[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 25 (Thursday, February 6, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 5619-5620]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-2880]
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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: 96-136. Applicant: Washington University, Department
of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Campus Box 1169, One Brookings Drive,
St. Louis, MO 63130-4899. Instrument: Mass Spectrometer, Model MAT 252.
Manufacturer: Finnigan MAT, Germany. Intended Use: The instrument is
intended to be used for investigations focusing on: (1) Understanding
the temporal variations in rivers and springs, (2) the behavior of
fossil hydrothermal systems, (3) the origin of granitic batholiths,
evaporation processes in lakes and other natural water bodies, (4)
isotopic tracing of subsurface fluids, climatic change and (5) isotopic
variations in calcareous organisms. In addition, the instrument will be
used for educational purposes in earth and planetary science courses.
Application accepted by Commissioner of Customs: December 11, 1996.
Docket Number: 96-139. Applicant: U. S. Department of Agriculture,
Agricultural Research Service, U. S. Water Conservation Laboratory,
4331 E. Broadway Road, Phoenix, AZ 85040-8832. Instrument: Mass
Spectrometer, Model Isochrom. Manufacturer: Micromass, Inc., United
Kingdom. Intended Use: The instrument will be used to analyze soil and
plant materials which contain stable isotopes of carbon and nitrogen
used as tracers to follow biological processes. Application accepted by
Commissioner of Customs: December 19, 1996.
Docket Number: 96-140. Applicant: Associated Universities, Inc.,
Brookhaven National Laboratory, Building 480, Upton, NY 11973.
Instrument: Electron Microscope with Accessories, Model JEM-3000F.
Manufacturer: JEOL, Ltd., Japan. Intended Use: The instrument will be
used to study high temperature superconductors, high field permanent
magnets and interfaces between metals and coatings. The preliminary
research plans include studies of: (a) Charge and charge transfer, (b)
microcomposition, atomic structure and charge distribution at grain
boundaries and interfaces and (c) local structural disorder by electron
diffuse scattering, imaging and computer simulation. Application
accepted by Commissioner of Customs: December 19, 1996.
Docket Number: 96-141. Applicant: Oregon Graduate Institute of
Science and Technology, P.O. Box 91000, Portland, OR 97291-1000.
Instrument: Stopped-Flow Spectrometer, Model SX.18MV. Manufacturer:
Applied Photophysics, Ltd., United Kingdom. Intended Use: The
instrument will be used to study the kinetic mechanism of wild-type and
mutant lignin-degrading peroxidases and other redox enzymes from wood-
degrading fungi. Application accepted by Commissioner of Customs:
December 19, 1996.
Docket Number: 96-142. Applicant: The University of Tennessee,
Knoxville, Department of Physics and Astronomy, 401 Nielsen Physics
Building, Knoxville, TN 37996-1200. Instrument: Energy Analyzer and
Power Supply, Model SES-200. Manufacturer: Scienta Instrument AB,
Sweden. Intended Use: The instrument will be used to uncover new
physical and chemical phenomena
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at the surface or in thin films, such as the existence of charge
density wave distortions at the surface, Fermi surface instabilities
and metal-to-nonmetal transitions in thin films. The low electron
energy capabilities of the instrument will be used to investigate the
development of collective excitations in thin films and to probe the
bulk properties of correlated electron systems containing metals or
rare earth elements. Application accepted by Commissioner of Customs:
December 19, 1996.
Docket Number: 96-143. Applicant: University of Alabama, Center for
Materials for Information Technology, P.O. Box 870209, Tuscaloosa, AL
35487-0209. Instrument: Auger XPS Spectrometer. Manufacturer: Kratos
Analytical, Inc. Intended Use: The instrument will be used to conduct
materials research of soft FeXN films, magnetic nanostructures, giant
magnetoresistance, exchange coupling, high coercivity films, wear
characteristics, corrosion, magnetic particles and composites. In
addition, the instrument will be used for educational purposes in
metallurgical and materials engineering courses. Application accepted
by Commissioner of Customs: December 23, 1996.
Frank W. Creel,
Director, Statutory Import Programs Staff.
[FR Doc. 97-2880 Filed 2-5-97; 8:45 am]
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