[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 108 (Tuesday, June 4, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 28175-28176]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-13968]



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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, 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: 95-085R. Applicant: University of Wisconsin--Eau 
Claire, Eau Claire, WI 54702. Instrument: Absorbance and Fluorescence 
Stopped-Flow Spectrophotometer, Model SX.17MV. Manufacturer: Applied 
Photophysics, Ltd., United Kingdom. Intended Use: Original notice of 
this resubmitted application was published in the Federal Register of 
September 29, 1995. Docket Number: 95-093R. Applicant: Florida 
International University, University Park, Miami, FL 33199. Instrument: 
Stopped-Flow System. Manufacturer: Applied Photophysics, United 
Kingdom. Intended Use: Original notice of this resubmitted application 
was published in the Federal Register of November 14, 1995.
    Docket Number: 95-097R. Applicant: Johns Hopkins University, 3400 
N. Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21218. Instrument: Stopped-Flow 
Spectrophotometer, Model SX.17MV. Manufacturer: Applied Photophysics, 
Ltd., United Kingdom. Intended Use: Original notice of this resubmitted 
application was published in the Federal Register of November 14, 1995.
    Docket Number: 96-025. Applicant: The Pennsylvania State 
University, The Applied Research Laboratory, P O Box 30 (Atherton St.), 
State College, PA 16804-0030. Instrument: Mach-Zehnder Interferometer, 
Model OP35-I/O. Manufacturer: UltraOptec Inc, Canada. Intended Use: The 
instrument will be used for studies of bulk solids, thin films and 
material gradients in experiments which involve noncontact elastic 
property determination, dispersion measurements, vibrational mode 
measurements, crack detection, and 3-D ultrasonic field profiling. In 
addition, the instrument will be used for educational purposes in the 
courses E.Mch. 521 Stress Waves in Solids and E.Mch. 440/Mtsc. 
Nondestructive Evaluation of Flaws. Application Accepted by 
Commissioner of Customs: March 1, 1996.
    Docket Number: 96-026. Applicant: Bates College, Lewiston, ME 
04240. Instrument: Rapid Kinetics Accessory, Model SFA-20. 
Manufacturer: Hi-Tech Scientific, United Kingdom. Intended Use: The 
instrument will be used for educational purposes in the course 
Chemistry 203 - Physical Chemistry Laboratory involving the study of 
fast reaction kinetics. Application Accepted by Commissioner of 
Customs: March 6, 1996.

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    Docket Number: 96-027. Applicant: Belmont University, Biology 
Department, 1900 Belmont Boulevard, Nashville, TN 37212-3757. 
Instrument: Electron Microscope, Model EM208. Manufacturer: Philips, 
Czechoslovakia. Intended Use: The instrument will be used primarily for 
educational purposes in the course BIO 401, Electron Microscopy in 
which students will: (1) Fix, embed, section, and stain plant and 
animal tissues and single-cell organisms, (2) learn the proper 
operation of a transmission electron microscope, (3) learn how to take 
photographs of the sectioned tissues, (4) study the ultrastructure of 
the cells/tissues that have been photographed, and (5) properly mount 
and label the photographs. Application accepted by Commissioner of 
Customs: March 7, 1996.
    Docket Number: 96-028. Applicant: Florida International University, 
SERP, University Park, Miami, FL 33199. Instrument: (2) Mass 
Spectrometers, Model Delta C. Manufacturer: Finnigan MAT, Germany. 
Intended Use: The instruments will be used in a variety of basic 
research projects, including studies of food webs in the Everglades and 
associated coastal systems, studies of plant uptake of C and N in south 
Florida wetlands and coral reefs, and studies of microbial processes 
such as respiration and nitrification. In addition, the instrument will 
be used in support of an annual workshop course with the objective of 
stimulating use of stable isotope tracer technologies by faculty and 
students in their environmental research. Application Accepted by 
Commissioner of Customs: March 11, 1996.
    Docket Number: 96-029. Applicant: University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 
52242. Instrument: EPR Spectrometer, Model EMX 6/1. Manufacturer: 
Bruker Instruments, Germany. Intended Use: The instrument will be used 
to study environmental catalysts which provide catalytic solutions to 
environmental problems. The research will focus on applications of EPR 
to transition metal exchanged zeolites and will yield structural 
information about the active site of the catalyst. Application Accepted 
by Commissioner of Customs: March 11, 1996.
    Docket Number: 96-030. Applicant: University of South Alabama, 
Department of Pathology, 2451 Fillingim Street, Mobile, AL 36617. 
Instrument: Electron Microscope, Model CM100. Manufacturer: N. V. 
Philips, The Netherlands. Intended Use: The instrument will be used for 
studies of human and animal tissues that include categorization of 
neoplasms, storage disease and other disease processes, and 
ultrastructure of normal tissues. In addition, the instrument will be 
used for educational purposes in the courses PAT 211 - core pathology 
course and PAT 416 - diagnostic electron microscopy. Application 
Accepted by Commissioner of Customs: March 12, 1996.
    Docket Number: 96-032. Applicant: University of California, Santa 
Barbara, Department of Chemistry, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9510. 
Instrument: Stopped-Flow Spectrophotometer, Model SX.18MV. 
Manufacturer: Applied Photophysics, United Kingdom. Intended Use: The 
instrument will be used to carry out stopped-flow kinetics experiments 
at multiple wavelengths in order to characterize the rates of rapid 
thermal reactions in solution as well as the spectra of reactive 
intermediates. The instrumentation will complement research into 
various problems of solution phase kinetics under investigation. 
Application Accepted by Commissioner of Customs: March 12, 1996.
Frank W. Creel,
Director, Statutory Import Programs Staff.
[FR Doc. 96-13968 Filed 6-3-96; 8:45 am]
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