[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 162 (Monday, August 23, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Page 51812]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 04-19271]


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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: 04-015. Applicant: North Carolina State University, 
Campus Box 7212, Raleigh, NC 27695-7212. Instrument: Cryogen-Free 
Superconductive Magnet System. Manufacturer: Cryogenic Limited, United 
Kingdom. Intended Use: The instrument is intended to be used to study 
properties of newly synthesized magnetic materials, phase separation 
phenomena and cluster nanostructure in lanthanide-doped optically-
active glasses, and structural arrangements of membrane proteins and 
phospholipid nanoassemblies including:
    1. Zero-field splitting energy for effective integer spin-systems 
of coupled spins that are spectroscopically silent at lower magnetic 
fields.
    2. Spin-polarization phenomena in novel magnetic materials 
synthesized at the University.
    3. Transmembrane location of membrane proteins.
    Additionally, the instrument will be used for quantum computing 
experiments with essentially pure quantum state attained at magnetic 
fields above 11 Tesla for an ensemble of quantum dots and for 
experiments to lift degeneracy of quantum states of electronic spins by 
applying magnetic field.
    Application accepted by Commissioner of Customs: August 4, 2004.

Gerald A. Zerdy,
Program Manager, Statutory Import Programs Staff.
[FR Doc. 04-19271 Filed 8-20-04; 8:45 am]
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