65296 Federal Register / Vol. 65, No. 212 / Wednesday, November 1, 2000 / Notices

This five-year (‘‘sunset’’) review and

notice are in accordance with sections

751(c), 752, and 777(i)(1) of the Act.

Dated: October 26, 2000.

Troy H. Cribb,

Assistant Secretary for Import

Administration.

[FR Doc. 00–28043 Filed 10–31–00; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P

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; 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,

DC 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, NW., Washington, DC.

Docket Number: 00–033. Applicant:

University of Florida, Department of

Geological Sciences, 241 Williamson

Hall, PO Box 112120, Gainesville, FL

32611. Instrument: Multi-Sensor Core

Logger. Manufacturer: GEOTEK Ltd.,

United Kingdom. Intended Use: The

instrument is intended to be used to

rapidly, accurately and automatically

collect information on physical

properties of sediment cores collected

from locations such as the bottom of

lakes, the ocean, and wetlands. The

objective of the research is to provide

further information (P-wave velocity,

density, magnetic susceptibility,

sediment core thickness and high

resolution visible images) about past

conditions recorded in sediment cores.

The data will be combined with the

geochemical, isotopic, botanical, and

sedimentological data that are already

collected on these sediment cores. In

addition, the instrument will be used for

educational purposes in Paleolimnology

(GLY 6932) the study of past lake

systems and the records of climate,

biology, vegetation, etc. preserved in

lake sediments. The class introduces

methods of study of past climates of the

Quaternary period. Application

accepted by Commissioner of Customs:

October 17, 2000.

Docket Number: 00–034. Applicant:

University of Rochester, Lab for Laser

Energetics, 250 East River Road,

Rochester, NY 14623. Instrument:

Scanning Nearfield Optical Microscope.

Manufacturer: WITec, Germany.

Intended Use: The instrument is

intended to be used for studies of both

inorganic crystals and glasses as used in

advanced optical technologies and

organic substances such as polymers

and biopolymers that may be present in

optical materials either as undesired

impurities or for the purpose of

enhancing the materials’ performance.

The analysis tasks are of the spatially

resolved spectroscopy type: (a) Raman

Imaging, (b) single-molecule emission

and (c) nonlocal fluorescence

spectroscopy. In addition, the

instrument will be used for educational

purposes in ‘‘Nanooptics’’ a graduate

level course that introduces doctorallevel students to the principles and

applications of subwavelength optical

phenomena and applications.

Application accepted by Commissioner

of Customs: October 17, 2000.

Frank W. Creel,

Director, Statutory Import Programs Staff.

[FR Doc. 00–28044 Filed 10–31–00; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P

COMMITTEE FOR THE

IMPLEMENTATION OF TEXTILE

AGREEMENTS

Exemption for Certain Textile and

Apparel Articles from Designated

Caribbean Basin Trade Partnership Act

Beneficiary Countries from Existing

Quota, Guaranteed Access Levels

(GALs), Visa and GAL Certification

Requirements

October 30, 2000.

AGENCY: Committee for the

Implementation of Textile Agreements

(CITA).

ACTION: Issuing a directive to the

Commissioner of Customs exempting

certain textile and apparel articles from

quota, Guaranteed Access Levels

(GALs), visa and GAL certification

requirements.

EFFECTIVE DATE: October 2, 2000.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Naomi Freeman, International Trade

Specialist, Office of Textiles and

Apparel, U.S. Department of Commerce,

(202) 482–4212.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Authority: Section 211 of the Trade and

Development Act of 2000 (19 U.S.C. 2703);

Presidential Proclamation 7351 of October 2,

2000; Section 204 of the Agricultural Act of

1956, as amended (7 U.S.C. 1854); Executive

Order 11651 of March 3, 1972, as amended.

Section 211 of the Trade and

Development Act of 2000 provides duty

and quota-free treatment for certain

textile and apparel articles imported

from designated Caribbean Basin Trade

Partnership Act (CBTPA) beneficiary

countries. On October 2, 2000, the

President designated Costa Rica,

Dominican Republic, El Salvador,

Guatemala, Haiti, Jamaica and Panama,

among others, as CBTPA beneficiary

countries (Proclamation 7351, 65 FR

59329, published on October 4, 2000).

Effective October 2, 2000, the U.S.

Trade Representative determined that

these countries, among others, have

implemented and follow, or are making

substantial progress towards

implementing and following, the

customs procedures required by the

CBTPA, and the U.S. Trade

Representative amended the

Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the

United States (HTS) to provide the tariff

treatment authorized under the CBTPA

for goods from these countries (65 FR

60236, published on October 10, 2000).

The CBTPA provides that textile and

apparel articles that qualify for CBTPA

benefits shall enter the United States

free of duty and free of any quantitative

restriction, limitation, or consultation

level. Therefore, CITA directs the U.S.

Customs Service no longer to impose

specific limits on textile and apparel

articles from Costa Rica, Dominican

Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti,

Jamaica and Panama that qualify for

preferential treatment under Section 211

of the Trade and Development Act of

2000, and no longer to impose

Guaranteed Access Levels (GALs), visa

and GAL certification requirements for

these articles.

Benefits under Section 211 for certain

knit apparel from all beneficiary

countries are limited in each of the oneyear periods, beginning on October 1,

2000 and ending on September 30, 2008

(19 U.S.C. 2703(b)(2)(A)(iii)(I, II).

Similarly, benefits under this provision

for t-shirts are also limited during this

period (19 U.S.C. 2703(b)(2)(A)(iii)(III,

IV). Applicable quota and visa