[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 148 (Wednesday, July 31, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Page 39948]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-19473]


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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: 96-067. Applicant: Woods Hole Oceanographic 
Institution, 266 Woods Hole Road, Woods Hole, MA 02543. Instrument: 5 
Window Beta Detector with Anticoincidence, Model GM-25-5. Manufacturer: 
Risoe National Laboratory, Denmark. Intended Use: The instrument will 
be used for sampling the ocean at different depths to estimate carbon 
fluxes out of the upper water. This is a number that needs to be 
plugged into ocean/atmosphere models to estimate such things as global 
warming. Application accepted by Commissioner of Customs: June 19, 
1996.
    Docket Number: 96-068. Applicant: The University of Vermont, 
Burlington, VT 05405. Instrument: Multisample Inlet Manifold for Mass 
Spectrometer. Manufacturer: Pro-Vac Services, United Kingdom. Intended 
Use: The instrument is an accessory used to automate sample analysis 
performed with a mass spectrometer which will increase the daily sample 
processing. The mass spectrometer is used to determine stable isotope 
abundances of the elements C, O, N and S in natural materials for a 
variety of environmental, biological and ecological research projects. 
In addition, the accessory will be used for educational purposes in the 
course Environmental Isotope Geochemistry. Application accepted by 
Commissioner of Customs: June 20, 1996.
    Docket Number: 96-069. Applicant: Arizona State University, 
Department of Zoology, Box 871501, Tempe, AZ 85287-1501. Instrument: 
Image Analysis System with Macro Accessory Package. Manufacturer: 
Imaging Research Inc., Canada. Intended Use: The instrument will be 
used for in situ hybridization studies and in vitro receptor 
autoradiography. The neurochemical data will be analyzed at various 
levels of neuroanatomical detail. These experiments will be conducted 
to determine how stress alters the major neurotransmitter systems in 
the hippocampus in the hope of understanding how stress alters the 
functional status of the hippocampus. Application accepted by 
Commissioner of Customs: June 26, 1996.
    Docket Number: 96-070. Applicant: Massachusetts Institute of 
Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139. Instrument: 
Compact Geotechnical Centrifuge. Manufacturer: Chiker Technologies, 
United Kingdom. Intended Use: The instrument will be used to conduct 
experimental investigations of problems involving soil and groundwater 
behavior. Experiments will be conducted to examine how contaminants 
move through soil bodies under a variety of different conditions and 
under the influence of different body forces. In addition, the 
experiments will be conducted to investigate the performance of 
different in situ remediation technologies, such as ``pump-and-treat,'' 
air-sparging and surfactant flushing, that are available for cleaning 
up contaminated soil sites. The instrument will also be used in the 
course Introduction to Geotechnical Engineering that teaches the 
fundamentals of soil behavior and soil-structure interaction. 
Application accepted by Commissioner of Customs: June 26, 1996.
Frank W. Creel,
Director Statutory Import Programs Staff.
[FR Doc. 96-19473 Filed 7-30-96; 8:45 am]
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