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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, DC 20230. 
Applications may be examined between 8:30 a.m. and 5 p.m. in room 4211, 
U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution Avenue NW., 
Washington, DC.

    Docket Number: 94-044. Applicant: Carnegie Institution of 
Washington, Department of Plant Biology, 290 Panama Street, Stanford, 
CA 94305. Instrument: Mass Spectrometer System, Model Delta S. 
Manufacturer: Finnigan MAT GmbH, Germany. Intended Use: The instrument 
will be used for studies of variations in the abundance of the stable 
isotopes of carbon, nitrogen and oxygen that occur in association with 
biological and physical transformations. These measurements will be 
used to understand the mechanisms of isotope fractionation in 
biological processes, particularly photosynthesis and respiration. In 
addition, the instrument will be used in studies of the natural 
variation of isotope ratio and relative abundance gases in the 
atmosphere and dissolved in the ocean. Taken together these studies 
will address scientific questions concerning the operation of the 
biosphere and the interaction of these with the atmosphere and oceans. 
Application Accepted by Commissioner of Customs: April 6, 1994.

    Docket Number: 94-054. Applicant: University of South Florida, 
Department of Marine Science, 140-7th Avenue South, St. Petersburg, FL 
33701. Instrument: Electron Microscope, Model H-7100. Manufacturer: 
Hitachi Scientific Instruments, Japan. Intended Use: The instrument 
will be used in marine ultrastructural research in the disciplines of 
biology, chemistry and geology. Specific research objectives will 
include the following:

(1) the enumeration of viruses in seawater and taxonomic studies on 
viral isolates,
(2) determination of the significance of viral encapsulated genomes 
in the dissolved DNA of the oceans,
(3) examination of the effects of anthropogenic activities on reef 
environments as indicated by viral abundances,
(4) a comparison of the variation of fish mitochondrial DNA among 
different fish groups,
(5) pinpointing locations and numbers of ion pumps in fish and 
crustacean specimens,
(6) examination of algal symbiosis in foraminifera including 
documentation of cytological changes associated with shell 
bleaching,
(7) studies of the toxicologies in marine mammals to identify heavy 
metals in manatee tissue,
(8) characterization of the mineralogy and microtextures of 
diagenetic marine minerals to obtain detailed elemental x-ray sample 
maps,
(9) characterization of experimentally produced deformation 
microstructures and
(10) examination of organic/crystal interfaces during picoplankton 
biomineralization.

    In addition the instrument will be used in the course Theory and 
Techniques of Transmission Electron Microscopy to give students a basic 
understanding of its operation. Application Accepted by Commissioner of 
Customs: April 19, 1994.

    Docket Number: 94-055. Applicant: Virginia Commonwealth University, 
Medical College of Virginia Hospitals, MCV Box 980017, Richmond, VA 
23298-0024. Instrument: Electron Microscope, Model EM 900. 
Manufacturer: Carl Zeiss, Germany. Intended Use: The instrument will be 
used for the examination of tissue from Surgical Pathology for 
diagnostic purposes. In addition, the instrument will be used for 
training Pathology Residents. Application Accepted by Commissioner of 
Customs: April 21, 1994.

    Docket Number: 94-056. Applicant: Department of the Interior, U.S. 
Geological Survey WRD, 450 Main Street, room 525, Hartford, CT 06103. 
Instrument: Borehole Radar System. Manufacturer: ABEM AB, Sweden. 
Intended Use: The instrument will be used to study bedrock and 
unconsolidated overburden conditions in situ, from air- and water-
filled boreholes as small as two and one-half inches in diameter in 
order to conduct research into groundwater flow and contaminant 
transport in fractured rock. The research objectives include 
development of methods to detect and quantify the effects of bedrock 
fractures and lithologic changes on groundwater flow and development of 
methods to directly detect, quantify, and monitor groundwater 
contaminants in order to increase the efficiency of future remediation 
efforts to reduce the hazards of contamination to the public. 
Application Accepted by Commissioner of Customs: April 21, 1994.

    Docket Number: 94-057. Applicant: University of California, Los 
Alamos National Laboratory, P.O. Box 990, Los Alamos, NM 87545. 
Instrument: Optical Floating Zone System. Manufacturer: Vacuum 
Metallurgical Co., Ltd., Japan. Intended Use: The instrument will be 
used to grow single crystals of high melting point materials, so that 
the fundamental mechanical properties of these single crystals can then 
be investigated. Application Accepted by Commissioner of Customs: April 
21, 1994.
Pamela Woods,
Acting Director, Statutory Import Programs Staff.
[FR Doc. 94-11591 Filed 5-11-94; 8:45 am]
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