[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 179 (Monday, September 16, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Pages 58354-58355]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-23496]


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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: 02-030. Applicant: Faulkes Telescope Corporation, 
Pacific Guardian Center, 737 Bishop Street, Suite 2600, Honolulu, HI 
96813. Instrument: Robotically Controlled 2 meter Astronomical 
Telescope. Manufacturer: Telescope Technologies Limited, United 
Kingdom. Intended Use: The instrument is intended to be used for 
studying astronomical objects. The telescope and its charge coupled 
device instrument (which includes a wheel of colored filters) (CCD 
camera) will be used for taking images of astronomical objects that 
will allow the identity brightness, color, composition, and distance of 
astronomical objects to

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be determined. Observations of celestial objects will be selected by 
students in Hawaiian and United Kingdom schools as part of educational 
research programs being run to support the teaching of science in 
schools. Research programs will include:
1. Galaxy morphology (shape of galaxies)
2. Asteroid and comet searches
3. Gamma-ray bursts
4. Variable stars
5. Extra-solar planets (planets outside our own Solar System) These 
programs are intended to result in findings that can be published in 
refereed journals by the professional astronomers that will be 
mentoring the research. Therefore, the observations will need to be of 
research quality. Application accepted by Commissioner of Customs: July 
11, 2002.

    Docket Number: 02-037. Applicant: The University of Texas Health 
Center at Tyler, 11937 U.S. Hwy 271, Tyler, TX 75708-3154. Instrument: 
Electron Microscope, Model JEM-1230. Manufacturer: JEOL Ltd., Japan. 
Intended Use: The instrument is intended to be used to study 
ultrastructural cells--normal and pathological, dusts--inhaled and 
environmental, isolated proteins, bacteria, viruses, isolated RNA and 
DNA and other bio compounds to understand mechanisms in biosystems 
which have applicability to be used in intervening in human disease. 
Application accepted by Commissioner of Customs: August 15, 2002.

    Docket Number: 02-039. Applicant: U.S. Department of Agriculture, 
ARS, PWA Office, 800 Buchanan Street, Albany, CA 94710. Instrument: 
Automated Robotic Colony Picking and Replicating System, Model QPixII. 
Manufacturer: Genetix Limited, United Kingdom. Intended Use: The 
instrument is intended to be used in research for a high-throughput 
screening strategy to identify E. coli. and yeast colonies with high 
recombinant enzyme activities and to quickly screen hundreds of 
thousands of colonies for clones that produce highly active starch-
degrading enzymes, and to implement an automated process for that 
purpose. Application accepted by Commissioner of Customs: August 28, 
2002.

    Docket Number: 02-040. Applicant: Pennsylvania State University, 
187 Materials Research Lab Building, University Park, PA 16802. 
Instrument: Optical Image Furnace and Accessories, Model SC1-MDH-20020. 
Manufacturer: NEC Machinery Corporation, Japan. Intended Use: The 
instrument is intended to be used for the growth of up to 10 mm 
diameter single crystals for the study of oxide ferroic and dielectric 
materials. The need for the capability to grow highly uniform and 
sufficient in size single crystals is stemmed from the necessity to 
separate and understand the mechanisms in the mixed valence solid 
solution and often refractory ferroic crystal systems. Application 
accepted by Commissioner of Customs: August 29, 2002.

Gerald A. Zerdy,
Program Manager, Statutory Import Programs Staff.
[FR Doc. 02-23496 Filed 9-13-02; 8:45 am]
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