[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 118 (Thursday, June 19, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Pages 36769-36770]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-15525]


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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: 03-024. Applicant: The University of Michigan, 
Materials Science & Engineering Department, 3062 HH Dow Building, 2300 
Hayward Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2136. Instrument: Materials 
Preparation and Crystal Growth System, Model MCGS5. Manufacturer: 
Crystalox Limited, United Kingdom. Intended Use: The instrument is 
intended to be used to melt alloys of precious metals, including 
ruthenium and platinum, to study their tensile properties, creep 
properties, diffusion behavior and

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oxidation characteristics. The objective is to identify new materials 
that can increase the efficiency of high temperature systems such as 
aircraft engines and electric utility power generation turbines. 
Improved efficiency requires that these systems operate in increasingly 
higher temperatures. Application accepted by Commissioner of Customs: 
May 28, 2003.

    Docket Number: 03-025. Applicant: The University of Texas Health 
Science Center at San Antonio, 7703 Floyd Curl Drive, San Antonio, TX 
78229-7750. Instrument: Electron Microscope, Model JEM-1230. 
Manufacturer: JEOL Ltd., Japan. Intended Use: The instrument is 
intended to be used in the applicant's Department of Pathology for the 
following research projects:

    1. Genetic Synthesis of Atherosclerosis
    2. Mycoplasma pneumoniae-Airway interplay
    3. Collaborative Program in BPD (bronchopulmonary dysplasia)
    4. Molecular Biology of the Synapse
    5. Single Molecular Analysis of Complex DNA Metabolism
    6. Membrane Pathology in Renal Cell Injury

    Application accepted by Commissioner of Customs: May 28, 2003.

    Docket Number: 03-026. Applicant: University of Vermont, College of 
Medicine, Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, HSRF--
RM127, 149 Beaumont Avenue, Burlington, VT 05405. Instrument: Cuvette 
System for muscle fiber investigation. Manufacturer: Scientific 
Instruments, GmbH, Germany. Intended Use: The instrument is intended to 
be used to bathe a strip of dissected muscle. Muscle strips will be 
prepared from heart biopsies and measurements of force production used 
to characterize heart muscle performance in various heart diseases. 
Application accepted by Commissioner of Customs: May 29, 2003.

    Docket Number: 03-027. Applicant: Oregon Health & Science 
University, Neurological Sciences Institute, 505 NW 185th Avenue, 
Beaverton, OR 97006. Instrument: Electron Microscope, Model Tecnai G\2\ 
12 BioTWIN. Manufacturer: FEI Company, The Netherlands. Intended Use: 
The instrument is intended to be used to examine the following:
    1. The ultrastructural localization of several types of glutamate 
receptors relative to specific populations of primary afferents in the 
rat trigeminal dorsal horn, using antipeptide antisera that selectively 
recognize each receptor.
    2. The localization of the MOR1 relative to other populations of 
afferents.
    Application accepted by Commissioner of Customs: June 3, 2003.

Gerald A. Zerdy,
Program Manager, Statutory Import Programs Staff.
[FR Doc. 03-15525 Filed 6-18-03; 8:45 am]
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