[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 125 (Wednesday, June 30, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 35126-35127]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-16548]


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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: 99-012. Applicant: Texas A&M University, Purchasing 
Department, Room 337B Zachry Engineering Building, College Station, TX 
77843-3122. Instrument: Densitometer and Balance. Manufacturer: 
Rubotherm, Germany. Intended Use: The instrument is intended to be used 
to measure corrosive materials such as hydrogen sulfide, polar solvents 
such as acetylnitrile, asphalts and aggregate materials during 
experiments conducted with the objective of understanding the strength 
and durability of asphalt

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aggregate pavements and fluid properties relevant to deep off-shore oil 
and gas production. Application accepted by Commissioner of Customs: 
June 4, 1999.

    Docket Number: 99-013. Applicant: the University of Texas, M.D. 
Anderson Cancer Center, 1515 Holcombe Boulevard, Box 173, Houston, TX 
77030. Instrument: Electron Microscope, Model JEM-1010. Manufacturer: 
JOEL Ltd., Japan. Intended Use: The instrument is intended to be used 
to examine normal and pathologic tissues obtained from human patients 
and experimental animals, tissue culture cells, viruses, polymers 
containing biological and chemotherapeutic agents. It will be used for 
ultrastructure of human and animal tumors. In addition, the instrument 
will be used to teach graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, visiting 
scientists and faculty members the techniques of electron microscopy 
and ultrastructural analysis. Application accepted by Commissioner of 
Customs: June 10, 1999.
Frank W. Creel,
Director, Statutory Import Programs Staff.
[FR Doc. 99-16548 Filed 6-29-99; 8:45 am]
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