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Co., Ltd., Japan. Intended Use: See

notice at 63 FR 12452, March 13, 1998.

Reasons: The foreign instrument

provides simulation of fabric wear

conditions using a cantilever method

which calculates the bending movement

over a variable arc of constant curvature.

Advice received from: A domestic

manufacturer of similar equipment and

a university laboratory textile

laboratory, May 8, 1998.

Argonne National Laboratory, a

domestic manufacturer of similar

equipment and a university textile

laboratory 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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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 p.m.

in Room 4211, U.S. Department of

Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution

Avenue, NW, Washington, DC.

Docket Number: 98–026. Applicant:

University of California, Davis, Center

for Neuroscience, 1544 Newton Court,

Davis, CA 95616. Instrument: Optical

Imaging System, Model ORA 2001.

Manufacturer: Optical Imaging, United

Kingdom. Intended Use: The instrument

will be used to study the activity

patterns of neurons in the primary

visual cortex of laboratory animals to

determine how the environment and

patterns of neural activity influence the

development of the brain. In addition,

the instrument will be used for

educational purposes in the research

courses Neurobiology, Physiology and

Behavior 199 and Neuroscience 299.

Application accepted by Commissioner

of Customs: May 8, 1998.

Docket Number: 98–027. Applicant:

Rutgers, The State University of New

Jersey, University Procurement &

Contracting, 56 Bevier Road,

Piscataway, NJ 08854–8010. Instrument:

(10 ea.) Specimen Micromanipulator,

Model A–3–S. Manufacturer: Narishige

Scientific, Japan. Intended Use: The

instrument is intended to be used in

spinal cord injury research assessing a

variety of neuroprotective, regenerative

and remyelinative therapies.

Application accepted by Commissioner

of Customs: May 15, 1998.

Docket Number: 98–028. Applicant:

Cornell University, Cornell Center for

Materials Research, SB56 Bard Hall,

Ithaca, NY 14853–1501. Instrument:

Electron Microprobe, Model JXA–

8900R. Manufacturer: Narishige

Scientific, Japan. Intended Use: The

instrument is intended to be used in

experiments consisting of focusing a

high voltage electron beam on a solid

sample, generating characteristic x-rays

and measuring these x-rays

quantitatively with wavelength and

energy dispersive spectrometers. The

objectives of these investigations are the

quantitative microchemical analysis of

geological, chemical and materials

science samples and qualitative

identification and mapping of elemental

distributions. In addition, the

instrument will be used for training

postdoctoral fellows, graduate and

undergraduate students in the operation

of the instrument through

demonstration and hands-on

instruction. Application accepted by

Commissioner of Customs: May 15,

1998.

Docket Number: 98–029. Applicant:

University of California, San Diego,

Scripps Institute of Oceanography, 7835

Trade Street, San Diego, CA 92121.

Instrument: Wave Measurement

Equipment. Manufacturer: Datawell bv,

The Netherlands. Intended Use: The

instrument is intended to 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:

May 20, 1998.

Frank W. Creel,

Director, Statutory Import Programs Staff.

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[C–560–804]

Notice of Postponement of Time Limit

for Countervailing Duty Investigation:

Extruded Rubber Thread From

Indonesia

AGENCY: International Trade

Administration, Import Administration,

Department of Commerce.

EFFECTIVE DATE: June 10, 1998.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Stephanie Moore or Maria MacKay at

(202) 482–2876, Import Administration,

International Trade Administration,

U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th

Street and Constitution Avenue, N.W.,

Washington, D.C. 20230.

Postponement

On April 28, 1998, the Department of

Commerce (the Department) initiated a

countervailing duty investigation of

extruded rubber thread from Indonesia.

On May 29, 1998, in accordance with

section 351.205(e) of the Department’s

regulations (19 CFR 351.205(e),

published at 62 FR 27295, May 19,

1997), the petitioner made a timely

request that the Department postpone its

preliminary determination. As we find

no compelling reasons to deny this

request, we are postponing the

preliminary determination in this

investigation to no later than August 28,

1998, pursuant to section 703(c)(1)(A) of

the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended.

This notice is published pursuant to

section 703(c)(2) of the Act.

Dated June 2, 1998.

Robert S. LaRussa,

Assistant Secretary for Import

Administration.

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