[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 68 (Monday, April 10, 2006)]
[Notices]
[Pages 18081-18082]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E6-5195]


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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

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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 p.m. in Suite 4100W, U.S. 
Department of Commerce, Franklin Court Building, 1099 14th Street, NW, 
Washington, DC.
Docket Number: 06-007. Applicant: University of Connecticut, 91 N. 
Eagleville Road, BSP Bldg., Unit 3242, Storrs, CT 06269. Instrument: 
Electron Microscope, Model Technai G[bds2] Spirit BioTWIN. 
Manufacturer: FEI Company, The Netherlands. Intended Use: The 
instrument is intended to be used in a multi-user facility providing 
training and service to faculty, staff and students. A wide variety of 
cells and tissues will be examined. The ultrastructural arrangement of 
cells, organelles and macromolecular assemblies and the fine structure 
of domains within polymers will be investigated. Research projects 
ranging from evolutionary biology to materials science will use the 
instrument. Application accepted by Commissioner of Customs: March 20, 
2006.
Docket Number: 06-008. Applicant: California Institute of Technology, 
1200 E. California Boulevard, Mail Code 103-6, Pasadena, CA 91125. 
Instrument: Neutron Guide. Manufacturer: SwissNeutronics, Switzerland. 
Intended Use: The instrument is a compatible key accessory for the 
high-resolution, direct-geometry, time-of-flight chopper spectrometer 
(ARCS) at the Spallation Neutron Source at Oak Ridge N.L. It will be 
used to investigate the energy spectra obtained when neutrons incident 
on a sample are scattered by the motions of atoms or of electron spins 
in the sample. Studies will include the thermodynamics of atom 
vibrations or spin motions, or of their characteristic energies and 
momenta, cooperative motions of electrons in solids relevant to 
electrical transport, magnetic properties and superconductivity. The 
neutron guide is especially useful for studies that require low or 
medium-energy neutron beams that are incident on the sample. 
Application accepted by the Commissioner of Customs: February 27, 2006.
Docket Number: 06-009. Applicant: The New York Structural Biology 
Laboratory, 89 Convent Avenue at 133rd St, New York, NY 10027. 
Instrument: Electron Microscope, Model JEM 2100F. Manufacturer: JEOL, 
Ltd., Japan. Intended Use: The instrument is intended to be used by ten 
educational and research institutions in New York to investigate, among 
other things, biological assemblies ranging from isolated protein 
molecules, complexes of protein molecules potentially bound to nucleic 
acids or membranes, crystalline arrays composed of these protein 
complexes, cells, viruses, or intact tissues to pursue a wide variety 
of biological problems. In addition to standard methods of electron 
microscopy, work will be done using the procedure of electron 
tomography which is like a CAT scan at molecular proportions, involving 
the imaging of a given cellular assembly which is systematically tilted 
to different angles. It will alsobe used in student courses. 
Application accepted by Commissioner of Customs: March 6, 2006.
Docket Number: 06-010. Applicant: Emory University Hospital, 1364 
Clifton Road, NE, Atlanta, GA 30322. Instrument: Electron Microscope, 
Model Mogagni 268. Manufacturer: FEI Company, The Netherlands. Intended 
Use: The instrument is intended to be used for examination of normal, 
abnormal and pathological changes in human cells and tissue samples. 
Experiments will be conducted based on ultrastructural examination of 
human kidney biopsies for documentation of pathologic change, if any, 
for diagnostic evaluation. Ultrathin sections of epoxy embedded 
specimens under high magnification will be preserved for pathological 
review. Application accepted by Commissioner of Customs: March 1, 2000.
Docket Number: 06-011. Applicant: President and Fellows of Harvard 
College, 9 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138. Instrument: Electron 
Microscope, Model JEM-2100. Manufacturer: JEOL Ltd., Japan. Intended 
Use: The instrument is intended to be used to study and characterize 
nanoscale structures and chemical compositions of novel materials such 
as semi-conducting materials, nano metallic catalysts and polymers, 
etc. Some examples include chemical composition by energy-dispersive x-
ray spectroscopy, identification of phases and crystal structures by 
electron diffraction, interfacial arrangements of atomic structures 
between polymer materials by stain-inducted contrast imaging and 
lattice-fringe imaging of metallic thin films and alloys. Application 
accepted by Commissioner of Customs: March 20, 2006.
Docket Number: 06-013. Applicant: Ames Laboratory - U.S. Department of 
Energy REF: A5-2764, 211, TASF, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 
50011-3020. Instrument: Electron Microscope, Model Technai G[bds2] F20 
X-TWIN. Manufacturer: FEI Company, the Netherlands. Intended Use: The 
instrument is intended to be used to provide both the imaging and 
spectrographic analysis necessary to evaluate materials ranging from 
rapidly solidified metals, nanoscale magnetic alloys, directionally 
solidified metal alloys, mesoporous catalysis and novel polymer 
compounds. With reduced length scale of materials, interaction with 
their environment changes. The instrument will allow probing the 
chemistry and atomic arrangements (nanostructure) down to the level of 
the atoms and to assess the success of processing procedures. 
Application accepted by Commissioner of Customs: March 23, 2006.
Docket Number: 06-014. Applicant: Howard Hughes Medical Institute, 
Harvard Medical School, 77 Ave. Louis Pasteur, Boston, MA 02115. 
Instrument: Confocal Microscope. Manufacturer: Evotec, Germany. 
Intended Use: The instrument is intended to be used to assign 
phenotopic signatures (phenoprints) to every Drosophilia gene using 
genome-wide RNAi screens. These can be used to cluster genes that are 
functionally related and important in functional genomics. The 
instrument combines the high resolution of confocal laser scanning 
microscopy with ultra high throughput (>200,00 images per day) and an 
integrated fast autofocus system provides maximal resolution and lowest 
background. Application accepted by Commissioner of Customs: March 24, 
2006.

Gerald A. Zerdy,
Program Manager, Statutory Import Programs Staff.
[FR Doc. E6-5195 Filed 4-7-06; 8:45 am]
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