[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 4 (Wednesday, January 7, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Page 809]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-274]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration


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: 97-096. Applicant: Princeton University, Purchasing, 
P.O. 33, Armory Building, 110 Washington Road, Princeton, NJ 08544-
0033. Instrument: Crystal Growth Furnace, Model FZ-T-10000-HVP-II-P. 
Manufacturer: Crystal Systems Inc., Japan. Intended Use: The instrument 
will be used to study the detailed properties of transition metal 
oxides which undergo metal insulator and magnetic transitions at both 
the charge transfer and Mott-Hubbard regimes. Spin ladder compounds, 
another important topic of current research in Materials Physics, will 
also be investigated through the use of single crystals grown in the 
floating zone apparatus. Application accepted by Commissioner of 
Customs: November 13, 1997.
    Docket Number: 97-097. Applicant: North Carolina State University, 
Campus Box 7212, Raleigh, NC 27695. Instrument: Sample Cartridges for 
Photoelectron Emission Microscope. Manufacturer: Elmitec, Germany. 
Intended Use: The instrument is part of an existing photoelectron 
emission microscope system that will be used to mount and process 
samples. Specifically, it will allow mounting the sample to the sample 
manipulator, to a sample, transfer rod, and a sample manipulator in an 
MBE processing system. Application accepted by Commissioner of Customs: 
December 5, 1997.
    Docket Number: 97-098. Applicant: University of Vermont, Department 
of Medicine, Given Building, Burlington, VT 05405. Instrument: Special 
Laboratory Glass. Manufacturer: Louwers Hapert Glasstechnics BV, The 
Netherlands. Intended Use: The instrument will be used to assemble 
tubes which are used in the reduction of water to hydrogen by the zinc 
reduction method. In this case, the hydrogen released by this method 
will be analyzed by mass spectrometry to determine the amount of 
deuterium in each sample. Application accepted by Commissioner of 
Customs: December 4, 1997.
Frank W. Creel,


Director, Statutory Import Programs Staff.

[FR Doc. 98-274 Filed 1-6-98; 8:45 am]
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