[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 97 (Thursday, May 20, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 27515-27516]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-12789]


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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 P.M. in Room 4211, 
U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution Avenue, NW, 
Washington, DC.

    Docket Number: 99-006. Applicant: Harvard University, 12 Oxford 
Street, Cambridge, MA 02138. Instrument: Electron Microscope, Model 
JEM-2010F. Manufacturer: JEOL Ltd., Japan. Intended Use: The instrument 
will be used to study mesoscale structure and chemical composition of 
novel materials such as semi-conducting nanowires, carbon nanotubes and 
nanometallic catalyst and polymers. The objectives of the 
investigations are to increase the

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understanding of mesoscale materials in several areas: their growth 
mechanism, chemical composition, phases and crystal structure, 
morphology and the quantum size effect. Application accepted by 
Commissioner of Customs: April 15, 1999.

    Docket Number: 99-007. Applicant: Baylor College of Medicine, One 
Baylor Plaza, Houston, TX 77030. Instrument: Electron Microscope and 
Accessories, Model JEM-3000F. Manufacturer: JEOL Ltd., Japan. Intended 
Use: The instrument will be used for studies of proteins, viruses, 
protein-nucleic acid complexes and membrane receptors, which are 
involved in a variety of biological processes in viral morphogenesis, 
signal transduction, ion and molecular transport and catalysis. The 
experiments will include direct imaging with the specimen embedded in 
vitreous ice and kept at liquid helium temperature (4K) during 
microscopic observations. The objectives of the investigations are to 
record a sufficiently large number of images of the ice-embedded 
biological particles in different orientations. Application accepted by 
Commissioner of Customs: April 27, 1999.

    Docket Number: 99-008. Applicant: University of California, San 
Diego, Cognitive Science Department, 9500 Gilman Drive 0515, La Jolla, 
CA 92093-0515. Instrument: Operant Testing System. Manufacturer: CeNeS 
Ltd., United Kingdom. Intended Use: The instrument will be used for 
studies of the neural basis of attention in rodents using previously 
developed research paradigms. The experiments will involve performance-
based measures of attentional function, a five-choice serial reaction 
time task, and a spatial orienting task. Application accepted by 
Commissioner of Customs: April 29, 1999.
Frank W. Creel,
Director, Statutory Import Programs Staff.
[FR Doc. 99-12789 Filed 5-19-99; 8:45 am]
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