[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 10 (Wednesday, January 15, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Page 2133]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-924]


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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: 96-125. Applicant: Smithsonian Institution, National 
Zoological Park, 3800 Connecticut Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20005. 
Instrument: Biological Cryostage, Model BCS 196. Manufacturer: Linkam 
Scientific Instruments Ltd., United Kingdom. Intended Use: The 
instrument will be used to develop optimal sperm cryopreservation 
protocols in endangered species. It will be compatible with an existing 
videomicroscope, permitting both direct observation and video 
documentation of sperm visibility during the freeze-thaw process. 
Application accepted by Commissioner of Customs: November 26, 1996.
    Docket Number: 96-126. Applicant: Cornell University, Purchasing 
Department, 55 Judd Falls Road, Ithaca, NY 14850. Instrument: IR Mass 
Spectrometer, Model Deltaplus. Manufacturer: Finnigan MAT, 
Germany. Intended Use: The instrument will be used for the high 
precision determination of stable isotopes of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, 
nitrogen, and sulfur during studies of (1) water and CO\2\ flux in 
environmental systems, (2) plant-water-atmosphere relationships and (3) 
artificially enriched carbon, trace gases, and isotopes in carbonates. 
Application accepted by Commissioner of Customs: November 26, 1996.
    Docket Number: 96-127. Applicant: U. S. Geological Survey, Box 
25046, MS 963, Denver Federal Center, Denver, CO 80225. Instrument: SIR 
Mass Spectrometer with Automated Sample Peripherals, Model Optima. 
Manufacturer: Micromass, United Kingdom. Intended Use: The instrument 
will be used during investigations to determine the stable isotope 
composition of the appropriate geological waters, rocks and minerals to 
further the understanding of the history of the earth's climate and 
wide range of geological and environmental processes. An additional use 
of the instrument will be to develop the capability of analyzing 
extremely small samples for stable isotope compositions using domestic 
manufactured lasers for microsampling. Application accepted by 
Commissioner of Customs: December 2, 1996.
    Docket Number: 96-128. Applicant: Montana State University, 
Microbiology Department, 109 Lewis Hall, P.O. Box 17352, Bozeman, MT 
59717-0352. Instrument: Real-time Microbial Analysis System, Model 
ChemScan. Manufacturer: Chemunex SA, France. Intended Use: The 
instrument will be used to count the numbers of bacteria in samples of 
water, wastewater, soil, sediment, food, beverage and other similar 
materials. In addition, the instrument will be used for graduate and 
undergraduate student research and training. Application accepted by 
Commissioner of Customs: December 2, 1996.
    Docket Number: 96-130. Applicant: State University of New York, 
Research Foundation, Stony Brook, NY 11794. Instrument: Mass 
Spectrometer, Model Deltaplus. Manufacturer: Finnigan MAT, 
Germany. Intended Use: The instrument will be used for studies 
concerning the relative abundances of the isotopes carbon-12 to carbon-
13, oxygen-18 to oxygen-16, hydrogen-1 to hydrogen-2, nitrogen-14 to 
nitrogen-15, and sulfur-34 to sulfur-36 in gas phase compounds, 
including atmospheric carbon monoxide, atmospheric methane, sulfur 
hexafluoride, molecular nitrogen, and molecular oxygen. In addition, 
the instrument will be used for hands on instruction of mass 
spectrometry and will be available to graduate students pursuing 
advanced degrees in the earth sciences. Application accepted by 
Commissioner of Customs: December 4, 1996.
Frank W. Creel,
Director Statutory Import Programs Staff.
[FR Doc. 97-924 Filed 1-14-97; 8:45 am]
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