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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 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 Subsections 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: 94-017. Applicant: University of Maryland, Physics 
Department, College Park, MD 20742-4111. Instrument: Thin Film 
Deposition System. Manufacturer: Precision Research Instruments, 
Canada. Intended Use: The instrument will be used for studies of a 
class of low transition temperature superconductors, mainly transition 
metal elemental superconductors such as Nb and binary superconductors 
such as Mo-Ge and Nb-N. These studies will include investigating the 
electrodynamics of proximity coupled superconductors and the properties 
of arrays of coupled Josephson junctions. In addition, the instrument 
will be used extensively in four courses offered by the physics 
department. Application Accepted by Commissioner of Customs: February 
16, 1994.
    Docket Number: 94-021. Applicant: University of Colorado at 
Boulder, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Campus Box 215, 
Boulder, CO 80309-0215. Instrument: Cryostream Nitrogen Gas Cooler. 
Manufacturer: Oxford Cryosystems, United Kingdom. Intended Use: The 
instrument will be used for studies of crystals of protein molecules or 
RNA molecules in order to determine the structures of molecules at 
atomic resolution. The resulting structural information will be 
important in protein engineering and understanding how RNA molecules 
fold up into conformations that are biologically active. In addition, 
the instrument will be used for educational purposes in several 
chemistry courses. Application Accepted by Commissioner of Customs: 
February 17, 1994.
    Docket Number: 94-024. Applicant: Lehigh University, 111 Research 
Drive, Bethlehem, PA 18015. Instrument: Measurement and Analysis of 
Surface Interactions and Forces. Manufacturer: Anutech Pty Ltd., 
Australia. Intended Use: The instrument will be used to measure: (1) 
The forces of interaction between polymer-bearing surfaces as a 
function of their distance of separation (on the order of molecular 
dimensions) and (2) the friction and viscosity between these surfaces. 
In addition, the instrument will be used for educational purposes in 
the graduate level course Ch.E. (Chem., Mat) 497 - Polymer Interfaces 
which includes 4-6 weeks of laboratory training for instrumental 
analysis of polymer surfaces and interfaces. Application Accepted by 
Commissioner of Customs: February 24, 1994.
    Docket Number: 94-025. Applicant: Princeton University, Geological 
& Geophysical Sciences, Guyot Hall, Princeton, NJ 08544. Instrument: 
Calorimetric System, Model STA409C. Manufacturer: Netzsch.-Geratebau 
GmbH, Germany. Intended Use: The instrument will be used to conduct 
experiments involving quantitative scanning calorimetry and TGA/DTA of 
silicates, oxides, minerals and ceramics with the objective of 
understanding fundamental thermodynamic properties. Application 
Accepted by Commissioner of Customs: February 24, 1994.
    Docket Number: 94-026. Applicant: University of North Carolina at 
Chapel Hill, Department of Chemistry, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3290. 
Instrument: High Resolution Sector Mass Spectrometer, Model MAT 900. 
Manufacturer: Finnigan MAT, Germany. Intended Use: The instrument will 
be used in the development of new and improved analytical mass 
spectrometry methods in research which involves biological molecules 
such as peptides, carbohydrates and oligonucleotides, synthetic 
polymers, and general organic molecules. In addition, phenomena 
associated with tandem mass spectrometry will be investigated. 
Application Accepted by Commissioner of Customs: February 24, 1994.
    Docket Number: 94-029. Applicant: University of Florida, Department 
of Chemistry, PO Box 117200, Gainesville, FL 32611-7200. Instrument: 
Excimer Laser Pumped Dye Laser System, Model LPX 240i. Manufacturer: 
Lambda Physik, Germany. Intended Use: The instrument will be used as an 
excitation source for ionization of elemental species which have been 
vaporized in an electrothermal furnace and atomized (i.e., converted to 
free atoms) in an air-acetylene flame. The research will focus on the 
development of the method with emphasis on the analysis of trace 
elements in small biological samples (body fluids and tissues). 
Application Accepted by Commissioner of Customs:. February 28, 1994.
Pamela Woods,
Acting Director, Statutory Import Programs Staff.
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