[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 25 (Thursday, February 6, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 5619-5620]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-2880]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

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 Room 
4211, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution Avenue, 
N.W., Washington, D.C.
    Docket Number: 96-136. Applicant: Washington University, Department 
of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Campus Box 1169, One Brookings Drive, 
St. Louis, MO 63130-4899. Instrument: Mass Spectrometer, Model MAT 252. 
Manufacturer: Finnigan MAT, Germany. Intended Use: The instrument is 
intended to be used for investigations focusing on: (1) Understanding 
the temporal variations in rivers and springs, (2) the behavior of 
fossil hydrothermal systems, (3) the origin of granitic batholiths, 
evaporation processes in lakes and other natural water bodies, (4) 
isotopic tracing of subsurface fluids, climatic change and (5) isotopic 
variations in calcareous organisms. In addition, the instrument will be 
used for educational purposes in earth and planetary science courses. 
Application accepted by Commissioner of Customs: December 11, 1996.
    Docket Number: 96-139. Applicant: U. S. Department of Agriculture, 
Agricultural Research Service, U. S. Water Conservation Laboratory, 
4331 E. Broadway Road, Phoenix, AZ 85040-8832. Instrument: Mass 
Spectrometer, Model Isochrom. Manufacturer: Micromass, Inc., United 
Kingdom. Intended Use: The instrument will be used to analyze soil and 
plant materials which contain stable isotopes of carbon and nitrogen 
used as tracers to follow biological processes. Application accepted by 
Commissioner of Customs: December 19, 1996.
    Docket Number: 96-140. Applicant: Associated Universities, Inc., 
Brookhaven National Laboratory, Building 480, Upton, NY 11973. 
Instrument: Electron Microscope with Accessories, Model JEM-3000F. 
Manufacturer: JEOL, Ltd., Japan. Intended Use: The instrument will be 
used to study high temperature superconductors, high field permanent 
magnets and interfaces between metals and coatings. The preliminary 
research plans include studies of: (a) Charge and charge transfer, (b) 
microcomposition, atomic structure and charge distribution at grain 
boundaries and interfaces and (c) local structural disorder by electron 
diffuse scattering, imaging and computer simulation. Application 
accepted by Commissioner of Customs: December 19, 1996.
    Docket Number: 96-141. Applicant: Oregon Graduate Institute of 
Science and Technology, P.O. Box 91000, Portland, OR 97291-1000. 
Instrument: Stopped-Flow Spectrometer, Model SX.18MV. Manufacturer: 
Applied Photophysics, Ltd., United Kingdom. Intended Use: The 
instrument will be used to study the kinetic mechanism of wild-type and 
mutant lignin-degrading peroxidases and other redox enzymes from wood-
degrading fungi. Application accepted by Commissioner of Customs: 
December 19, 1996.
    Docket Number: 96-142. Applicant: The University of Tennessee, 
Knoxville, Department of Physics and Astronomy, 401 Nielsen Physics 
Building, Knoxville, TN 37996-1200. Instrument: Energy Analyzer and 
Power Supply, Model SES-200. Manufacturer: Scienta Instrument AB, 
Sweden. Intended Use: The instrument will be used to uncover new 
physical and chemical phenomena

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at the surface or in thin films, such as the existence of charge 
density wave distortions at the surface, Fermi surface instabilities 
and metal-to-nonmetal transitions in thin films. The low electron 
energy capabilities of the instrument will be used to investigate the 
development of collective excitations in thin films and to probe the 
bulk properties of correlated electron systems containing metals or 
rare earth elements. Application accepted by Commissioner of Customs: 
December 19, 1996.
    Docket Number: 96-143. Applicant: University of Alabama, Center for 
Materials for Information Technology, P.O. Box 870209, Tuscaloosa, AL 
35487-0209. Instrument: Auger XPS Spectrometer. Manufacturer: Kratos 
Analytical, Inc. Intended Use: The instrument will be used to conduct 
materials research of soft FeXN films, magnetic nanostructures, giant 
magnetoresistance, exchange coupling, high coercivity films, wear 
characteristics, corrosion, magnetic particles and composites. In 
addition, the instrument will be used for educational purposes in 
metallurgical and materials engineering courses. Application accepted 
by Commissioner of Customs: December 23, 1996.
Frank W. Creel,
Director, Statutory Import Programs Staff.
[FR Doc. 97-2880 Filed 2-5-97; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 3510-DS-P