[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 156 (Monday, August 12, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 41773-41774]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-20503]
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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, D.C. 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,
N.W., Washington, D.C.
Docket Number: 96-071. Applicant: University of California, Los
Alamos National Laboratory, P.O. Box 990, Los Alamos, NM 87545.
Instrument: ICP Mass Spectrometer, Model PlasmaQuad. Manufacturer:
Fisons Instruments, United Kingdom. Intended Use: The instrument will
be used to study the transport of ultra low level contaminants in the
environment, and trace composition of high purity materials, soils,
waters, aerosols in air and biological tissues. Application accepted by
Commissioner of Customs: July 5, 1996.
Docket Number: 96-072. Applicant: Penn State University, 118
Research Building West, University Park, PA 16802. Instrument: Nano
Indentor System, Model UMIS 2001. Manufacturer: CISRO, Australia.
Intended Use: The instrument will be used to study interfacial
phenomena in engineering materials and the information gathered will be
used in mathematical models and will be applied to the design of
superior alloys. It is planned to study the mechanical properties of
materials as a function of precise location within the microstructure.
In addition, the instrument will be used for educational purposes in
the courses Esci 414M, Esci 497D, Esci 475, Esci 410H. Application
accepted by Commissioner of Customs: July 5, 1996.
Docket Number: 96-073. Applicant: University of California,
Accounting Office, 400 University Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720. Instrument:
High Pressure Freezing Machine, Model HPM 010. Manufacturer: Bal-Tec,
Inc., Liechtenstein. Intended Use: The instrument will be used to
freeze a wide variety of cells and tissues, including Drosophila
embryos and Arabidopsis plant tissues. In addition, the instrument will
be used in electron microscopy courses that teach all the techniques,
including rapid freezing, needed to prepare samples and examine them in
the electron microscope. Application accepted by Commissioner of
Customs: July 11, 1996.
Docket Number: 96-074. Applicant: The Association of Universities
for Research in Astronomy, Inc., 1625 Massachusetts Avenue, NW,
Washington, DC 20036. Instrument: 8M Optical Telescope Primary Mirror.
Manufacturer: REOSC Optique, France. Intended Use: The instrument will
be
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used with a telescope which is used by the international astronomical
community to advance basic research and scientific opportunities
involving star birth, origins of heavy elements, galaxy formation, the
early universe, etc. Application accepted by Commissioner of Customs:
July 12, 1996.
Docket Number: 96-075. Applicant: University of Illinois at Urbana-
Champaign, Purchasing Division, 506 South Wright Street, 207 Henry
Administration Building, Urbana, IL 61801. Instrument: Eye Tracking
System, Model EYELINK. Manufacturer: SR Research Ltd., Canada. Intended
Use: The instrument will be used to study various aspects of human eye
movements while performing various visual performance tasks including
flight instrument panel usage. Other experiments will involve looking
at the effects of aging on eye movement for visual perception.
Application accepted by Commissioner of Customs: July 15, 1996.
Docket Number: 96-076. Applicant: University of Illinois at Urbana-
Champaign, Purchasing Division, 506 South Wright Street, 207 Henry
Administration Building, Urbana, IL 61801. Instrument: Eye Tracking
System, Model EYELINK. Manufacturer: SR Research Ltd., Canada. Intended
Use: The instrument will be used to measure eye-gaze positions and
detect small saccades (quick, high velocity eye movements) during the
visual perception of natural speech in real time as an observer moves
or talks. Application accepted by Commissioner of Customs: July 15,
1996.
Docket Number: 96-077. Applicant: University of Illinois at Urbana-
Champaign, Purchasing Division, 506 South Wright Street, 207 Henry
Administration Building, Urbana, IL 61801. Instrument: Eye Tracking
System, Model EYELINK. Manufacturer: SR Research Ltd., Canada. Intended
Use: The instrument will be used to study eye movements of people as
they read and look at pictures and to examine the eye movements of
people who are seeking information in a 3-D virtual reality
environment. Application accepted by Commissioner of Customs: July 15,
1996.
Frank W. Creel,
Director, Statutory Import Programs Staff.
[FR Doc. 96-20503 Filed 8-9-96; 8:45 am]
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