[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 86 (Wednesday, May 3, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Page 25708]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-10927]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration


Application for Duty-Free Entry of Scientific Instrument

    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 an 
instrument of equivalent scientific value, for the purposes for which 
the instrument shown below is intended to be used, is 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 P.M. in Room 4211, 
U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution Avenue, N.W., 
Washington, D.C.
    Docket Number: 00-009. Applicant: Purdue University, Department of 
Biological Sciences, Lilly Hall of Life Sciences, West Lafayette, IN 
47907-1392. Instrument: Electron Microscope, Model CM300. Manufacturer: 
Philips, The Netherlands. Intended Use: The instrument is intended to 
be used in cryoelectron microscopy studies to determine the structure 
of some biological complexes. Samples studied will include non-
icosahedral viruses, human rhinovirus, poliovirus, coxsackievirus, Ross 
River virus, Sindbis virus, Togavirus and Flavivirus families, Moloney 
murine leukemia virus, human papillomavirus, RNA-protein complexes, 
Band-3 protein in red blood cells, caveolae in the plasma membrane, KP4 
fungal toxin, protein-protein complexes, photosynthetic membranes, 
large proteins, Colicin and other transmembrane transport systems. In 
addition, the instrument will be used for educational purposes in the 
graduate level courses BIO595 and BMS517. Application accepted by 
Commissioner of Customs: April 14, 2000.

Frank W. Creel,
Director, Statutory Import Programs Staff.
[FR Doc. 00-10927 Filed 5-2-00; 8:45 am]
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