99-15447. Application for Duty-Free Entry of Scientific Instrument

[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 116 (Thursday, June 17, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 32485-32486]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-15447]


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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

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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, DC 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, 
NW., Washington, DC.
    Docket Number: 99-011. Applicant: University of Wisconsin-Madison, 
750 University Avenue, Madison, WI 53706. Instrument: Micromanipulator, 
Model MK1. Manufacturer: Singer, United Kingdom. Intended Use: The 
instrument is intended to be used for studies of RNA and protein, in 
microinjected Xenopus Oocytes. The objectives of the investigations are 
to: (a) Study the mechanisms by which tRNAs are exported and to 
determine what features of tRNAs are necessary and sufficient for their 
export; (b) study the mechanisms by which constitutive transport 
element (CTE) or MPMV is able to promote the release of completely 
spliced pre-mRNAs from spliceosomes and to relate export of that 
element to the process of normal mRNA export; and (c) study the 
structure of a small RNA export element and determine what factors lead 
to its export or retention. Application accepted by Commissioner of 
Customs: June 2, 1999.
Frank W. Creel,
Director, Statutory Import Programs Staff.
[FR Doc. 99-15447 Filed 6-16-99; 8:45 am]
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