[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 226 (Monday, November 24, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Page 65879]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-29307]


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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: 03-050.
    Applicant: San Diego State University, 5500 Campanile Drive, San 
Diego, CA 92182-4614.
    Instrument: Electron Microscope, Model Tecnai G2 12 
TWIN.
    Manufacturer: FEI Company, The Netherlands.
    Intended Use: The instrument is intended to be used for research 
purposes in the following areas:
    (1) Phytoflagellates of the Salton Sea.
    (2) Structure and function of mitochondria.
    (3) Analysis of contractile protein function through 
ultrastructural analysis.
    (4) Environmental adaptions in fish.
    (5) Stress-induced coral mortality.
    (6) Visualization of recombinant intermediates by Cryo-TEM.
    Minor research uses by students include:
    (1) New thermoacidophilic organisms from hot springs.
    (2) Signal transduction of the stress response in the heart.
    (3) Molecular genetic analysis of neuromuscular system function in 
Drosophila melangoaste.
    (4) Physiology of fish gill and their response to parasatism;
    (5) Analysis and subcellular localization of putative sphingolipid 
signaling molecules in skeletal and cardiac muscle.
    Application accepted by Commissioner of Customs: October 20, 2003.

Gerald A. Zerdy,
Program Manager, Statutory Import Programs Staff.
[FR Doc. 03-29307 Filed 11-21-03; 8:45 am]
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