkeley, 485 Hearst Mining Bldg., Berkeley, CA 94720. Instrument:
Mass/Energy Spectrometer. Manufacturer: Hiden Analytical Ltd., United
Kingdom. Intended Use: The instrument will be used for determining the
mass, energy and flux of ions, neutrals and radicals generated by an
activated nitrogen source. It will also be used for trace impurity
measurements. Application Accepted by Commissioner of Customs: January
11, 1996.
Docket Number: 96-005. Applicant: Scripps Research Institute, 10666
North Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, CA 92037. Instrument: Electron
Microscope, Model CM120. Manufacturer: Philips, The Netherlands.
Intended Use: The instrument will be used for studies of the structure
of tobacco, alfalfa, and cucumber mosaic viruses, muscle proteins,
nuclear pore complexes, microtubules, CHIP28 water channels,
acetylcholine receptors, gap junctions, rotavirus and reovirus, and
rice yellow mottle virus. The goals of the investigations are in
general to understand the structural basis for how the subcellular
organelles and supramolecular assemblies function and to elucidate the
role that they play in the life of the cell. In addition, the
instrument will be used to provide training in use of the electron
microscope as a research tool. Application Accepted by Commissioner of
Customs: February 6, 1996.
Docket Number: 96-007. Applicant: U.S. Department of Commerce,
NOAA/ERL/CMDL, R/E/CGI, 325 Broadway, Boulder, CO 80303. Instrument:
Stable Isotope Mass Spectrometer, Model OPTIMA. Manufacturer: Fisons
Instruments, United Kingdom. Intended Use: The instrument will be used
to measure the stable isotope ratios of CO2 from flask samples of
atmospheric air sampled weekly from about 50 sites worldwide and
analyzed for the mixing ratios of methane, carbon monoxide and other
gases. The instrument will also be used to measure the stable isotope
ratios of CO2 from standard and reference materials as required to
maintain the integrity and calibration of the data base of atmospheric
measurements. Application Accepted by Commissioner of Customs: February
6, 1996.
Docket Number: 96-008. Applicant: University of California, Los
Alamos National Laboratory, P.O. Box 990, Los Alamos, NM 87545.
Instrument: Mass Spectrometer, Model Plasma Trace 2. Manufacturer:
Fisons Instruments, United Kingdom. Intended Use: The instrument will
be used for studies of soils, high purity silicon chips, waters and low
level waste streams to determine trace analytes in a given sample.
Application Accepted by Commissioner of Customs: February 7, 1996.
Frank W. Creel
Director, Statutory Import Programs Staff
[FR Doc. 96-4754 Filed 2-29-96; 8:45 am]
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