[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 156 (Monday, August 12, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 41773-41774]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-20503]


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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: 96-071. Applicant: University of California, Los 
Alamos National Laboratory, P.O. Box 990, Los Alamos, NM 87545. 
Instrument: ICP Mass Spectrometer, Model PlasmaQuad. Manufacturer: 
Fisons Instruments, United Kingdom. Intended Use: The instrument will 
be used to study the transport of ultra low level contaminants in the 
environment, and trace composition of high purity materials, soils, 
waters, aerosols in air and biological tissues. Application accepted by 
Commissioner of Customs: July 5, 1996.
    Docket Number: 96-072. Applicant: Penn State University, 118 
Research Building West, University Park, PA 16802. Instrument: Nano 
Indentor System, Model UMIS 2001. Manufacturer: CISRO, Australia. 
Intended Use: The instrument will be used to study interfacial 
phenomena in engineering materials and the information gathered will be 
used in mathematical models and will be applied to the design of 
superior alloys. It is planned to study the mechanical properties of 
materials as a function of precise location within the microstructure. 
In addition, the instrument will be used for educational purposes in 
the courses Esci 414M, Esci 497D, Esci 475, Esci 410H. Application 
accepted by Commissioner of Customs: July 5, 1996.
    Docket Number: 96-073. Applicant: University of California, 
Accounting Office, 400 University Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720. Instrument: 
High Pressure Freezing Machine, Model HPM 010. Manufacturer: Bal-Tec, 
Inc., Liechtenstein. Intended Use: The instrument will be used to 
freeze a wide variety of cells and tissues, including Drosophila 
embryos and Arabidopsis plant tissues. In addition, the instrument will 
be used in electron microscopy courses that teach all the techniques, 
including rapid freezing, needed to prepare samples and examine them in 
the electron microscope. Application accepted by Commissioner of 
Customs: July 11, 1996.
    Docket Number: 96-074. Applicant: The Association of Universities 
for Research in Astronomy, Inc., 1625 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, 
Washington, DC 20036. Instrument: 8M Optical Telescope Primary Mirror. 
Manufacturer: REOSC Optique, France. Intended Use: The instrument will 
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used with a telescope which is used by the international astronomical 
community to advance basic research and scientific opportunities 
involving star birth, origins of heavy elements, galaxy formation, the 
early universe, etc. Application accepted by Commissioner of Customs: 
July 12, 1996.
    Docket Number: 96-075. Applicant: University of Illinois at Urbana-
Champaign, Purchasing Division, 506 South Wright Street, 207 Henry 
Administration Building, Urbana, IL 61801. Instrument: Eye Tracking 
System, Model EYELINK. Manufacturer: SR Research Ltd., Canada. Intended 
Use: The instrument will be used to study various aspects of human eye 
movements while performing various visual performance tasks including 
flight instrument panel usage. Other experiments will involve looking 
at the effects of aging on eye movement for visual perception. 
Application accepted by Commissioner of Customs: July 15, 1996.
    Docket Number: 96-076. Applicant: University of Illinois at Urbana-
Champaign, Purchasing Division, 506 South Wright Street, 207 Henry 
Administration Building, Urbana, IL 61801. Instrument: Eye Tracking 
System, Model EYELINK. Manufacturer: SR Research Ltd., Canada. Intended 
Use: The instrument will be used to measure eye-gaze positions and 
detect small saccades (quick, high velocity eye movements) during the 
visual perception of natural speech in real time as an observer moves 
or talks. Application accepted by Commissioner of Customs: July 15, 
1996.
    Docket Number: 96-077. Applicant: University of Illinois at Urbana-
Champaign, Purchasing Division, 506 South Wright Street, 207 Henry 
Administration Building, Urbana, IL 61801. Instrument: Eye Tracking 
System, Model EYELINK. Manufacturer: SR Research Ltd., Canada. Intended 
Use: The instrument will be used to study eye movements of people as 
they read and look at pictures and to examine the eye movements of 
people who are seeking information in a 3-D virtual reality 
environment. Application accepted by Commissioner of Customs: July 15, 
1996.
Frank W. Creel,
Director, Statutory Import Programs Staff.
[FR Doc. 96-20503 Filed 8-9-96; 8:45 am]
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