[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 36 (Thursday, February 24, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Page 9046]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E5-759]


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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: 05-003. Applicant: Brigham Young University, 
Purchasing Department, C-144 ASB. Provo, UT 84602.
    Instrument: Electron microscope, Model Tecnai F-20 Twin.
    Manufacturer: FEI Company, The Netherlands. Intended Use: The 
instrument is intended to be used for high-resolution electron 
microscopy, electron crystallography, parallel and convergent beam 
electron diffraction and electron energy-loss spectroscopy. Phenomena 
at the nano-scale and properties of a variety of materials of 
scientific and technological significance will be studied. Application 
accepted by Commissioner of Customs: January 31, 2005.
    Docket Number: 05-004. Applicant: University of Delaware, 201 
duPont Hall, Dept. of Matls. and Eng., University of Delaware, Newark, 
DE 19716. Instrument: Electron Microscope, Model Tecnai G\2\ 12 Twin. 
Manufacturer: Fei Company, Czech Republic. Intended Use: The instrument 
is intended to be used to study the microstructure of polymers, 
colloids and biomaterials and other materials from room temperature 
down to that of liquid nitrogen. It will be used to investigate 
morphology of phases, crystal structure and defects including vesicles 
and micelles, colloids as well as polypeptide and polymer mesoscale and 
nanoscale structure and structure-property relationships. Application 
accepted by Commissioner of Customs: January 31, 2005.
    Docket Number: 04-005. Applicant: University of Vermont, Physics 
Dept., 82 University Place, (Cook Building), Bulington, VT. 05405. 
Instrument: Excimer Laser. Manufacturer: TUI Laser AG, Germany. 
Intended Use: The instrument is intended to be used to make thin film 
materials with scientifically interesting electrical and magnetic 
properties using a pulsed laser deposition process which will be 
subjected to a variety of measurements to determine their atomic and 
molecular structure as well as relevant electrical and magnetic 
properties in order to elucidate the fundamental properties of thin 
film materials.
    Application accepted by Commissioner of Customs: February 7, 2005.

Gerald A. Zerdy,
Program Manager, Statutory Import Programs Staff.
 [FR Doc. E5-759 Filed 2-23-05; 8:45 am]
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