[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 201 (Thursday, October 17, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Pages 64096-64097]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-26409]


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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: 02-041. Applicant: The Ohio State University, 
Materials Science and Engineering, 2041 College Road, Columbus, OH 
43210. Instrument: Electron Microscope, Model Tecnai F20 S-TWIN. 
Manufacturer: FEI Company, The Netherlands. Intended Use: The 
instrument is intended to be used for morphological and structural 
studies of ceramics and metals, including high temperature 
superconductors, high temperature metal alloys, evaporated metal thin 
films, silicon bicrystals, soils and geological minerals, polymers and 
possibly some biological samples. Also, the instrument will be used to 
measure the morphology and orientation of grains and particles, as well 
as the structure, long and short range ordering, number and type of 
defects and the elemental composition of various phases in the 
materials. Application accepted by Commissioner of Customs: September 
25, 2002.


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    Docket Number: 02-042. Applicant: The Pennsylvania State 
University, Microarray Facility, Wartik Laboratory, University Park, PA 
16802. Instrument: Plate Filler, Model QFill2. Manufacturer: Genetix 
Limited, United Kingdom. Intended Use: The instrument is intended to be 
used to rapidly dispense growth medium into 96 and 384-well microtitre 
plates to support bacterial growth for molecular biology experiments. 
The gene and genome sequences of an organism under study will be cloned 
into small circular DNA molecules (``plasmids'') that are grown inside 
standard E. coli bacteria in any molecular or genomics laboratory for 
use in performing the experiments. Objectives pursued in the course of 
the investigations are: (a) Gene discovery, (b) gene sequence 
characterization, (c) discovery of expressed gene sequences, and (d) 
genome-wide description of gene expression patterns in different 
tissues. Application accepted by Commissioner of Customs: September 26, 
2002.

    Docket Number: 02-043. Applicant: The Pennsylvania State 
University, Microarry Facility, Wartik Laboratory, University Park, PA 
16802. Instrument: Colony Picking/Arraying Robot, Model Q PixII. 
Manufacturer: Genetix Limited, United Kingdom. Intended Use: The 
instrument is intended to be used to manipulate (pick, transfer, sort 
or replicate) bacterial colonies that contain either circular plasmids 
or viral phage particles. The plasmids and phage in turn will contain 
fragments (clones) of DNA or expressed gene sequences (cDNAs) from an 
organism of interest. Libraries of DNA or cDNA are used to map and 
study the sequence of genes in the genome, and to obtain information 
about which genes are expressed in an organism at a given time. 
Objectives pursued in the course of the investigations are: (a) Gene 
discovery, (b) gene sequence characterization, (c) discovery of 
expressed gene sequences and (d) genome-wide description of gene 
expression patterns in different tissues. Application accepted by 
Commissioner of Customs: September 26, 2002.

    Docket Number: 02-045. Applicant: University of Vermont, College of 
Medicine, Molecular Physiology & Biophysics, HSRF, Room 120, 149 
Beaumont Avenue, Burlington, VT 05405. Instrument: Electron Microscope, 
Model Tecnai 12 TWIN. Manufacturer: FEI Company, The Netherlands. 
Intended Use: The instrument is intended to be used to carry out 
structural studies of biological samples for the purpose of biomedical 
research involving metabolic enzymes. The enzymes will be isolated from 
yeast and plunged into liquid ethane to preserve their structure and 
samples will be analyzed. An enzyme goes through different steps or 
stages as it performs its task in the cell. By analyzing all the 
different states of the enzyme, a better understanding of its function 
can be achieved. Application accepted by Commissioner of Customs: 
October 1, 2002.

Gerald A. Zerdy,
Program Manager, Statutory Import Programs Staff.
[FR Doc. 02-26409 Filed 10-16-02; 8:45 am]
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