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materials. In addition, the instrument

will be used to train graduate students

in their thesis research. All results will

be made public and published in

scientific journals. Application accepted

by Commissioner of Customs: April 30,

1998.

Frank W. Creel,

Director, Statutory Import Programs Staff.

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

University of Wisconsin-Madison, et

al.; Notice of Consolidated Decision on

Applications for Duty-Free Entry of

Scientific Instruments

This is a decision consolidated

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). Related records can be viewed

between 8:30 A.M. and 5:00 P.M. in

Room 4211, U.S. Department of

Commerce, 14th and Constitution

Avenue, NW, Washington, DC

Comments: None received. Decision:

Approved. No instrument of equivalent

scientific value to the foreign

instruments described below, for such

purposes as each is intended to be used,

is being manufactured in the United

States.

Docket Number: 98–011. Applicant:

University of Wisconsin-Madison,

Stoughton, WI 53589. Instrument:

Hydrostatic Leveling System.

Manufacturer: Fogale-Nanotech, France.

Intended Use: See notice at 63 FR

12451, March 13, 1998. Reasons: The

foreign instrument provides

measurements of vertical position from

a group of remote sensors (using a

water-level reference) with a range of

measurement from 6.0 to 8.5 mm and a

precision of 1 μm. Advice received from:

Argonne National Laboratory, April 29,

1998.

Docket Number: 98–015. Applicant:

Brown University, Providence, RI

02912. Instrument: Material Preparation

and Crystal Growth System, Model

MCGS5. Manufacturer: Crystallox, Ltd.,

United Kingdom. Intended Use: See

notice at 63 FR 15831, April 1, 1998.

Reasons: The foreign instrument

provides crystal growth using cold

crucible or Bridgman technique for

materials with very high melting point

using 50kW induction heating. Advice

received from: National Aeronautics and

Space Administration, May 5, 1998.

The Argonne National Laboratory and

the National Aeronautics and Space

Administration advise that (1) the

capabilities of each of the foreign

instruments described above are

pertinent to each applicant’s intended

purpose and (2) they know of no

domestic instrument or apparatus of

equivalent scientific value for the

intended use of each instrument.

We know of no other instrument or

apparatus being manufactured in the

United States which is of equivalent

scientific value to either of the foreign

instruments.

Frank W. Creel,

Director, Statutory Import Programs Staff.

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University of Texas at Austin; Notice of

Decision on Application for Duty-Free

Entry of Scientific Instrument

This decision is made 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).

Related records can be viewed between

8:30 A.M. and 5:00 P.M. in Room 4211,

U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th and

Constitution Avenue, N.W.,

Washington, D.C.

Docket Number: 98–001. Applicant:

University of Texas at Austin, Austin,

TX 78712. Instrument: IR Image

Furnace, Model SC–M35HD.

Manufacturer: NEC Nichiden Machinery

Ltd., Japan. Intended Use: See notice at

63 FR 8164, February 18, 1998.

Comments: None received. Decision:

Approved. No instrument of equivalent

scientific value to the foreign

instrument, for such purposes as it is

intended to be used, is being

manufactured in the United States.

Reasons: The foreign instrument

provides growth of oxide monocrystals

using the traveling floating melt zone

method. The National Aeronautics and

Space Administration advised February

2, 1998 that (1) this capability is

pertinent to the applicant’s intended

purpose and (2) it knows of no domestic

instrument or apparatus of equivalent

scientific value to the foreign

instrument for the applicant’s intended

use (comparable case).

We know of no other instrument or

apparatus of equivalent scientific value

to the foreign instrument which is being

manufactured in the United States.

Frank W. Creel,

Director, Statutory Import Programs Staff.

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National Institute of Standards and

Technology

[Docket No. 98040112–8112–01]

American Lumber Standard

Committee; Additional Memberships

Approved

AGENCY: National Institute of Standards

and Technology (NIST), Commerce.

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: The National Institute of

Standards and Technology announces

that the Secretary of Commerce

approved the request of the American

Lumber Standard Commtitee (‘‘the

Committee’’) to allow membership for

the National Lumber Grades Authority

(NLGA) of Canada under Section 9.3.1

(rules-writing agencies) and for wood

treaters under Section 9.3.3 (other

interested and affected groups) of DOC

Voluntary Product Standard PS 20–94

‘‘American Softwood Lumber

Standard.’’

ADDRESSES: Barbara M. Meigs, Office of

Standards Services, National Institute of

Standards and Technology, Room 164,

Building 820, Gaithersburg, MD 20899.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Barbara M. Meigs, telephone: 301–975–

4025, fax: 301–926–1559, e-mail:

barbara.meigs@nist.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section

9.3.7 of DOC Voluntary Product

Standard PS 20–94 ‘‘American

Softwood Lumber Standard,’’ developed

under procedures published by the

Department of Commerce (15 CFR Part

10), provides that the Secretary of

Commerce, upon request, may consider

making additional appointments to the

Committee to ensure that it has a

comprehensive balance of interests.

On February 13, 1997, NIST

published a notice in the Federal

Register (62 FR 6761) announcing that it

was considering a request received from

the Committee. The Committee, after its

annual meeting in December 1996, had

sent a letter to NIST requesting that one

voting membership for the NLGA of

Canada and one for wood treaters be

approved. NIST announced a 90-day

comment period to allow for public

comment on the recommendation.

During the comment period, which

ended on May 14, 1997, one current and
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one former member of the Committee

submitted objections to the NLGA and

wood-treaters memberships. On October

29, 1997, after considering the

Committee’s recommendation and the

comments of those who responded to

the Federal Register notice, the

Secretary of Commerce approved the

recommendation of the Committee to

allow one principal member and one

alternate to represent the NLGA under

Section 9.3.1 of PS 20–94 and one

principal member and one alternate to

represent wood treaters under Section

9.3.3.

