[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 249 (Wednesday, December 29, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Page 77995]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 04-28522]


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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 am. and 5 p.m. in Suite 
4100W, U.S. Department of Commerce, Franklin Court Building, 1099 14th 
Street, NW, Washington, DC.
    Docket Number: 04-022.
    Applicant: Virginia Commonwealth University, Department of Anatomy 
and Neurobiology, 1101 E. Marshall Street, Room 12-050, Box 980709, 
Richmond, VA 23298.
    Instrument: Transmission Electron Microscope, Model JEM-1230.
    Manufacturer: JEOL, Ltd., Japan.
    Intended Use: The instrument will be used to examine, analyze and 
reconstruct images of brain tissue derived from experimental animals 
subject to traumatic brain injury, various forms of epileptic seizure 
and various neurodegenerative disorders. Experiments with various 
antibodies will be used to determine various forms of neuronal cell 
injury and repair with computer-assisted reconstruction used to analyze 
related organelle and cytoskeletal change within neuronal somata and 
their dendritic and axonal processes.
    Application accepted by Commissioner of Customs: November 18, 2004.

Gerald A. Zerdy,
Program Manager, Statutory Import Programs Staff.
[FR Doc. 04-28522 Filed 12-28-04; 8:45 am]
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