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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 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 Subsections 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: 94-017. Applicant: University of Maryland, Physics
Department, College Park, MD 20742-4111. Instrument: Thin Film
Deposition System. Manufacturer: Precision Research Instruments,
Canada. Intended Use: The instrument will be used for studies of a
class of low transition temperature superconductors, mainly transition
metal elemental superconductors such as Nb and binary superconductors
such as Mo-Ge and Nb-N. These studies will include investigating the
electrodynamics of proximity coupled superconductors and the properties
of arrays of coupled Josephson junctions. In addition, the instrument
will be used extensively in four courses offered by the physics
department. Application Accepted by Commissioner of Customs: February
16, 1994.
Docket Number: 94-021. Applicant: University of Colorado at
Boulder, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Campus Box 215,
Boulder, CO 80309-0215. Instrument: Cryostream Nitrogen Gas Cooler.
Manufacturer: Oxford Cryosystems, United Kingdom. Intended Use: The
instrument will be used for studies of crystals of protein molecules or
RNA molecules in order to determine the structures of molecules at
atomic resolution. The resulting structural information will be
important in protein engineering and understanding how RNA molecules
fold up into conformations that are biologically active. In addition,
the instrument will be used for educational purposes in several
chemistry courses. Application Accepted by Commissioner of Customs:
February 17, 1994.
Docket Number: 94-024. Applicant: Lehigh University, 111 Research
Drive, Bethlehem, PA 18015. Instrument: Measurement and Analysis of
Surface Interactions and Forces. Manufacturer: Anutech Pty Ltd.,
Australia. Intended Use: The instrument will be used to measure: (1)
The forces of interaction between polymer-bearing surfaces as a
function of their distance of separation (on the order of molecular
dimensions) and (2) the friction and viscosity between these surfaces.
In addition, the instrument will be used for educational purposes in
the graduate level course Ch.E. (Chem., Mat) 497 - Polymer Interfaces
which includes 4-6 weeks of laboratory training for instrumental
analysis of polymer surfaces and interfaces. Application Accepted by
Commissioner of Customs: February 24, 1994.
Docket Number: 94-025. Applicant: Princeton University, Geological
& Geophysical Sciences, Guyot Hall, Princeton, NJ 08544. Instrument:
Calorimetric System, Model STA409C. Manufacturer: Netzsch.-Geratebau
GmbH, Germany. Intended Use: The instrument will be used to conduct
experiments involving quantitative scanning calorimetry and TGA/DTA of
silicates, oxides, minerals and ceramics with the objective of
understanding fundamental thermodynamic properties. Application
Accepted by Commissioner of Customs: February 24, 1994.
Docket Number: 94-026. Applicant: University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill, Department of Chemistry, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3290.
Instrument: High Resolution Sector Mass Spectrometer, Model MAT 900.
Manufacturer: Finnigan MAT, Germany. Intended Use: The instrument will
be used in the development of new and improved analytical mass
spectrometry methods in research which involves biological molecules
such as peptides, carbohydrates and oligonucleotides, synthetic
polymers, and general organic molecules. In addition, phenomena
associated with tandem mass spectrometry will be investigated.
Application Accepted by Commissioner of Customs: February 24, 1994.
Docket Number: 94-029. Applicant: University of Florida, Department
of Chemistry, PO Box 117200, Gainesville, FL 32611-7200. Instrument:
Excimer Laser Pumped Dye Laser System, Model LPX 240i. Manufacturer:
Lambda Physik, Germany. Intended Use: The instrument will be used as an
excitation source for ionization of elemental species which have been
vaporized in an electrothermal furnace and atomized (i.e., converted to
free atoms) in an air-acetylene flame. The research will focus on the
development of the method with emphasis on the analysis of trace
elements in small biological samples (body fluids and tissues).
Application Accepted by Commissioner of Customs:. February 28, 1994.
Pamela Woods,
Acting Director, Statutory Import Programs Staff.
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