Authority: 15 U.S.C. 272.

Dated: May 8, 1998.

Robert E. Hebner,

Acting Deputy Director.

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Institute of Standards and

Technology

Notice of Government Owned

Inventions Available for Licensing

AGENCY: National Institute of Standards

and Technology, Commerce.

SUMMARY: The inventions listed below

are owned in whole or in part by the

U.S. Government, as represented by the

Department of Commerce. The

Department of Commerce’s ownership

interest in the inventions are available

for licensing in accordance with 35

U.S.C. 207 and 37 CFR Part 404 to

achieve expeditious commercialization

of results of Federally funded research

and development.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Technical and licensing information on

these inventions may be obtained by

writing to: National Institute of

Standards and Technology, Industrial

Partnerships Program, Building 820,

Room 213, Gaithersburg, MD 20899; Fax

301–869–2751. Any request for

information should include the NIST

Docket No. and Title for the relevant

invention as indicated below.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: NIST may

enter into a Cooperative Research and

Development Agreement (‘‘CRADA’’)

with the licensee to perform further

research on the inventions for purposes

of commercialization. The inventions

available for licensing are:

NIST Docket Number: 97–026.

Title: Method and Apparatus for

Diffraction Measurement Using A

Scanning X-Ray Source.

Abstract: This invention is jointly

owned by the U.S. Government, as

represented by the Secretary of

Commerce, and Digiray Corporation.

The present invention relates to x-ray

diffraction measurement by using

moving x-ray source x-ray diffraction.

The invention comprises a rasterscanned x-ray source, a specimen, a

collimator, and a detector. The x-ray

source is electronically scanned which

allows a complete image of the x-ray

diffraction characteristics of the

specimen to be produced. The specimen

is placed remote from the x-ray source

and the detector. The collimator is

located directly in front of the detector.

The x-rays are diffracted by the

specimen at certain angles, which cause

them to travel through the collimator

and to the detector. The detector may be

placed in any radial location relative to

the specimen in order to take the

necessary measurements. The detector

can detect the intensity and/or the

wavelength of the diffracted x-ray. All

information needed to solve the Bragg

equation as well as the Laue equations

is available. The x-ray source may be

scanned electronically or mechanically.

The present invention is used to

perform texture analysis and phase

identification.

NIST Docket Number: 96–042.

Title: High Strength Polymeric

Networks Derived (Meth) Acrylate

Resins With Organoflourine Content

and Process For Preparing Same.

Abstract: Disclosed are fluorinated

materials for use in dental uses and nondental uses, e.g., adhesives or coatings.

Multifunctional monomers and

prepolymers with pendant (meth)

acrylate groups were prepared from

epoxide-ring-opening reactions. Resins

based on the fluorinated monomers and

prepolymers with diluent comonomers,

were photocured as composites with

particulate fillers. Fluorine contents of

the prepolymers ranged from 15 to 65%.

Composites with high transverse

strength (up to 120 MPa), low water

sorption (as low as 0.11 mass %) and

extremely low polymerization shrinkage

(as low as 3.4% by volume) were

obtained. The fluorinated resins may be

employed to produce hydrophobic

dental composite materials with high

strength and low polymerization

shrinkage.

NIST Docket Number: 96–038US.

Title: Fractional Phase Measurement

By Polarization-Dependent

Spectroscopy.

Abstract: The invention provides an

inexpensive, noninvasive optical

method of quantitatively determining

the volume fraction of anisotroic

material in a mixture of anisotropic and

isotropic material, and more particularly

for determining the volume fraction of

noncubic crystalline material in a

mixed-phase specimen having noncubic

crystalline material intermixed with

cubic crystalline material. Polarized

light is impinged on the specimen and

the reflectance or transmission

difference between two orthogonal

polarizations directions is measured. In

cubic regions the reflectance or

transmission is the same along both

polarization directions so the

contributions to the difference cancel,

leaving a signal only from the noncubic

regions. The optical difference can be

measured as a function of wavelength

and critical points in the band structure,

including the band gap, can be profiled.

From the band structure the film

composition can be determined. This

measurement is particularly suited to

measuring III–V nitride semiconductor

specimens having regions with

zincblende symmetry mixed with

regions of wurtzite symmetry.

NIST Docket Number: 96–025

Title: Broadband, UltrahighSensitivity Chemical Sensor Based on

Intra-Cavity Total Reflection.

Abstract: This NIST invention permits

broadband, ultra-sensitive measurement

of optical absorption for any state of

matter by the cavity ring-down

technique using a small, monolithic,

total internal reflection ring cavity. It

significantly advances the sensitivity,

accuracy, and adaptability of optical

absorption spectroscopy for decisive

qualitative and quantitative chemical

analysis, with greatly increased trace

analysis capability.

NIST Docket Number: 95–022.

Title: A Time Stamp Service for the

National Information Network.

Abstract: This NIST invention

consists of a method for applying a

signed time-stamp to a document in

digital format for the purpose of proving

that the document existed on the date it

was signed. Any digital-format

document can be signed including

simple text files, binary files, scanned

images, etc. The document can be

encrypted or encoded. The time-stamp

is accurate to a few milliseconds, and

the accuracy is directly traceable to

UTC(NIST) in real-time. The signed

document can be returned to the sender

electronically and the document can

also be forwarded automatically to any

number of third parties provided only

that the third parties are capable of

receiving electronic mail.

Dated: May 12, 1998.

Robert E. Hebner,

Acting Deputy Director.

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