[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 108 (Tuesday, June 4, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 28174-28175]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-13970]



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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,

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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: 95-114R. Applicant: Research Triangle Institute, 
3040 Cornwallis Road, Research Triangle, NC 27709. Instrument: (2) ICP 
Mass Spectrometers, Model PlasmaQuad 2. Manufacturer: Fisons 
Instruments, Inc, United Kingdom. Intended Use: Original notice of this 
resubmitted application was published in the Federal Register of 
December 14, 1995.
    Docket Number: 96-043. Applicant: The University of Chicago, 5841 
S. Maryland Avenue, Chicago, IL 60637. Instrument: Autosampler, Model 
A200S. Manufacturer: Finnigan Corp., Germany. Intended Use: The 
instrument will be installed on an existing gas chromatograph/mass 
spectrometer for the analysis of biochemical products for human 
nutrition research. These biochemicals will be obtained from humans to 
trace the metabolism of nutrients in the human body in studies with the 
objectives of understanding the biochemical mechanisms of nutritionally 
related disease. Application Accepted by Commissioner of Customs: April 
19, 1996.
    Docket Number: 96-044. Applicant: University of California, Los 
Angeles, Plasma Physics Laboratory, 405 Hilgard Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 
90095-1547. Instrument: Ti:Sapphire Laser. Manufacturer: MBP 
Technologies, Inc., Canada. Intended Use: The instrument will be used 
as the illuminator of a lidar system principally to range off the Ca+, 
Fe, N2+, N2* layers in the ionosphere. The phenomena studied are 
changes in the Ca+, Fe, N2+, N2* densities in the ionosphere due to 
auroral conditions and changes in these densities. In addition, the 
instrument will be used for educational purposes in graduate level 
independent research courses. Application Accepted by Commissioner of 
Customs: April 19, 1996.
    Docket Number: 96-045. Applicant: Monell Chemical Senses Center, 
3500 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104-3308. Instrument: Xenon 
Flashlamp System, Model XF-10. Manufacturer: Hi-Tech Scientific, United 
Kingdom. Intended Use: The instrument will be used in 
electrophysiological studies of signal transduction in vertebrate 
olfactory receptor neurons to characterize the molecular mechanisms by 
which odorant molecules differentially activate olfactory receptor 
neurons. Application Accepted by Commissioner of Customs: April 19, 
1996.
    Docket Number: 96-046. Applicant: Smithsonian Institution, National 
Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC 20560. Instrument: Electron 
Microprobe, Model JXA-8900R. Manufacturer: JEOL, Japan. Intended Use: 
The instrument will be used for studies of the chemical composition, 
elemental distribution of geological materials and various museum 
objects. Experiments will consist of focussing on a high voltage 
electron beam on a solid sample (usually a polished grain mount or thin 
section), generating characteristic x-rays, and measuring these x-rays 
quantitatively with wavelength and energy dispersive spectrometers. 
Application Accepted by Commissioner of Customs: April 30, 1996.
    Docket Number: 96-047. Applicant: University of Wisconsin-Madison, 
Integrated Microscopy Resource, 1525 Linden Drive, Madison, WI 53706. 
Instrument: Electron Microscope, Model EM 912 Omega. Manufacturer: LEO 
Electron Microscopy, Germany. Intended Use: The instrument will be used 
to study a variety of biological specimens to determine the detailed 
structural consequences to a particular tissue of a specific 
experimental manipulation. The instrument will also be used to 
determine the elemental composition of a biological specimen as well as 
to provide images of its ultrastructure. Application Accepted by 
Commissioner of Customs: May 2, 1996.
Frank W. Creel,
Director, Statutory Import Programs Staff.
[FR Doc. 96-13970 Filed 6-3-96; 8:45 am]
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