[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 96 (Tuesday, May 19, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 27562-27563]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-13308]


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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, 
NW, Washington, DC.
    Docket Number: 97-095R. Applicant: Stanford University, Stanford 
Medical Center, 300 Pasteur Drive, Room 5302, Palo Alto, CA 94304. 
Instrument: Ultrasound Bone Densitometer. Manufacturer: McCue Plc, 
United Kingdom. Intended Use: Original notice of this resubmitted 
application was published in the Federal Register of December 15, 1997.

    Docket Number: 98-024. Applicant: University of Michigan, 
Transportation Research Institute, 2910 Baxter Road, Ann Arbor, MI 
48109-2150. Instrument: (3) Sensor Sets, Model ODIN 4. Manufacturer: 
A.D.C. GmbH, Germany. Intended Use: The instrument is intended to be 
used in a scientific study in which vehicles equipped with these 
sensors will be driven by human subjects to evaluate the performance of 
headway control systems. Application accepted by Commissioner of 
Customs: April 21, 1998.

    Docket Number: 98-025. Applicant: University of California, 
Berkeley, Berkeley CA 94720. Instrument: Electron Detector. 
Manufacturer: Gammadata/Scienta AB, Sweden. Intended Use: The 
instrument will be used in angle-resolved photoemission experiments 
with the objective of studying the electronic structure and physical 
properties of superconducting

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materials. In addition, the instrument will be used to train graduate 
students in their thesis research. All results will be made public and 
published in scientific journals. Application accepted by Commissioner 
of Customs: April 30, 1998.
Frank W. Creel,
Director, Statutory Import Programs Staff.
[FR Doc. 98-13308 Filed 5-18-98; 8:45 am]
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