[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 41 (Monday, March 3, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Page 9984]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-4931]


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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: 03-007.
    Applicant: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research 
Service, Pacific West Area, 800 Buchanan Street, Albany, CA 94710.
    Instrument: Electron Microscope, Model Tecnai G \2\ 12 TWIN, G \2\ 
Upgrade, and Accessories.
    Manufacturer: FEI Company, The Netherlands.
    Intended Use: The instrument is intended to be used to study plant, 
insect and microbial viruses, and bacterial cells. Objectives to be 
pursued include:
    (1) Verification or validation of the structural integrity of 
purified plant, insect and microbial viruses;
    (2) Characterization of the structural properties of viruses in 
situ and in vitro and bacterial cells; and
    (3) Characterization of the interaction(s) between bacterial cells 
and insect vector host tissues in insecta, and bacterial cells and 
plant host tissues in planta.
    Application accepted by Commissioner of Customs: February 7, 2003.
    Docket Number: 03-008.
    Applicant: The Rockefeller University, 12230 York Avenue, New York, 
NY 10021.
    Instrument: Electron Microscope, Model Tecnai G \2\ 12 BioTWIN.
    Manufacturer: FEI Company, The Netherlands.
    Intended Use: The instrument is intended to be used to explore the 
mechanisms governing development and differentiation in epidermis and 
hair of mammalian skin and to understand how these processes go awry in 
human genetic skin diseases.
    Application accepted by Commissioner of Customs: February 12, 2003.

Gerald A. Zerdy,
Program Manager, Statutory Import Programs Staff.
[FR Doc. 03-4931 Filed 2-28-03; 8:45 am]
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