[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 207 (Monday, October 27, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Page 61189]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-27040]


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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: 03-048. Applicant: Whitehead Institute for 
Biomedical Research, 9 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA 02142.
    Instrument: Electron Microscope, Model JEM-2200FS.
    Manufacturer: JEOL Ltd., Japan. Intended Use: The instrument is 
intended to be used to study supramolecular protein structures such as 
the assembly and structure of prions, a causative agent in brain 
disease, and the acrosomal process, a protein machine that powers 
movements. Acrosome reaction will be studied to learn how the initial 
state stores energy and the conformation changes that release energy. 
Application accepted by Commissioner of Customs: September 26, 2003.
    Docket Number: 03-049. Applicant: National Institutes of Health, 
National Cancer Institute, 50 South Drive, Building 50, Room 4306, 
Bethesda, MD 20892-8008. Instrument: Electron Microscope, Model Tecni 
G2 Polara. Manufacturer: FEI Company, The Netherlands. Intended Use: 
The instrument is intended to be used to study the following: (1) 
Structural determination of membrane proteins and membrane protein 
complexes at atomic resolution, (2) structural determination of 
macromolecular assemblies from single particle imaging studies, and (3) 
electron tomographic studies to visualize the 3-dimensional 
architecture of cells at molecular resolution. Application accepted by 
Commissioner of Customs: September 30, 2003.

Gerald A. Zerdy,
Program Manager, Statutory Import Programs Staff.
[FR Doc. 03-27040 Filed 10-24-03; 8:45 am]
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