[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 16 (Wednesday, January 24, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Pages 7626-7627]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-2058]


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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: 00-039. Applicant: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 
110 Eighth Street, Troy, NY 12180-3590. Instrument: Electron 
Microscope, Model JEM-2010. Manufacturer: JEOL Ltd., Japan. Intended 
Use: The instrument is intended to be used to determine the morphology, 
elemental composition, crystal structure, long/short range ordering and 
microcrystalline structures during studies of the physics-chemical 
properties of inorganic and polymer materials including minerals, 
ceramics or other particulates, semiconductors, composites, alloys and 
polymers. Application accepted by Commissioner of Customs: December 15, 
2000.

    Docket Number: 00-040. Applicant: The University of Chicago, 
Operator of Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 S. Cass Avenue, Argonne, 
IL 60439. Instrument: UHV Scanning Tunneling Microscope/Atomic Force 
Microscope. Manufacturer: Omicron Vakuumphysik GmbH, Germany. Intended 
Use: The instrument is intended to be coupled to an existing molecular 
beam epitaxy chamber in ultra-high vacuum and used to characterize 
magnetic surfaces and self-assembled metallic and insulating 
nanostructures. The studies will include investigation of growth 
morphology in a large area of micron size and detailed structure with 
atomic resolution in a small area. The goal of these studies is to 
understand the formation of nanostructures during growth, and to gain 
fundamental understanding of the novel magnetic phenomena in nanoscale 
systems. Application accepted by Commissioner of Customs: December 15, 
2000.

    Docket Number: 00-041. Applicant: Massachusetts Institute of 
Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Room 8-309, Cambridge, MA 02139. 
Instrument: Nanoindentor. Manufacturer: Micro Materials Ltd., United 
Kingdom. Intended Use: The instrument is intended to be used for 
studies of the mechanical properties such as strength and stiffness of 
industrial metals--aluminum, various steels, ceramics and super alloys. 
In addition, the instrument will be used to illustrate state of the art 
testing procedures of advanced materials on the undergraduate and 
graduate levels in the course Mechanical Behavior of Materials. 
Application accepted by Commissioner of Customs: December 20, 2000.

    Docket Number: 00-042. Applicant: Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 
S. Cass Avenue, Argonne, IL 60439-4874. Instrument: Track Mounted Cone 
Penetrometer Vehicle and Associated Equipment, Model COSON 200. 
Manufacturer: A. P. Van Den Berg, Inc., The Netherlands. Intended Use: 
The instrument is intended to be used for research concentrated on the 
development of instrumentation to expand the knowledge and 
understanding of geotechnical properties of subsurface sediments and to 
better recover this data through improved electronic software and 
sampling systems. Experiments will involve the geotechnical properties 
of soils, metallurgy of the rods used to push the electronic cones, and 
the development of improved electronic and sampling equipment based 
upon experience gained and subsurface environmental conditions 
encountered during the normal course of site characterization studies. 
Application accepted by Commissioner of Customs: December 22, 2000.

    Docket Number: 00-043. Applicant: Harvard University, 16 Divinity 
Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138. Instrument: Picking and Gridding QBot with 
Accessories. Manufacturer: Genetix Ltd., United Kingdom. Intended Use: 
The instrument is intended to be used for studies of bacterial 
cultures, bacterial colonies and DNA fragments performing 
amplification, arraying and selection applications while optimizing the 
following characteristics: (1) Speed

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and throughput, (2) cost-effectiveness, (3) accuracy, (4) user safety, 
(5) robustness, (6) reduction error, (7) flexibility and (8) automation 
of otherwise tedious procedures. Application accepted by Commissioner 
of Customs: December 29, 2000.

Gerald A. Zerdy,
Program Manager, Statutory Import Programs Staff.
[FR Doc. 01-2058 Filed 1-23-01; 8:45 am]
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