98-20266. Application for Duty-Free Entry of Scientific Instrument

[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 145 (Wednesday, July 29, 1998)]
[Notices]
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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 Materials Importation Act of 1966 (Pub. L. 89-651; 80 Stat. 
897; 15 CFR part 301), we invite comments on the question of whether 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: 98-035. Applicant: Cornell University, 359 Bard 
Hall, Ithaca, NY 14853. Instrument: Scanning Tunneling Microscope, 
Model JAFM-4500XT. Manufacturer: JEOL Ltd., Japan. Intended Use: The 
instrument will be used for studies of crystalline and amorphous 
surfaces of insulating and semiconducting materials in an ultrahigh 
vacuum environment at room and elevated temperatures. Silicate glasses 
and their related crystalline forms are of particular interest. 
Investigations will be conducted to determine (a) the microscopic 
surface structure, (b) the surface chemical variations, (c) how the 
interactions between surface constituents influence changes in the 
structure and chemistry when the surface is processed and (d) how the 
tunneling electron current is influenced by subjecting the surface to 
electron and photon beams.

    Application accepted by Commissioner of Customs: July 15, 1998.
Frank W. Creel,
Director, Statutory Import Programs Staff.
[FR Doc. 98-20266 Filed 7-28-98; 8:45 am]
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