[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 221 (Wednesday, November 15, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Page 68981]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-29255]



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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: 00-035. Applicant: Washington University School of 
Medicine, Department of Anesthesiology Research Unit, 660 South Euclid, 
Campus Box 8054, St. Louis, MO 63110. Instrument: Motorized 
Manipulator. Manufacturer: Luigs and Neumann, Germany. Intended Use: 
The instrument will be used to move the microelectrode for patch 
clamping the synaptic terminal during studies of synaptic connections 
between neurons to determine the electrical properties of a synapse in 
the auditory system in the rat. Application accepted by Commissioner of 
Customs: October 20, 2000.
    Docket Number: 00-036. Applicant: University of Wisconsin-Madison, 
Electrical and Computer Engineering, 1415 Engineering Drive, Madison, 
WI 53706. Instrument: Telecommunications Instrumentation Modeling 
System, Model TIMS-301. Manufacturer: Emona Instruments Pty Ltd., 
Australia. Intended Use: The instrument will be used in the creation of 
an undergraduate communication laboratory as companion courses to the 
undergraduate communications systems sequence, ECE436 and ECE437. Such 
laboratories are essential to prepare students for the communications 
industry. Students in these courses will use the system to simulate 
different modulations and demodulation techniques by constructing 
modems. The planned experiments will reinforce the theory presented in 
the classroom and provide students with hands-on-experience. 
Application accepted by Commissioner of Customs: October 20, 2000.

Gerald A. Zerdy,
Program Manager, Statutory Import Programs Staff.
[FR Doc. 00-29255 Filed 11-14-00; 8:45 am]
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