[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 119 (Wednesday, June 22, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Pages 36117-36118]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E5-3256]


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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, D.C. 20230. 
Applications may be examined between 8:30 A.M. and 5:00 P.M. in Suite 
4100W, U.S. Department of Commerce, Franklin Court Building, 1099 14th 
Street, NW, Washington, D.C.
    Docket Number: 05-018. Applicant: Oregon Health and Science 
University, Neurological Sciences Institute, 5050 N.W. 185th Avenue, 
Beaverton, OR 97006. Instrument: TriMScope Beam Multiplexor System. 
Manufacturer: La Vision BioTech GmbH, Germany. Intended Use: The 
instrument is intended to be used to study the anatomy and physiology 
of the animal brain at the subcellular level and the optical correlates 
of its electrical activity in order to resolve the fine structural 
alterations after global brain ischemia, prior to neuronal death, to 
identify early timepoints in which therapies can be delivered to 
prevent brain death. It will employ multiple infrared light beams prior 
to their passage through a microscope to illuminate the subsurface of 
the brain at a discrete focal plane. Application accepted by 
Commissioner of Customs: May 23, 2005.
    Docket Number: 05-020. Applicant: University of California, San 
Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093-0332. Instrument: Electron 
Microscope, Model Technai G[bds2] Sphera Manufacturer: FEI Company, The 
Netherlands. Intended Use: The instrument is intended to be used to 
image and study, among other things:
1. The structure and the mechanisms of action of various viruses.
2. Cell motility and adhesion of ventral membrane preparations of 
fibroblast cells.
3. The function of MsbA in membrane transport with drug-resistant 
bacteria.
4. Intercellular communication involving connexin protein and its 
function in x-linked diseases.
5. Trans-membrane signaling within human platelet protein integrin.
These studies will use low-dose cryoelectron microscopy techniques. 
Application accepted by Commissioner of Customs: June 8, 2005.
    Docket Number: 05-021. Applicant: University of California, San 
Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093-0332. Instrument: Electron 
Microscope, Model Technai G[bds2] Polara. Manufacturer: FEI Company, 
The Netherlands. Intended Use: The instrument is intended to be used to 
image and study, among other things:
1. The structure and the mechanisms of action of various viruses.
2. Cell motility and adhesion of ventral membrane preparations of 
fibroblast cells.
3. The function of MsbA in membrane transport with drug-resistant 
bacteria.
4. Intercellular communication involving connexin protein and its 
function in x-linked diseases.
5. Trans-membrane signaling within human platelet protein integrin.
    These studies will use low-dose cryoelectron microscopy techniques.

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Application accepted by Commissioner of Customs: June 8, 2005.

Gerald A. Zerdy,
Program Manager, Statutory Import Programs Staff.
[FR Doc. E5-3256 Filed 6-21-05; 8:45 am]
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