[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 148 (Wednesday, July 31, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Page 39948]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-19473]
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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 5:00 P.M. in Room
4211, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution Avenue,
NW., Washington, DC.
Docket Number: 96-067. Applicant: Woods Hole Oceanographic
Institution, 266 Woods Hole Road, Woods Hole, MA 02543. Instrument: 5
Window Beta Detector with Anticoincidence, Model GM-25-5. Manufacturer:
Risoe National Laboratory, Denmark. Intended Use: The instrument will
be used for sampling the ocean at different depths to estimate carbon
fluxes out of the upper water. This is a number that needs to be
plugged into ocean/atmosphere models to estimate such things as global
warming. Application accepted by Commissioner of Customs: June 19,
1996.
Docket Number: 96-068. Applicant: The University of Vermont,
Burlington, VT 05405. Instrument: Multisample Inlet Manifold for Mass
Spectrometer. Manufacturer: Pro-Vac Services, United Kingdom. Intended
Use: The instrument is an accessory used to automate sample analysis
performed with a mass spectrometer which will increase the daily sample
processing. The mass spectrometer is used to determine stable isotope
abundances of the elements C, O, N and S in natural materials for a
variety of environmental, biological and ecological research projects.
In addition, the accessory will be used for educational purposes in the
course Environmental Isotope Geochemistry. Application accepted by
Commissioner of Customs: June 20, 1996.
Docket Number: 96-069. Applicant: Arizona State University,
Department of Zoology, Box 871501, Tempe, AZ 85287-1501. Instrument:
Image Analysis System with Macro Accessory Package. Manufacturer:
Imaging Research Inc., Canada. Intended Use: The instrument will be
used for in situ hybridization studies and in vitro receptor
autoradiography. The neurochemical data will be analyzed at various
levels of neuroanatomical detail. These experiments will be conducted
to determine how stress alters the major neurotransmitter systems in
the hippocampus in the hope of understanding how stress alters the
functional status of the hippocampus. Application accepted by
Commissioner of Customs: June 26, 1996.
Docket Number: 96-070. Applicant: Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139. Instrument:
Compact Geotechnical Centrifuge. Manufacturer: Chiker Technologies,
United Kingdom. Intended Use: The instrument will be used to conduct
experimental investigations of problems involving soil and groundwater
behavior. Experiments will be conducted to examine how contaminants
move through soil bodies under a variety of different conditions and
under the influence of different body forces. In addition, the
experiments will be conducted to investigate the performance of
different in situ remediation technologies, such as ``pump-and-treat,''
air-sparging and surfactant flushing, that are available for cleaning
up contaminated soil sites. The instrument will also be used in the
course Introduction to Geotechnical Engineering that teaches the
fundamentals of soil behavior and soil-structure interaction.
Application accepted by Commissioner of Customs: June 26, 1996.
Frank W. Creel,
Director Statutory Import Programs Staff.
[FR Doc. 96-19473 Filed 7-30-96; 8:45 am]
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