[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 221 (Wednesday, November 17, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Page 67320]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E4-3201]


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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: 04-018.
    Applicant: University of California, Los Alamos National 
Laboratory, PO Box 1663, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545.
    Instrument: Hydraulic Press.
    Manufacturer: Osterwalder AG, Switzerland.
    Intended Use: The instrument is intended to be used to compress 
ceramic and metallic powders of actinide elements into fissile 
cylindrical pellets which are irradiated and then evaluated for linear 
heat generation, thermal conductivity, mechanical integrity and 
radiation tolerance in conjunction with research on suitability as 
nuclear fuels.
    Application accepted by Commissioner of Customs: October 12, 2004.
    Docket Number: 04-020.
    Applicant: Johns Hopkins University, 3400 N. Charles Street, 
Baltimore, MD 21218.
    Instrument: Dual-beam Focused Ion Beam System, Model Number Nova 
600 NanoLab (FP 22067/31).
    Manufacturer: FEI Company, The Netherlands.
    Intended Use: The instrument is intended to be used to study:
    1. New microcircuitry that employs spin currents and conventional 
electrical currents to carry and store information,
    2. Development of new stencil mask methods of lateral nanostructure 
fabrication,
    3. Fabrication of high performance cantilevers for atomic force and 
magnetic force microscopy,
    4. The mechanisms of cell adhesion and growth on nonoengineered 
surfaces,
    5. The dynamics of materials' surfaces.
    Application accepted by Commissioner of Customs: October 20, 2004.
    Docket Number: 04-021.
    Applicant: The J. David Gladstone Institutes, 365 Vermont Street, 
San Francisco, CA 94103.
    Instrument: Electron Microscope, Model JEM-1230.
    Manufacturer: JEOL Ltd., Japan.
    Intended Use: The instrument is intended to be used to examine 
biological samples from mice and tissue culture to study the effects of 
manipulating specific genes in genetically altered mice to determine 
specific cellular pathways and their relevance to human disease and the 
consequence of altering these pathways. It will also be used as a 
quality control check for the homogeneity of generated protein-lipid 
complexes.
    Application accepted by Commissioner of Customs: October 29, 2004.

Gerald A. Zerdy,
Program Manager, Statutory Import Programs Staff.
[FR Doc. E4-3201 Filed 11-16-04; 8:45 am]
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