[Federal Register Volume 72, Number 198 (Monday, October 15, 2007)]
[Notices]
[Pages 58286-58287]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E7-20263]


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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 postmarked on or before November 5, 2007. Address written 
comments to Statutory Import Programs Staff, Room 2104, U.S. Department 
of Commerce,

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Washington, D.C. 20230. Applications may be examined between 8:30 A.M. 
and 5:00 P.M. at the U.S. Department of Commerce in Room 2104.
Docket Number: 07-055. Applicant: University of Oklahoma, Mewbourne 
School of Petroleum and Geological Engineering, 100 E. Boyd Street, 
Suite T-301, Norman, OK 73019. Instrument: Electron Microscope, Quanta 
200. Manufacturer: FEI Company, Czech Republic. Intended Use: The 
instrument is intended to be used for teaching several undergraduate 
and graduate courses/laboratories in the Petroleum Engineering 
Department. Students will use the environmental scanning electron 
microscope to study rocks mineral composition, cementation, 
microstructure, pore size distribution etc. Application accepted by 
Commissioner of Customs: September 14, 2007.
Docket Number: 07-057. Applicant: University of Alabama at Birmingham, 
1720-7th Avenue South - SC 501, Birmingham, AL 35294-0017. Instrument: 
Electron Microscope, Model H-7650-II. Manufacturer: Hitachi High-
Technologies Corp., Japan. Intended Use: The instrument is intended to 
be used to study the ultrastructure of brain tissue from experimental 
animals and postmortem human samples. The objectives are to describe 
normal human brain ultrastructure, ultrastructural abnormalities in the 
postmortem brains of subjects with brain disease and normal and 
abnormal ultrastructure in experimental animals. Application accepted 
by Commissioner of Customs: September 14, 2007.
Docket Number: 07-064. Applicant: Stowers Institute for Medical 
Research, 901 Volker Blvd., Kansas City, MO.64110. Instrument: Electron 
Microscope, Model Tecnai G2. Manufacturer: FEI Company, Czech Republic. 
Intended Use: The instrument is intended to be used to obtain high 
resolution and high contrast images of various cellular structures from 
research models. Application accepted by Commissioner of Customs: 
September 7, 2007.
Docket Number: 07-065. Applicant: State University of New York at 
Binghamton, 4400 Vestal Parkway East, Binghamton, NY 13902. Instrument: 
Electron Microscope, Model Nova 600 NanoLab, FEI Company, Netherlands. 
Intended Use: The instrument is to be used to provide a single chamber 
to image, analyze and cross section devices, layers, and interfaces. 
Application accepted by Commissioner of Customs: September 25, 2007.

    Dated: Ocotober 9, 2007.
Faye Robinson,
Director, Statutory Import Programs Staff.
[FR Doc. E7-20263 Filed 10-12-07; 8:45 am]
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