[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 108 (Tuesday, June 4, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 28175-28176]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-13968]
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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, DC 20230.
Applications may be examined between 8:30 a.m. and 5 p.m. in Room 4211,
U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution Avenue, NW.,
Washington, DC.
Docket Number: 95-085R. Applicant: University of Wisconsin--Eau
Claire, Eau Claire, WI 54702. Instrument: Absorbance and Fluorescence
Stopped-Flow Spectrophotometer, Model SX.17MV. Manufacturer: Applied
Photophysics, Ltd., United Kingdom. Intended Use: Original notice of
this resubmitted application was published in the Federal Register of
September 29, 1995. Docket Number: 95-093R. Applicant: Florida
International University, University Park, Miami, FL 33199. Instrument:
Stopped-Flow System. Manufacturer: Applied Photophysics, United
Kingdom. Intended Use: Original notice of this resubmitted application
was published in the Federal Register of November 14, 1995.
Docket Number: 95-097R. Applicant: Johns Hopkins University, 3400
N. Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21218. Instrument: Stopped-Flow
Spectrophotometer, Model SX.17MV. Manufacturer: Applied Photophysics,
Ltd., United Kingdom. Intended Use: Original notice of this resubmitted
application was published in the Federal Register of November 14, 1995.
Docket Number: 96-025. Applicant: The Pennsylvania State
University, The Applied Research Laboratory, P O Box 30 (Atherton St.),
State College, PA 16804-0030. Instrument: Mach-Zehnder Interferometer,
Model OP35-I/O. Manufacturer: UltraOptec Inc, Canada. Intended Use: The
instrument will be used for studies of bulk solids, thin films and
material gradients in experiments which involve noncontact elastic
property determination, dispersion measurements, vibrational mode
measurements, crack detection, and 3-D ultrasonic field profiling. In
addition, the instrument will be used for educational purposes in the
courses E.Mch. 521 Stress Waves in Solids and E.Mch. 440/Mtsc.
Nondestructive Evaluation of Flaws. Application Accepted by
Commissioner of Customs: March 1, 1996.
Docket Number: 96-026. Applicant: Bates College, Lewiston, ME
04240. Instrument: Rapid Kinetics Accessory, Model SFA-20.
Manufacturer: Hi-Tech Scientific, United Kingdom. Intended Use: The
instrument will be used for educational purposes in the course
Chemistry 203 - Physical Chemistry Laboratory involving the study of
fast reaction kinetics. Application Accepted by Commissioner of
Customs: March 6, 1996.
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Docket Number: 96-027. Applicant: Belmont University, Biology
Department, 1900 Belmont Boulevard, Nashville, TN 37212-3757.
Instrument: Electron Microscope, Model EM208. Manufacturer: Philips,
Czechoslovakia. Intended Use: The instrument will be used primarily for
educational purposes in the course BIO 401, Electron Microscopy in
which students will: (1) Fix, embed, section, and stain plant and
animal tissues and single-cell organisms, (2) learn the proper
operation of a transmission electron microscope, (3) learn how to take
photographs of the sectioned tissues, (4) study the ultrastructure of
the cells/tissues that have been photographed, and (5) properly mount
and label the photographs. Application accepted by Commissioner of
Customs: March 7, 1996.
Docket Number: 96-028. Applicant: Florida International University,
SERP, University Park, Miami, FL 33199. Instrument: (2) Mass
Spectrometers, Model Delta C. Manufacturer: Finnigan MAT, Germany.
Intended Use: The instruments will be used in a variety of basic
research projects, including studies of food webs in the Everglades and
associated coastal systems, studies of plant uptake of C and N in south
Florida wetlands and coral reefs, and studies of microbial processes
such as respiration and nitrification. In addition, the instrument will
be used in support of an annual workshop course with the objective of
stimulating use of stable isotope tracer technologies by faculty and
students in their environmental research. Application Accepted by
Commissioner of Customs: March 11, 1996.
Docket Number: 96-029. Applicant: University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
52242. Instrument: EPR Spectrometer, Model EMX 6/1. Manufacturer:
Bruker Instruments, Germany. Intended Use: The instrument will be used
to study environmental catalysts which provide catalytic solutions to
environmental problems. The research will focus on applications of EPR
to transition metal exchanged zeolites and will yield structural
information about the active site of the catalyst. Application Accepted
by Commissioner of Customs: March 11, 1996.
Docket Number: 96-030. Applicant: University of South Alabama,
Department of Pathology, 2451 Fillingim Street, Mobile, AL 36617.
Instrument: Electron Microscope, Model CM100. Manufacturer: N. V.
Philips, The Netherlands. Intended Use: The instrument will be used for
studies of human and animal tissues that include categorization of
neoplasms, storage disease and other disease processes, and
ultrastructure of normal tissues. In addition, the instrument will be
used for educational purposes in the courses PAT 211 - core pathology
course and PAT 416 - diagnostic electron microscopy. Application
Accepted by Commissioner of Customs: March 12, 1996.
Docket Number: 96-032. Applicant: University of California, Santa
Barbara, Department of Chemistry, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9510.
Instrument: Stopped-Flow Spectrophotometer, Model SX.18MV.
Manufacturer: Applied Photophysics, United Kingdom. Intended Use: The
instrument will be used to carry out stopped-flow kinetics experiments
at multiple wavelengths in order to characterize the rates of rapid
thermal reactions in solution as well as the spectra of reactive
intermediates. The instrumentation will complement research into
various problems of solution phase kinetics under investigation.
Application Accepted by Commissioner of Customs: March 12, 1996.
Frank W. Creel,
Director, Statutory Import Programs Staff.
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