[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 18 (Wednesday, January 28, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Page 4114]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 04-1834]


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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: 03-055. Applicant: Stanford University, Department 
of Neurobiology, 299 Campus Drive West D243, Stanford, CA 94305. 
Instrument: Electron Microscope, Model Tecnai G2 Polara. 
Manufacturer: FEI Company, The Netherlands. Intended Use: The 
instrument is intended to be used for biomedical experiments including 
the following:
    (1) Research on the nervous system to expose the structure of the 
neuromuscular junction and other synapses at nanometer scale.
    (2) Applying current methodology to the structure determination of 
giant, multiprotein transcription complexes at nanometer resolution, 
and developing a new approach for extension of single particle analysis 
to near atomic resolution.
    (3) Cell biological and molecular bases of dendrite growth and 
synapse formation in the vertebrate central nervous system. Application 
accepted by Commissioner of Customs: December 17, 2003.

Gerald A. Zerdy,
Program Manager, Statutory Import Programs Staff.
[FR Doc. 04-1834 Filed 1-27-04; 8:45 am]
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