[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 75 (Wednesday, April 19, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Pages 19571-19572]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-9694]
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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: 95-017. Applicant: USEPA, Central Regional
Laboratory, 536 S. Clark St., Chicago, IL 60605. Instrument: ICP Mass
Spectrometer, Model PlasmaQuad. Manufacturer: Fisons Instruments,
United Kingdom. Intended Use: The instrument will be used to determine
the low concentrations of metals and other elemental constituents of
waters, extracts of soils, sludges or sediments and extracts of fish or
other tissue samples. Application Accepted by Commissioner of Customs:
March 15, 1995.
Docket Number: 95-018. Applicant: Florida State University,
National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, 1800 East Paul Dirac Drive,
Tallahassee, FL 32306. Instrument: Mass Spectrometer, Model 262.
Manufacturer: Finnigan MAT, Germany. Intended Use: The instrument will
be used to determine isotope ratios by thermal ionization mass
spectrometry. The isotopes of interest (Rb-Sr, Sm-Nd, Lu-Hf, U-Th-Pb)
form the naturally occurring radioactive background. The studies will
concentrate on the determination of the isotopic and inferred chemical
diversity and heterogeneity of different chemical reservoirs of the
earth. In addition, the instrument will be used for educational
purposes in the course ``Advanced Topics in Geochemistry.'' Application
Accepted by Commissioner of Customs: March 16, 1995.
Docket Number: 95-019. Applicant: Woods Hole Oceanographic
Institution, Woods Hole, MA 02543. Instrument: Mass Spectrometer, Model
IMS 1270. Manufacturer: Cameca Geologie, France. Intended Use: The
instrument will be used for the following research activities:
A. The early evolution of the earth--determine ages of rocks based
on the U-Pb decay systems in minerals such as zircon, monzaite, sphene
and baddelyite.
B. Upper mantle dynamics--determine trace element abundances in
minerals and use as a natural tracer for deciphering geologic
processes.
C. Crustal processes and evolution--investigations on how
metamorphic fluids evolved, and how post-orogenic tectonic movements
operate from the point of view of cooling of metamorphic and granitic
terranes. [[Page 19572]]
D. Environmental changes--investigating changes in biospheric
environment by determining oxygen and carbon isotopic compositions in
planktonic foraminifera shells.
E. Fundamental properties in geochemistry--numerous laboratory
experiments conducted to determine distributions of trace elements
between minerals and melts, rates of diffusion of elements in melts and
minerals, and rates of mantle/melt reactions.
Application Accepted by Commissioner of Customs: March 16, 1995.
Docket Number: 95-020. Applicant: Masonic Medical Research Lab.,
2150 Bleecker Street, Utica, NY 13501-1787. Instrument: Xenon Flashlamp
System, Model XF-10. Manufacturer: Hi-Tech Scientific, United Kingdom.
Intended Use: The instrument will be used for the study of the ionic
basis of currents that contribute to arrhythmias in the heart.
Application Accepted by Commissioner of Customs: March 17, 1995.
Frank W. Creel,
Director, Statutory Import Programs Staff.
[FR Doc. 95-9694 Filed 4-18-95; 8:45 am]
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