[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 39 (Wednesday, February 27, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Pages 8938-8939]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-4669]


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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 Suite 
4100W, U.S. Department of Commerce, Franklin Court Building, 1099 14th 
Street, NW., Washington, DC.
    Docket Number: 01-024. Applicant: Howard Hughes Medical Institute, 
4000 Jones Bridge Road, Chevy Chase, MD 20815-6789.
    Instrument: Electron Microscope, Model JEM-1010. Manufacturer: JEOL 
Ltd., Japan. Intended Use: The instrument is intended to be used for 
the study of the Drosophilia neuromuscular junction and optic lobe, and 
rodent and human tissues. Of interest is the process by which snyaptic 
vesicles are synthesized, fuse with the plasma membrane, release their 
contents and are recycled within the nerve cell. Several 
neurodegenerative diseases using mouse models of specific human 
diseases including Spinocerebral ataxia and Rett Syndrome will also be 
studied. Application accepted by Commissioner of Customs: November 16, 
2001.
    Docket Number: 01-026. Applicant: Emory University, Department of 
Pharmacology, Room 5160, W Rollins Center, 1510 Clifton Road, Atlanta, 
GA 30322. Instrument: High Speed CCD Camera System Set, Model MiCAM 01. 
Manufacturer: SciMedia Ltd., Japan.
    Intended Use: The instrument is intended to be used in experiments 
to study stroke and ischemia involving protease-activated-receptors 
(PAR). The instrument will allow direct testing where the PARs are 
located in the brain and the effect of activation. Application accepted 
by Commissioner of Customs: December 10, 2001.
    Docket Number: 00-027. Applicant: University of Cincinnati, 3125 
Eden Avenue, PO Box 670521, Cincinnati, OH 45267-0521.
    Instrument: Electron Microscope, Model JEM-1230. Manufacturer: 
JEOL, Ltd, Japan.

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    Intended Use: The instrument is intended to be used in the 
following experiments:
    (1) Using immunocytochemical methods at the ultrastructural level, 
the normal cellular distribution of known trafficking molecules, and 
their altered localization in Hermansky-Pudlak Syndrome cell lines will 
be assessed.
    (2) To determine whether transgenic techniques designed to 
interrupt the cytoskeleton were successful in disrupting the structure 
of the intermediate filament component of the cytoskeleton.
    (3) Circadian transplant studies to confirm that graft efferents 
actually establish synaptic contacts with host brain regions among 
animals exhibiting different patterns of behavioral recovery.
    (4) Studies on transgenic mouse lines in which the endogenous 
surfactant protein B (SP-B) gene has been inactivated and replaced with 
a human transgene encoding a deleted/mutated SP-B proprotein.
    Application accepted by Commissioner of Customs: December 28, 2001.
    Docket Number: 02-001. Applicant: University of Vermont, Department 
of Orthopaedics, Burlington, VT 05405. Instrument: Upgrade for X-ray 
based Motion Analysis System. Manufacturer: RSA BioMedical Innovations 
AB, Sweden. Intended Use: The instrument is intended to be used to make 
measurements of the biomechanical behavior of different joints of the 
body and to study different types of joint trauma, surgical repair, and 
healing responses. Application accepted by Commissioner of Customs: 
January 22, 2002.
    Docket Number: 02-002. Applicant: Fox Chase Cancer Center, 7701 
Burholme Avenue, Philadelphia, PA 19111. Instrument: Electron 
Microscope, Model Tecnai 12 BioTWIN. Manufacturer: FEI Company, The 
Netherlands. Intended Use: The instrument is intended to be used to 
study biological materials including nucleic acids, proteins, 
organelles, cultured cells, and tissues prepared for electron 
microscopy. Specifically, studies of ultrastructure and the 
intracellular localization and trafficking of biologically important 
molecules including chromatin, structures critical to the regulation of 
DNA replication, cytokinesis, and meiosis, products of oncogene and 
tumor suppressor genes, and viral components. Application accepted by 
Commissioner of Customs: January 22, 2002.
    Docket Number: 02-003. Applicant: Albert Einstein College of 
Medicine of Yeshiva University, 1300 Morris Park Avenue, Bronx, NY 
10461. Instrument: Electron Microscope, Model Tecnai 20. Manufacturer: 
FEI Company, The Netherlands. Intended Use: The instrument is intended 
to be used to study the structure of biological macromolecular 
complexes and to determine the 3-dimensional structure of the 
cytoskeleton of normal metastatic mammalian cells and the mechanism of 
intracellular transport and cell movement. Application accepted by 
Commissioner of Customs: January 22, 2002.

Gerald A. Zerdy,
Program Manager, Statutory Import Programs Staff.
[FR Doc. 02-4669 Filed 2-26-02; 8:45 am]
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