[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 91 (Tuesday, May 11, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Page 26074]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 04-10664]


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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: 03-053. Applicant: Case Western Reserve University, 
10900 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44106. Instrument: Scanning Near-
Field Optical Microscope, Model ALPHASNOM. Manufacturer: WITEC, 
Germany. Intended Use: The instrument is intended to be used to examine 
and investigate:
    1. The location of nanometer sized minerals within collagen fibril 
templates and the alignment of collagen fibrils with respect to each 
other.
    2. The rate of diffusion of Ca ions normal to the neuron membrane 
surface after stimulating Ca ion channels to conduct.
    3. Relative placement of fluorescently labeled proteins residing on 
sphingolipid rafts on T cell membranes.
    4. Alignment of liquid crystal molecules at a glass surface.
    5. Surface diffusion of fluorescently labeled antibodies conjugated 
to proteins inserted in fluorosomes.
    Application accepted by Commissioner of Customs: April 7, 2004.

    Docket Number: 04-006. Applicant: The Jackson Laboratory, 600 Main 
Street, Bar Harbor, ME 04609. Instrument: Electron Microscope, Model 
JEM-1230 (HC). Manufacturer: Jeol Ltd., Japan. Intended Use: The 
instrument is intended to be used to investigate:
    1. Morphological studies in the area of eye research including 
corneal disease, glaucoma, and retinal degenerations.
    2. Development of progressive ataxia correlated with progressive 
neuronal loss in the cerebellum of a novel mutant mouse strain.
    3. Characterizing trophoblast stem (TS) cell differentiation in 
vitro.
    4. Severe hemolytic anemia in mice (hereditary spherocytosis) with 
deficiencies of the red cell cytoskeletal proteins alpha spectrin, beta 
spectrin or ankyrin.
    Application accepted by Commissioner of Customs: April 6, 2004.

    Docket Number: 04-007. Applicant: Argonne National laboratory. 
Instrument: UHV STM Microscope with Cryostat. Manufacturer: Unisoku 
Scientific Instruments, Japan. Intended Use: The instrument is intended 
to be used for low temperature microscopy and spectroscopy of 
superconductors and semiconductors and to study surface reconstruction 
and conditioning, vortex imaging and measurement of phonon spectra in 
materials to obtain a better understanding of the mechanisms of 
superconductivity and other electronic phenomena.
    Application accepted by Commissioner of Customs: April 10, 2004.

    Docket Number: 04-008. Applicant: California Institute of 
Technology. Instrument: Dual Beam SEM/FIB System, Model Nova 600 
NanoLab. Manufacturer: FEI Company, Japan. Intended Use: The instrument 
is intended to be used to investigate:
    1. Deposition of contacts and local metallization for connecting 
nano-devices.
    2. Definition of gratings and lenses on optical fibers as well as 
ring and sphere resonators.
    3. Ion-beam assisted intermixing of semiconductors for low-loss 
optical devices.
    4. Rapid prototyping of nano-electric and nano-photonic devices.
    5. Identification of corrosion products for surface analysis and 
mineral analysis.
    Application accepted by Commissioner of Customs: April 19, 2004.

Gerald A. Zerdy,
Program Manager, Statutory Import Programs Staff.
[FR Doc. 04-10664 Filed 5-10-04; 8:45 am]
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