[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 189 (Friday, September 29, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Pages 50554-50555]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-24308]



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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: 95-078. Applicant: University of California, Davis, 
Exercise Science Department, 264 Hickey Gym, Davis, CA 95616. 
Instrument: Nitrogen Analyzer, Model N2-TEST. Manufacturer: Erich 
Jaeger, Germany. Intended Use: The instrument will be used to measure 
nitrogen concentration in rebreathed air containing 100% oxygen in 
order to determine residual lung volume to provide a more accurate 
assessment of the percentage of body fat in humans by subtracting from 
weight loss in underwater weighing. Application Accepted by 
Commissioner of Customs: August 29, 1995.
    Docket Number: 95-081. Applicant: University of Rhode Island, 
Graduate School of Oceanography, South Ferry Road, Narragansett, RI 
02882-1997. Instrument: ICP Mass Spectrometer, Model Element. 
Manufacturer: Finnigan MAT, Germany. Intended Use: The instrument will 
be used for studies of oceanographic, geological and atmospheric 
samples that will be analyzed for a wide range of elemental and 
isotopic abundances. In addition, the instrument will be used in a 
graduate level course in Marine Isotope Geochemistry to expose students 
to the fundamentals of isotopic tracers used in chemical oceanography. 
Application Accepted by Commissioner of Customs: August 30, 1995.
    Docket Number: 95-082. Applicant: University of Maryland at College 
Park, Institute for Plasma Research, 1202K Energy Research Facility, 
College Park, MD 20742. Instrument: Pulsed Surface Plasma Source and 
Power Supply. Manufacturer: Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics, CIS. 
Intended Use: The instrument will be used to produce very high quality 
ion beams required to advance the present state-of-the art of ion 
project lithography. Application Accepted by Commissioner of Customs: 
August 30, 1995.
    Docket Number: 95-083. Applicant: Continuous Electron Beam 
Accelerator Facility, 12000 Jefferson Avenue, Newport News, VA 23606. 
Instrument: 

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Gas Cherenkov Counters for Hall A Magnetic Spectrometers. Manufacturer: 
CEA/DSM, France. Intended Use: The instrument will be used for studies 
of nucleons, nuclei, pions and Kaons and nucleon excited states. In 
addition, the instrument will be used for educational purposes in a 
graduate course in experimental nuclear physics. Application Accepted 
by Commissioner of Customs: September 7, 1995.
    Docket Number: 95-084. Applicant: Federal Highway Administration, 
Special Projects & Engineering Division, HNR-20, 6300 Georgetown Pike, 
McLean, VA 22101. Instrument: Automatic Non-Contact Aggregate 
Graduation Device, Model VDG 40. Manufacturer: Yernaux Pesage, France. 
Intended Use: The instrument will be used to evaluate mineral aggregate 
materials used in pavement construction. Application Accepted by 
Commissioner of Customs: September 11, 1995.
    Docket Number: 95-085. Applicant: University of Wisconsin - Eau 
Claire, Eau Claire, WI 54702. Instrument: Absorbance and Fluorescence 
Stopped-Flow Spectrophotometer, Model SX-17MV. Manufacturer: Applied 
Photophysics, Ltd., United Kingdom. Intended Use: The instrument will 
be used to study the rates of electron transfer reactions of organic, 
inorganic, biological, and organometallic molecules to determine how 
differences in the structural, physical, and chemical properties of the 
reacting materials control their rates of reaction. Application 
Accepted by Commissioner of Customs: September 11, 1995.


Frank W. Creel
Director, Statutory Import Programs Staff
[FR Doc. 95-24308 Filed 9-28-95; 8:45 am]
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