[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 158 (Friday, August 15, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 43709-43710]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-21712]


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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.

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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 Room 
4211, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution Avenue, 
N.W., Washington, D.C.
    Docket Number: 97-060. Applicant: The Pennsylvania State 
University, Chemistry Department, 152 Davey Laboratory, University 
Park, PA 16802. Instrument: NMR Spectrometer, Model Avance DRX-600. 
Manufacturer: Bruker Instruments, Inc., Switzerland. Intended Use: The 
instrument will be used for studies of proteins and nucleic acids 
produced in the research laboratories of the chemistry and the 
biochemistry and molecular biology departments. The experiments are all 
state-of-the-art nuclear magnetic resonance experiments. Most will be 
in aqueous solution and involve multiple nuclei: <SUP>1</SUP> H, 
<SUP>2</SUP> H, <SUP>15</SUP> N, <SUP>13</SUP> C, and <SUP>31</SUP> P. 
Application accepted by Commissioner of Customs: July 15, 1997.

    Docket Number: 97-062. Applicant: Clemson University, Department of 
Bioengineering, 501 Rhodes Engineering Research Center, P.O. Box 
340905, Clemson, SC 29634-0905. Instrument: Knee Joint Simulator. 
Manufacturer: UCL Ltd., United Kingdom. Intended Use: The instrument 
will be used for a research program conducted to provide materials and 
designs for artificial joints that can last longer than those presently 
used. The relevant research projects will include but are not limited 
to the following:
    (1) Reciprocating-Sliding Wear Resistance of Orthopaedic Titanium 
Alloys,
    (2) Ultrasonic Method for In-situ Continuous Wear Measurements of 
Orthopaedic Alloys,
    (3) Analytical Modeling of Total Knee Replacement: Effect of 
Misalignment,
    (4) Elastomeric Composites as Bearing Surfaces, and
    (5) Improving Boundary Lubrication of Elastomeric Bearing Surfaces.
    In addition, the instrument will be used for educational purposes 
in various bioengineering courses. Application accepted by Commissioner 
of Customs: July 16, 1997.
    Docket Number: 97-064. Applicant: University of Illinois at Urbana-
Champaign, Purchasing Division, 506 South Wright Street, 207 Henry 
Administration Building, Urbana, IL 61801. Instrument: Reflection High 
Energy Electron Gun. Manufacturer: Focus GmbH, Germany. Intended Use: 
The instrument will be used for a variety of studies on the mechanisms 
of growth of thin films. In particular, there will be studies of 
magnetic multilayer materials; of the effect of surface steps on films 
growth and of a technique called convergent beam diffraction. This 
instrument allows both real time monitoring of the growth conditions 
and quick and reliable post-growth quality control of the films' 
crystallinity prior to further study via transfer into a separate low-
energy electron microscope to perform further microscopic studies 
without the necessity of breaking vacuum. Application accepted by 
Commissioner of Customs: July 17, 1997.

    Docket Number: 97-065. Applicant: Princeton University, P.O. Box 
33, Princeton, NJ 08544-0033. Instrument: (50) Seismometers.  
Manufacturer:  Guralp Systems Ltd., United Kingdom. Intended Use: The 
instruments will be used to study earthquakes and the interior 
structure of the earth in a newly devised high school science 
curriculum, in which students study seismicity and try to answer 
fundamental geophysical questions about the earth. Application accepted 
by Commissioner of Customs:  July 17, 1997.

    Docket Number: 97-066. Applicant: University of California, San 
Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, 7835 Trade Street, San 
Diego, CA 92121. Instrument: Wave Measurement Equipment. Manufacturer: 
Datawell bv, The Netherlands. Intended Use: The instruments will be 
used in support of ongoing and proposed research on the evolution of 
directional wave spectra across the continental shelf and near complex 
bathymetric features. The instrument will significantly expand 
Department of Defense wave data measurement capabilities on the shelf 
and will be used over the next 5 years by a consortium of Office of 
Naval Research principal investigators studying wave propagation 
processes in a wide range of geographic settings. Application accepted 
by Commissioner of Customs: July 22, 1997.

    Docket Number: 97-067. Applicant: Princeton University, P.O. Box 
33, Princeton, NJ 08544-0033. Instrument: EPR Spectrometer, Model E580 
FT/CW. Manufacturer: Bruker Instruments, Germany. Intended Use: The 
instrument will be used for studies of sample paramagnetic materials 
obtained from various sources including chemical synthesis and natural 
products. The research projects will include the following:
    (1) Structure and function of multi-nuclear metallo-enzymes,
    (2) Molecular probes of the mechanism of cytochrome,
    (3) ENDOR studies of metalloproteins,
    (4) Observing and exploiting intermolecular multiple-quantum 
coherences in solution ESR,
    (5) EPR analysis of photoluminescent porous silicon,
    (6) Core transformation in iron-sulfur clusters,
    (7) Pulsed EPR studies of vanadium partial oxidation catalysts and,
    (8) Dynamics of cation diffusion to ionomers.
    In addition, the instrument will be used for educational purposes 
in the course ``Electron Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopies: Survey of 
Techniques, Applications and Spectral Interpretation.'' Application 
accepted by Commissioner of Customs: July 28, 1997.
Frank W. Creel,
Director, Statutory Import Programs Staff.
[FR Doc. 97-21712 Filed 8-14-97; 8:45 am]
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