[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 125 (Monday, June 30, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Pages 38675-38676]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-16489]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration


Application for Duty-Free Entry of Scientific Instrument

    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 an 
instrument of equivalent scientific value, for the purposes for which 
the instrument shown below is intended to be used, is 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: 03-028. Applicant: North Carolina State University, 
Campus Box 7212, Raleigh, NC 27695-7212. Instrument: Microarray System, 
Model QArray \mini\ X2700. Manufacturer: Genetix Ltd, United Kingdom. 
Intended Use: The instrument is intended to be used to study 
hyperthermophilic (organisms that have an optimum temperature of growth 
about 80 degrees Celsius) bacteria, microorganisms and proteins. The 
hyperthermophilic organisms will be grown with various growth 
substrates and growth conditions and the microarrays will be used to 
study gene expression under such conditions. Antibodies specific to the 
hyperthermophilic proteins of interest

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will be printed onto arrays to aid in the broad investigation of their 
enzymatic activities and to further characterize the proteins. 
Application accepted by Commissioner of Customs: June 10, 2003.

Gerald A. Zerdy,
Program Manager, Statutory Import Programs Staff.
[FR Doc. 03-16489 Filed 6-27-03; 8:45 am]
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