[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 116 (Friday, June 14, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 30220-30221]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-15098]
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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, 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: 96-048. Applicant: U.S. Department of Agriculture,
Agricultural Research Service, National Forage Seed Production Research
Center, 3450 SW Campus Way, Corvallis, OR 97331-7102. Instrument: Mass
Spectrometer System, Model Europa 20-20. Manufacturer: Europa
Scientific, Inc, United Kingdom. Intended Use: The instrument will be
used to determine fertilizer nitrogen in organic and inorganic forms in
soil, water and plant samples. It will also be used to determine
gaseous products that are involved in soil metabolism and respiration
and are lost from soils into the atmosphere. The objective of the
experiments to be conducted will be to improve the understanding of how
agricultural management practices affect the chemical and biochemical
transformations of nitrogen and carbon in water, soils and plants.
Application accepted by Commissioner of Customs: May 6, 1996.
Docket Number: 96-049. Applicant: University of California at San
Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, 9500 Gilman Drive, La
Jolla, CA 92093. Instrument: Mass Spectrometer, Model VG Sector 54.
Manufacturer: VG Isotech, United Kingdom. Intended Use: The instrument
will be used in the study of geological materials and natural waters to
examine the isotopic composition of certain elements in these samples.
The main objectives of the experiments conducted will be to examine the
time scales of geologic processes (i.e., dating studies) or to use
isotopic compositions of the materials being studied as tracers of
geologic processes. In addition, the instrument will be used for
educational purposes in the courses: SIO252C: Isotope Geochemistry,
SIO299: Independent Research and ES144: Introduction to Isotope
Geochemistry. Application accepted by Commissioner of Customs: May 7,
1996.
Docket Number: 96-050. Applicant: University of Michigan,
Transportation Research Institute, 2901 Baxter Road, Ann Arbor, MI
48109-2150. Instrument: (10) Infrared Headway Sensor Systems, Model
ODIN 4F MS. Manufacturer: Leica AG, Switzerland. Intended Use: The
instrument will be used in a study through which a total of ten
passenger cars are outfitted and tested with ICC systems. A set of
current ``issues'' pertaining to system features, duration of ICC
acclimation period, driver characteristics, traffic environments, etc.
will be incorporated into the study. The objectives of this
investigation are: (1) Test the ability of a vehicle to maintain
automatically a safe level of speed and distance between it and
preceding vehicles, (2) evaluate improvements in safety, (3) evaluate
the potential for decreasing the number and severity of rear end
collisions and (4) evaluate the safety impact of the level of
convenience which may be higher than is normally offered with standard
cruise control. Application accepted by Commissioner of Customs: May
10, 1996.
Docket Number: 96-051. Applicant: Yale University School of
Medicine, Department of Cell Biology, 333 Cedar Street, New Haven, CT
06520-8002. Instrument: Free-Flow Electrophoresis Device, Model OCTOPUS
PZE. Manufacturer: Dr. Weber GmbH, Germany. Intended Use: The
instrument will be used for the separation and isolation of subcellular
components from mammalian cells and tissues. Experiments will involve
the disruption of various types of cells and the injection of cell
homogenates into the FFE chamber for the purpose of collecting
individual organelles for biochemical and functional analysis.
Application accepted by Commissioner of Customs: May 10, 1996.
Docket Number: 96-052. Applicant: North Carolina State University,
Campus Box 7212, Raleigh, NC 27695-7212. Instrument: ISOCMS Accessory
for Microanalyzer. Manufacturer: CAMECA Instruments, France. Intended
Use: The instrument will be used in conjunction with a microanalyzer to
help facilitate determination of the levels of impurities to the PPB
and PPT level in materials of engineering importance using the SIMS
techniques of dynamic depth profiling, static surface analysis, three
dimensional depth profiling, surface mapping, etc. Application accepted
by Commissioner of Customs: May 13, 1996.
Docket Number: 96-053. Applicant: Wayne State University, 540
Canfield Avenue, Detroit, MI 48201. Instrument: Electron Microscope,
Model JEM-1010. Manufacturer: JEOL Ltd., Japan. Intended Use: The
instrument will be used for morphological examination of ocular
(cornea, retina and lens), neuronal (brain and spinal cord) and lung
tissues. Cellular mechanisms of the action of bacterial toxins in vitro
will also be studied. Application accepted by Commissioner of Customs:
May 14, 1996.
Docket Number: 96-054. Applicant: University of Georgia, National
Environmentally Sound Production Agriculture Laboratory, Administration
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Building, Coastal Plain Experiment Station, Moore Highway, Trifton, GA
31794. Instrument: Ground Conductivity Meter, Model EM38. Manufacturer:
Geonics Ltd., Canada. Intended Use: The instrument will be used for
studies of subsurface discontinuities in soil properties. Application
accepted by Commissioner of Customs: May 15, 1996.
Docket Number: 96-055. Applicant: The Pennsylvania State
University, Department of Geosciences, 503 Deike Building, University
Park, PA 16802. Instrument: Mass Spectrometer, Model MAT 252.
Manufacturer: Finnigan MAT, Germany. Intended Use: The instrument will
be used to analyze the isotopic composition of fossil air samples
extracted from polar ice cores. The data from these experiments will
provide the means of reconstructing the composition of the past
atmosphere over the last 250,000 years. The objective of the proposed
work will be to better understand the factors which influence the
biogeochemical cycling of carbon, oxygen and nitrogen in the natural
environment. In addition, the instrument will be used in several
geoscience courses for demonstrating various techniques used during the
acquisition of stable isotope ratios of various air samples.
Application accepted by Commissioner of Customs: May 20, 1996.
Docket Number: 96-056. Applicant: Princeton University, PO Box 33,
Princeton, NJ 08544-0033. Instrument: Electrical Capacitance Tomography
Unit, Model PTL 300-TP-G. Manufacturer: Process Tomography, Ltd.,
United Kingdom. Intended Use: The instrument will be used to study the
mechanics of flow of solid particles consisting of sand grains of about
100 microns in diameters or standard aluminosilicate particles of
comparable dimensions suspended in a gas. Application accepted by
Commissioner of Customs: May 23, 1996.
Docket Number: 96-057. Applicant: University of Iowa, Mass
Spectrometry Facility, 71 Chemistry Building, Iowa City, IA 52242.
Instrument: Magnetic Sector Mass Spectrometer, Model VG AutoSpec.
Manufacturer: Micromass, Inc., United Kingdom. Intended Use: The
instrument will be used primarily for structural studies of organic,
organometallic, inorganic and biochemical compounds to determine
molecular weight, elemental composition, and other details crucial to
the characterization and structure determination of a wide variety of
natural and synthetic chemical compounds encountered in research.
Application accepted by Commissioner of Customs: May 23, 1996.
Frank W. Creel,
Director, Statutory Import Programs Staff.
[FR Doc. 96-15098 Filed 6-13-96; 8:45 am]
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