[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 142 (Tuesday, July 26, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Pages 43125-43126]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 05-14731]


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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: 05-024. Applicant: Massachusetts Institute of 
Technology, Plasma Science and Fusion Center, 190 Albany Street, 
Cambridge, MA 02139. Instrument: Diagnostic Neutral Beam Injector 
(Hydrogen). Manufacturer: Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics, Russia. 
Intended Use: The instrument is intended to be used to inject a multi-
ampere collimated beam of high-velocity ( near 1%) neutral hydrogen 
atoms (or deuterium or helium) into a tokomak plasma. Interactions 
between the beam atoms and the plasma will generate characteristic 
spectral emission lines from which crucial information about the hot 
plasma core can be extracted and studied including motional Stark 
effect, plasma ion temperature and flow velocity, beam emission 
spectroscopy and confinement and transport of fast particles in the 
tokamak plasma. It will also be used for education and research of 
graduate students and guest scientists from other plasma research 
facilities. Application accepted by Commissioner of Customs: June 23, 
2005.
    Docket Number: 05-025. Applicant: The Massachusetts Institute of 
Technology, 150 Albany Street, Cambridge, MA 02139. Instrument: Nuclear 
Magnetic Resonance Magnet, Model JMTC-600/140. Manufacturer: Jastec, 
Japan. Intended Use: The instrument is intended to be used to construct 
a persistent mode 600MHz, 125 mm room temperature bore LTS high-
resolution NMR spectrometer by combining the foreign NMR magnet with a 
1.76 T HTS insert built by the applicant. The resulting high 
homogeneity NMR spectrometer will be used to study a number of 
materials, such as nucleic acid molecules, helical peptides, 
bacteriorhodopsin and phenomena, such as frequency-selective 
heteronuclear dephasing and polarization and determination of structure 
and dynamics under physiological conditions. It will also be used for 
undergraduate, graduate and postdoctoraleducation and research. 
Application accepted by Commissioner of Customs: June 23, 2005.
    Docket Number: 05-026. Applicant: Cornell University, Baker Lab, 
Ithaca, NY 14853-1301. Instrument: Horizontal Bounce Monochromater. 
Manufacturer: Oxford-Danfysik, England. Intended Use: The instrument is 
intended to be used to determine the molecular structures of macro-
molecules of importance in the life sciences, particularly in the 
composition of the human genome and metabolic processes. Materials will 
include proteins, viruses, enzymes, and other related entities. X-ray 
crystallographic techniques will be used through studies of the 
scattering of monoenergetic x-rays from single crystals of these 
materials utilizing the intense beams of x-rays provided by the 
Advanced Photon Source located at the Department of Energy's Argonne 
National Laboratory. The objective is to understand more fully how 
various metabolic and physiological systems function. Application 
accepted by Commissioner of Customs: July 28, 2005.
    Docket Number: 05-029. Applicant: University of Illinois at 
Chicago, Department of Physics (m/c 273), 845 West Taylor Street (Room 
2236), Chicago, Il 60607-7059. Instrument: Excimer Laser and 
Preamplifier. Manufacturer: Laser-Laboratorium, Gottingen, Germany. 
Intended Use: The instrument is intended to be used to study nonlinear 
optical phenomena and x-ray amplification in gases, solids, atomic 
clusters and plasmas. Measured quantities of x-rays and their spectral 
properties will be examined for an understanding of new physics 
associated with coherent x-ray production which will serve as a 
preamplifier in an ultraviolet laser system. Application accepted by 
Commissioner of Customs: July 7, 2005.
    Docket Number: 05-030. Applicant: National Animal Disease Center, 
U.S. Department of Agriculture, 2300 Dayton Avenue, Ames, IA, 50010. 
Instrument: Electron Microscope, Model Technai G[bds2] 12 TWIN/BioTWIN. 
Manufacturer: FEI Company, Czech Republic. Intended Use: The instrument 
is intended to be

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used for high resolution and high contrast imaging of thin-sectioned 
tissues of animals of major economic importance to U.S. agriculture. 
Basic and applied research on selected diseases of importance to the 
U.S. livestock and poultry industries will be conducted to:
    1. Reduce economic losses from animal disease for the livestock and 
poultry industries and the associated rural agricultural communities.
    2. Reduce or eliminate pre-harvest contamination/infection of 
animals with food-borne human pathogens.
    3. Prevent suffering and death caused by diseases. Application 
accepted by Commissioner of Customs: July 6, 2005.
    Docket Number: 05-031. Applicant: University of Illinois, 
Department of Crop Sciences, 384A Edward R. Madigan Lab, 1201 West 
Gregory Drive, Urbana, IL . Instrument: Qarray2 Microarraying System. 
Manufacturer: Genetix, Ltd., United Kingdom. Intended Use: The 
instrument is intended to be used in genomics research to ``print'' 
thousands of DNA specimens representing laboratory-produced soybean 
genes onto glass slides in a process known as microarray. The glass 
slide microarrays produced with the Qarray2 instrument will then be 
exposed to tissue extracts and used to determine how and when the genes 
are active or ``expressed'' in the plant, providing information on 
plant growth, disease resistance and production of nutritionally 
significant compounds. The instrument will also be used for instruction 
in several lab courses. Application accepted by Commissioner of 
Customs: July 8, 2005.

Gerald A. Zerdy,
Program Manager Statutory Import Programs Staff.
[FR Doc. 05-14731 Filed 7-25-05; 8:45 am]
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