[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 108 (Tuesday, June 4, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 28174-28175]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-13970]
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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,
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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 5:00 p.m. in Room
4211, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution Avenue,
NW., Washington, DC.
Docket Number: 95-114R. Applicant: Research Triangle Institute,
3040 Cornwallis Road, Research Triangle, NC 27709. Instrument: (2) ICP
Mass Spectrometers, Model PlasmaQuad 2. Manufacturer: Fisons
Instruments, Inc, United Kingdom. Intended Use: Original notice of this
resubmitted application was published in the Federal Register of
December 14, 1995.
Docket Number: 96-043. Applicant: The University of Chicago, 5841
S. Maryland Avenue, Chicago, IL 60637. Instrument: Autosampler, Model
A200S. Manufacturer: Finnigan Corp., Germany. Intended Use: The
instrument will be installed on an existing gas chromatograph/mass
spectrometer for the analysis of biochemical products for human
nutrition research. These biochemicals will be obtained from humans to
trace the metabolism of nutrients in the human body in studies with the
objectives of understanding the biochemical mechanisms of nutritionally
related disease. Application Accepted by Commissioner of Customs: April
19, 1996.
Docket Number: 96-044. Applicant: University of California, Los
Angeles, Plasma Physics Laboratory, 405 Hilgard Avenue, Los Angeles, CA
90095-1547. Instrument: Ti:Sapphire Laser. Manufacturer: MBP
Technologies, Inc., Canada. Intended Use: The instrument will be used
as the illuminator of a lidar system principally to range off the Ca+,
Fe, N2+, N2* layers in the ionosphere. The phenomena studied are
changes in the Ca+, Fe, N2+, N2* densities in the ionosphere due to
auroral conditions and changes in these densities. In addition, the
instrument will be used for educational purposes in graduate level
independent research courses. Application Accepted by Commissioner of
Customs: April 19, 1996.
Docket Number: 96-045. Applicant: Monell Chemical Senses Center,
3500 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104-3308. Instrument: Xenon
Flashlamp System, Model XF-10. Manufacturer: Hi-Tech Scientific, United
Kingdom. Intended Use: The instrument will be used in
electrophysiological studies of signal transduction in vertebrate
olfactory receptor neurons to characterize the molecular mechanisms by
which odorant molecules differentially activate olfactory receptor
neurons. Application Accepted by Commissioner of Customs: April 19,
1996.
Docket Number: 96-046. Applicant: Smithsonian Institution, National
Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC 20560. Instrument: Electron
Microprobe, Model JXA-8900R. Manufacturer: JEOL, Japan. Intended Use:
The instrument will be used for studies of the chemical composition,
elemental distribution of geological materials and various museum
objects. Experiments will consist of focussing on a high voltage
electron beam on a solid sample (usually a polished grain mount or thin
section), generating characteristic x-rays, and measuring these x-rays
quantitatively with wavelength and energy dispersive spectrometers.
Application Accepted by Commissioner of Customs: April 30, 1996.
Docket Number: 96-047. Applicant: University of Wisconsin-Madison,
Integrated Microscopy Resource, 1525 Linden Drive, Madison, WI 53706.
Instrument: Electron Microscope, Model EM 912 Omega. Manufacturer: LEO
Electron Microscopy, Germany. Intended Use: The instrument will be used
to study a variety of biological specimens to determine the detailed
structural consequences to a particular tissue of a specific
experimental manipulation. The instrument will also be used to
determine the elemental composition of a biological specimen as well as
to provide images of its ultrastructure. Application Accepted by
Commissioner of Customs: May 2, 1996.
Frank W. Creel,
Director, Statutory Import Programs Staff.
[FR Doc. 96-13970 Filed 6-3-96; 8:45 am]
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