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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: 95–114R. Applicant:

Research Triangle Institute, 3040

Cornwallis Road, Research Triangle, NC

27709. Instrument: (2) ICP Mass

Spectrometers, Model PlasmaQuad 2.

Manufacturer: Fisons Instruments, Inc,

United Kingdom. Intended Use: Original

notice of this resubmitted application

was published in the Federal Register of

December 14, 1995.

Docket Number: 96–043. Applicant:

The University of Chicago, 5841 S.

Maryland Avenue, Chicago, IL 60637.

Instrument: Autosampler, Model A200S.

Manufacturer: Finnigan Corp., Germany.

Intended Use: The instrument will be

installed on an existing gas

chromatograph/mass spectrometer for

the analysis of biochemical products for

human nutrition research. These

biochemicals will be obtained from

humans to trace the metabolism of

nutrients in the human body in studies

with the objectives of understanding the

biochemical mechanisms of

nutritionally related disease.

Application Accepted by Commissioner

of Customs: April 19, 1996.

Docket Number: 96–044. Applicant:

University of California, Los Angeles,

Plasma Physics Laboratory, 405 Hilgard

Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90095–1547.

Instrument: Ti:Sapphire Laser.

Manufacturer: MBP Technologies, Inc.,

Canada. Intended Use: The instrument

will be used as the illuminator of a lidar

system principally to range off the Ca+,

Fe, N2+, N2* layers in the ionosphere.

The phenomena studied are changes in

the Ca+, Fe, N2+, N2* densities in the

ionosphere due to auroral conditions

and changes in these densities. In

addition, the instrument will be used for

educational purposes in graduate level

independent research courses.

Application Accepted by Commissioner

of Customs: April 19, 1996.

Docket Number: 96–045. Applicant:

Monell Chemical Senses Center, 3500

Market Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104–

3308. Instrument: Xenon Flashlamp

System, Model XF–10. Manufacturer:

Hi-Tech Scientific, United Kingdom.

Intended Use: The instrument will be

used in electrophysiological studies of

signal transduction in vertebrate

olfactory receptor neurons to

characterize the molecular mechanisms

by which odorant molecules

differentially activate olfactory receptor

neurons. Application Accepted by

Commissioner of Customs: April 19,

1996.

Docket Number: 96–046. Applicant:

Smithsonian Institution, National

Museum of Natural History,

Washington, DC 20560. Instrument:

Electron Microprobe, Model JXA–

8900R. Manufacturer: JEOL, Japan.

Intended Use: The instrument will be

used for studies of the chemical

composition, elemental distribution of

geological materials and various

museum objects. Experiments will

consist of focussing on a high voltage

electron beam on a solid sample

(usually a polished grain mount or thin

section), generating characteristic xrays, and measuring these x-rays

quantitatively with wavelength and

energy dispersive spectrometers.

Application Accepted by Commissioner

of Customs: April 30, 1996.

Docket Number: 96–047. Applicant:

University of Wisconsin-Madison,

Integrated Microscopy Resource, 1525

Linden Drive, Madison, WI 53706.

Instrument: Electron Microscope, Model

EM 912 Omega. Manufacturer: LEO

Electron Microscopy, Germany.

Intended Use: The instrument will be

used to study a variety of biological

specimens to determine the detailed

structural consequences to a particular

tissue of a specific experimental

manipulation. The instrument will also

be used to determine the elemental

composition of a biological specimen as

well as to provide images of its

ultrastructure. Application Accepted by

Commissioner of Customs: May 2, 1996.

Frank W. Creel,

Director, Statutory Import Programs Staff.

[FR Doc. 96–13970 Filed 6–3–96; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P

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 StoppedFlow 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]

BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P

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: 96–033. Applicant:

University of Southern California,

Department of Neurobiology, 3614 Watt

Way, Los Angeles, CA 90089–2520.

Instrument: Xenon Flashlamp System,

Model XF–10. Manufacturer: Hi-Tech

Scientific, United Kingdom. Intended

Use: The instrument will be used to

rapidly photolyze CA2∂ cage

compounds in a biophysical study of

the action of intracellular CA2∂ on

voltage-activated CA2∂ channels. The

CA2∂ currents activated by

depolarization will be monitored during

and after the flashes to determine the

kinetics of the blocking mechanism.

Photolysis of diazo-4 will produce rapid

(<1 ms) reductions in the concentrations

of CA2∂, so that the kinetics of recovery

of channel function can be determined.

Application Accepted by Commissioner

of Customs: March 13, 1996.

Docket Number: 96–034. Applicant:

National Institutes of Health, 6120

Executive Boulevard, Bethesda, MD

20892–7260. Instrument: Electron

Microscope, Model JEM–1010.

Manufacturer: JEOL Ltd, Japan.

Intended Use: The instrument will be

used for investigations of autoimmune

diseases and ocular complications of

diabetes from control, experimental

animal tissues and diseased human

tissues (mainly ocular) with the

objectives of development of improved

diagnosis and treatment of human

ocular diseases. Application Accepted

by Commissioner of Customs: March 13,

1996.

Docket Number: 96–035. Applicant:

State University of New York,

Department of Physics, 1400

Washington Avenue, Albany, NY 12222.

Instrument: Electron Microscope, Model

JEM–2010F. Manufacturer: JEOL Ltd.,

Japan. Intended Use: The instrument

will be used to study the microstructure

of semiconductors, metals, ceramics,

polymers and superconductors.

Experiments will be conducted on the

following: (1) Long-range order and

defects in II–VI and III–V semiconductor

alloys, (2) process-induced defects in

metals, semiconductors and insulators,

(3) plasma etching induced surface

defects, (4) ion beam induced surface

defects, (5) chemical vapor deposited

metal, semiconductor, and insulator

thin films, and (6) structure of polymer

thin films. In general, the objective of

these microscopic investigations is to

understand the structure-properties

correlation and the effects of materials

processing. In addition, the instrument

will be used for educational purposes in

the course Electron Microscopy, PHY

784. Application Accepted by

Commissioner of Customs: March 14,

1996.

Docket Number: 96–036. Applicant:

Lehigh University, Chemistry

Department, 7 Asa Drive, Bethlehem,

PA 18015. Instrument: Automatic

Sample Manipulator. Manufacturer:

Scienta Instruments, AB, Sweden.

Intended Use: The instrument will be

used to study a wide category of single

crystal and thin film materials which

include metal single crystals such as Pd