[Federal Register Volume 72, Number 158 (Thursday, August 16, 2007)]
[Notices]
[Pages 46037-46038]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E7-16153]


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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, as amended by Pub. 
L. 106-36; 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 Statutory Import Programs Staff, U.S. 
Department of Commerce, Room 2104, 14th and Constitution Ave., 
Washington, D.C. 20230. Applications may be examined between 8:30 A.M. 
and 5:00 P.M. in Room 2104, U.S. Department of Commerce.
Docket Number: 07-047. Applicant: University of Southern California, 
University Park, Los Angeles, CA 90089. Instrument: Electron 
Microscope, Model JEM-1400. Manufacturer: JEOL, Ltd., Japan. Intended 
Use: The instrument is intended to be used to decipher local structural 
organization in cells and tissues, to visualize the shapes of proteins 
as they undergo conformational reorganization into elongated amyloid 
fibrils and other spherical structures and to investigate other larger 
molecular nano- particles. Application accepted by Commissioner of 
Customs: June 18, 2007.
Docket Number: 07-050. Applicant: University of Massachusetts Medical 
School, 55 Lake Avenue North Worcester, MA 01655. Instrument: Electron 
Microscope, Model Quanta 200 FEG . Manufacturer: FEI Company, Czech 
Republic Intended Use: The instrument is intended to be used to study 
the distribution of cilia on cell surfaces, the structure of bone cells 
in healthy and diseased bone, the structure of fly antennae in flies 
with mutations homologous to human disease mutations, the structure of 
mouse embryos, the means of entry of pathogens into cells and the 
distribution of cell surface receptors involved in the immune response 
and various other biological issues. Application accepted by 
Commissioner of Customs: July 23, 2007.
Docket Number: 07-049. Applicant: Indiana University, 400 East Seventh

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Street, Room 404, Bloomington, IN 47405 . Instrument: Electron 
Microscope, Model JEM-3200FS. Manufacturer: JEOL Ltd., Japan Intended 
Use: The instrument is intended to be used for, among other purposes: 
structure/function studies of modified icosahedral virus particles with 
long term applications in biomedical imaging and drug delivery; real 
time structure determination of viruses and their assembly 
intermediates for creating pH sensors and finding novel targets for 
drug delivery; analysis of microbial biofilms and the structural and 
chemical analysis of nanoparticles that are used as materials science 
platforms. Application accepted by Commissioner of Customs: July 23, 
2007.
Docket Number: 06-042. Applicant: The University of Illinois at Urbana-
Champaign, 616 E. Green St., Ste. 212, Champaign, IL 61820. Instrument: 
electron microscope, Model JEM-2200FS. Manufacturer: JEOL, Ltd., Japan. 
Intended Use: The instrument is intended to be used by a centralized 
facility for the microanalysis of materials. Properties of materials 
studied include: relation of structure to catalytic activity; strain 
and composition distribution within the nanostructures, effects of 
impurities on the strength of materials, domain structure, ordering 
mechanisms and coherency strain effects and structural motifs of 
chromosome architecture and its modification. Application accepted by 
Commissioner of Customs: July 10, 2006.
Docket Number: 07-052. Applicant: Scripps Research Institute, 10550 
North Torry Pines Road, La Jolla, CA 92307. Instrument: Electron 
Microscope (2), Tecnai G2 Spirit TWIN and Morgagni TEM. Manufacturer: 
FEI Company, Czech Republic. Intended Use: The instrument is intended 
to be used for structural investigations of biological macromolecular 
assemblies including: structure of COPII coated vesicles, molecular 
motors, electron dense labels for macromolecules, high resolution 
structures among bacteriophages, structure of the HIV capsid assembly 
and characterization of the chloroplast ribosome. Application accepted 
by Commissioner of Customs: July 31, 2007.

Faye Robinson,
Director, Statutory Import Programs Staff, Import Administration.
[FR Doc. E7-16153 Filed 8-15-07; 8:45 am]
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