[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 247 (Thursday, December 24, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 71268-71269]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-34158]


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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, DC 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: 98-064. Applicant: University of Colorado, P.O. Box 
173364, Denver, CO 80217. Instrument: Ammonia Flux Analyzer, Model 
AMANDA-100. Manufacturer: ECN Fuels, The Netherlands. Intended Use: The 
instrument is intended to be used for the study of ammonia exchange 
fluxes and the comparison of deciduous forest exchange with coniferous 
forest exchange. Application accepted by Commissioner of Customs: 
November 30, 1998.
    Docket Numbers: 98-065 and 98-066. Applicant: Montana State 
University, Physics Department, EPS Building, Bozeman, MT 59717-3840. 
Instrument: (2) Optical Helium Cryostats. Manufacturer: Institute of 
Physics, Ukraine, CIS. Intended Use: These instruments are both 
replacements for an optical helium cryostat previously entered free of 
duty to be used to perform both spectroscopic and holographic 
experiments and various combinations thereof. These experiments will 
involve the study of (1) crystalline and polymeric dye-doped materials 
which show complicated photochemical transformation behavior

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at low temperatures and (2) the dependence of these processes on 
temperature and on the illumination conditions. Applications accepted 
by Commissioner of Customs: November 30, 1998.
Frank W. Creel,
Director, Statutory Import Programs Staff.
[FR Doc. 98-34158 Filed 12-23-98; 8:45 am]
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