[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 159 (Wednesday, August 16, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Page 49966]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-20832]


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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 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 5:00 P.M. in Room 
4211, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution Avenue, 
N.W., Washington, D.C.
    Docket Number: 00-023. Applicant: Yeshiva University, Albert 
Einstein College of Medicine, 1300 Morris Park Avenue, Bronx, NY 10461. 
Instrument: Q Pix Colony Picker. Manufacturer: Genetix Ltd., United 
Kingdom. Intended Use: The instrument is intended to be used for as a 
robotic instrument for picking clones from sub clone libraries made 
from BACs, which have been selected for sequencing. Application 
accepted by Commissioner of Customs: July 26, 2000.
    Docket Number: 00-026. Applicant: The University of Texas at San 
Antonio, Division of Life Sciences, Cajal Center for Neuroscience, 6900 
North Loop 1604 West, San Antonio, TX 78249-0662. Instrument: Electron 
Microscope, Model JEM-1230. Manufacturer: JEOL Ltd., Japan. Intended 
Use: The instrument is intended to be used to study ultrastructural 
features of biological research specimens from experimental animals, 
cultured cells and viruses. The research projects include but are not 
limited to:
    1. Examination of the synapses on dendrites of granule neurons.
    2. Study of synaptogenesis as a result of high frequency granule 
cell activity.
    3. Ultrastructural analysis of mosquito cells infected with a 
neurotrophic mosquito-born alpha virus.
    4. Study of the axonal trajectories of interneurons and their 
targets.
    5. Structural studies examining the uptake of angiotensin II by 
vascular smooth muscle cells.
    6. Characterization of an in vitro model of central nervous system 
myelination.
    7. Examination of the deposition and expression of the protein BIH-
H3 and
    8. Study of the mechanisms of potentiating neurotransmitters in 
striatal degeneration by examining ultrastructure.
    Application accepted by Commissioner of Customs: August 3, 2000.

Frank W. Creel,
Director, Statutory Import Programs Staff.
[FR Doc. 00-20832 Filed 8-15-00; 8:45 am]
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