[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 28 (Tuesday, February 11, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 6215-6216]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-3360]


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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: 96-144. Applicant: Massachusetts Institute of 
Technology, Department of Chemistry, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Building 
18, Room 591, Cambridge, MA 02139. Instrument: Dual Mixing Stopped-Flow 
System, Model SF-61. Manufacturer: Hi-Tech Scientific, United Kingdom. 
Intended Use: The article is intended to be used to conduct pre-steady-
state kinetic studies of the reaction mechanisms of multicomponent 
enzymes and inorganic model compounds under controlled conditions of 
temperature, pH ionic strength, solvent composition and oxygen tension. 
Application accepted by Commissioner of Customs: December 27, 1996.
    Docket Number: 96-145. Applicant: Georgia Institute of Technology, 
Georgia Tech Research Institute, 225 North Avenue, Atlanta, GA 30322-
0834. Instrument: Ion-Assisted Deposition System, Model APS 1104. 
Manufacturer: Leybold AG. Intended Use: The instrument will be used in 
studies of luminescent materials (SrS:Ce,F; SiON; Al<INF>2O<INF>3; 
Indium tin oxide; ZnS:Mn) that will be deposited as very thin films on 
substrate materials. The main thrust of the research will be 
development of the ion assisted deposition technique to deposit the 
above materials in crystalline form at relatively low substrate 
temperatures (200-500 deg.C). In addition, the instrument will be used 
for educational purposes in graduate level special topic courses in 
thin film disposition science offered in the Electrical Engineering, 
Physics and Material Science and Engineering Schools. Application 
accepted by Commissioner of Customs: December 27, 1996.
    Docket Number: 96-146. Applicant: University of California, San 
Diego, Scripps Institute of Oceanography, 7835 Trade Street, San Diego, 
CA 92121. Instrument: (2) Directional Waverider Buoys. Manufacturer: 
Datawell, BV, The Netherlands. Intended Use: The instrument will be 
deployed across the continental shelf to monitor and verify wave 
evolution modeling efforts. Application accepted by Commissioner of 
Customs: December 30, 1996.
    Docket Number: 96-147. Applicant: U.S. Geological Survey, Box 
25046, MS

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977, Denver Federal Center, Denver, CO 80225. Instrument: Mass 
Spectrometer, Model Optima. Manufacturer: Micromass, United Kingdom. 
Intended Use: The instrument will be used to study the stable isotope 
variations that resulted during the formation and history of rocks, 
minerals and gases from a variety of geologic sites and contexts. 
Application accepted by Commissioner of Customs: December 30, 1996.
    Docket Number: 96-148. Applicant: Woods Hole Oceanographic 
Institution, Bell House, MS 39, 221 Oyster Pond Road, Woods Hole, MA 
02543-1531. Instrument: Mass Spectrometer, Model MAT ELEMENT. 
Manufacturer: Finnigan MAT, Germany. Intended Use: The instrument will 
be used for elemental and isotopic analyses of seawater, sediments, 
microfossils, plankton, corals and rocks. Applications will range from 
the study of natural and artificial radionuclides in the environment, 
the marine chemistry of trace metals, ecotoxicology, petrology of 
basaltic rocks, paleoceanographic studies, climate change studies, etc. 
In addition, the instrument will be used to instruct students in its 
use. Application accepted by Commissioner of Customs: December 31, 
1996.
    Docket Number: 96-149. Applicant: University of Vermont, Department 
of Physical Therapy, 305 Rowell Building, Burlington, VT 05405-0068. 
Instrument: Motion Analysis System and Telemg System, Model Elite Plus. 
Manufacturer: Bioengineering Technology & Systems, Italy. Intended Use: 
The instrument will be used for human movement studies focusing on 
human gait, posture and balance and upper extremity movement. These 
studies are aimed at quantifying and understanding normal and 
disordered human movement from neurological, physiologic, biomechanical 
and behavioral perspectives. Application accepted by Commissioner of 
Customs: December 31, 1996.
Frank W. Creel,
Director, Statutory Import Programs Staff.
[FR Doc. 97-3360 Filed 2-10-97; 8:45 am]
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