[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 39 (Friday, February 27, 2004)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Page 9301]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 04-4393]


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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: 04-001. Applicant: The New York Structural Biology 
Center, Inc., 89 Convent Avenue at 133rd Street, New York, NY 10027. 
Instrument: Electron Microscope, Model Tecnai G2 F20 Twin 
Cryo. Manufacturer: FEI Company, the Netherlands.
    Intended Use: The instrument is intended to be used in the 
following investigations:
    1. Frozen-hydrated specimens and methods of cryotomography will be 
used to eliminate specimen preparation artifacts as a potential factor 
and to establish this methodology as an alternative to plastic 
sections.
    2. The architecture of adherens junctions will be studied either in 
epidermis, in cultured keratinocytes, or in lens tissue.
    3. Study the structure and function of the dense cytoplasmic plaque 
by isolating epidermis from transgenic mice with knockout of several 
key desmosomal components: plakoglobin, desmoplakin, desmocollin, and 
keratin 5.
    4. Study the assembly of both adherens junctions and desmosomes in 
cultured keratinocytes using calcium to initiate junction assembly 
between confluent cell cultures.
    Application accepted by Commissioner of Customs: January 16, 2004.
    Docket Number: 04-002. Applicant: University of Colorado, Bolder, 
Department ECE, UCB 425, Colorado & Folsom, Boulder, CO 80309-0425. 
Instrument: Fiber Laser System, Model E15. Manufacturer: Koheras A/S, 
Denmark. Intended Use: The instrument is intended to be used to perform 
spatial-spectral holography experiments on inhomogeneously broadened 
Er3+:YSO crystals for use in signal processing schemes. 
Application accepted by Commissioner of Customs: January 16, 2004.
    Docket Number: 04-003. Applicant: Research Foundation of the City 
University of New York, 555 West 57th Street, New York, NY 10019. 
Instrument: Femtosecond Fiber Laser, Model Femtolite C-20-SP. 
Manufacturer: IMRA America, Inc., Japan. Intended Use: The instrument 
is intended to be used as a source to generate THz radiation on 100 fs 
scale to study biological materials, liquids, and gases. Torsional 
vibrational motions and relaxation times for biological materials, 
dielectric relaxation properties for liquid samples and coherent 
transients (photon echoes) properties attributed to simultaneous 
excitations for a manifold of rotational transitions of gas molecules 
will be investigated. THz time-domain spectroscopy and Thz time-
resolved spectroscopy experiments will be conducted. Application 
accepted by Commissioner of Customs: January 20, 2004.
    Docket Number: 04-004. Applicant: University of California, Santa 
Barbara, Engineering Materials Department, Engineering II, Room 1355, 
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-5050. Instrument: Electron Microscope, Model 
Tecnai G2 F30 U-TWIN. Manufacturer: FEI Company, the 
Netherlands. Intended Use: The instrument is intended to be used for 
observations in engineering materials including:

1. Electronic Materials
    a. nitride semiconductors
    b. strain relaxation in misfitting semiconductor layers
2. Structural Materials
    a. thermal barrier coatings
    b. materials performance and reliability
    c. ceramic matrix composites
    d. functional thin films
3. Inorganic Materials
    a. nanoporous materials
    b. mixed metal oxides
    c. electronic inorganic and structural materials

    Application accepted by Commissioner of Customs: February 4, 2004.
    Docket Number: 04-005. Applicant: University of California, Santa 
Barbara, Engineering Materials Department, Engineering II, Room 1355, 
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-5050. Instrument: Electron Microscope, Model 
Tecnai G2 Sphera. Manufacturer: FEI Company, the 
Netherlands. Intended Use: The instrument is intended to be used in 
observations of macromolecular and biomaterials including:

1. Block copolymers, blends and interfaces
2. Block copolypeptides
3. Bio-macromolecular complexes

    Application accepted by Commissioner of Customs: February 4, 2004.

Gerald A. Zerdy,
Program Manager, Statutory Import Programs Staff.
[FR Doc. 04-4393 Filed 2-26-04; 8:45 am]
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