[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 206 (Tuesday, October 26, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Page 62435]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 04-23955]


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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: 04-019. Applicant: Texas A & M Research Foundation, 
3578 TAMU--Dulie Bell Bldg., College Station, TX 77843-3578. 
Instrument: Scanning Hall Probe Microscope. Manufacturer: NanoMagnetics 
Instruments Ltd., United Kingdom.
    Intended Use: The instrument is intended to be used to investigate:
    1. The magnetic field properties of mesoscopically patterned thin 
films and nanostructured clusters of single magnet molecules for use as 
dense magnetic memories and in quantum computing.
    2. The influence of periodic or randomly varying magnetic fields on 
the properties of thin films of superconductors, ordinary conductors, 
semiconductors and other magnetic materials at temperatures as low as 2 
K.
    3. The development of magnetic microstructures for diamagnetic 
levitation and manipulation of small particles and droplets.
    The Instrument will also be used in courses on microscale magnetic 
field properties. Application accepted by Commissioner of Customs: 
October 7, 2004.

Gerald A. Zerdy,
Program Manager, Statutory Import Programs Staff.
[FR Doc. 04-23955 Filed 10-25-04; 8:45 am]
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