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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 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 Subsections 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, D.C. 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, 
N.W., Washington, D.C.
    Docket Number: 94-075. Applicant: West Virginia University, Physics 
Department, G-30 Hodges Hall, Morgantown, WV 26505-6315. Instrument: 
Atom/Radical Source, Model CARS25. Manufacturer: Oxford Applied 
Research, United Kingdom. Intended Use: The instrument will be used in 
research concerning the formation of point defects during molecular 
beam epitaxy growth and doping of wide band gap semiconductors. 
Application Accepted by Commissioner of Customs: May 27, 1994.
    Docket Number: 94-076. Applicant: The Georgia Institute of 
Technology, 225 North Avenue, NW, Atlanta, GA 30322. Instrument: High-
Shear Mixing Bleach Reactor, Model CRS1015. Manufacturer: CRS Reactor 
Engineering, Sweden. Intended Use: The instrument will be used in a 
study to develop novel bleaching technologies, such as ECF and TCF 
processes, other than traditional chlorine processes. The instrument 
will be used for educational and research purposes mostly by graduate 
students seeking advance degrees. Application Accepted by Commissioner 
of Customs: May 31, 1994.
    Docket Number: 94-077. Applicant: The Ohio State University, 
Aeronautical & Astronautical Research Laboratory, 2300 West Case Road, 
Columbus, OH 43235. Instrument: High Power, High Pressure Arc Discharge 
Plasma Source System. Manufacturer: Institute of Problems of 
Electrophysics, CIS. Intended Use: The instrument will be used for 
research that involves the determination of arc discharge mode, energy 
and power transfer efficiencies, electrode and insulator damage and 
wear. The experiments will be conducted for various gases over a range 
of initial pressures and currents and will involve electrical, pressure 
transducer and optical measurements. In addition, the instrument will 
contribute to educational objectives by providing the basis for student 
thesis research and design projects, and by challenging students with 
problems related to their coursework. Application Accepted by 
Commissioner of Customs: June 3, 1994.
    Docket Number: 94-078. Applicant: University of Pittsburgh, 
Chemistry Department, 350 Thackeray Hall, Pittsburgh, PA 15260. 
Instrument: Mass Spectrometer, Model VG AutoSpec. Manufacturer: Fisons 
Instruments, United Kingdom. Intended Use: The instrument will be used 
to produce mass spectra of a wide variety of unique synthetic products 
and intermediate compounds (natural products, organic substrates for 
enzyme interaction, vitamin derivatives, and novel synthetic products) 
in the support of various research programs. The instrument will also 
be used to investigate the mechanisms of bombardment induced gas-phase 
ion chemistry and will involve the designing of additives to a FAB 
matrix that will induce specific chemical reactions within the mass 
spectrometer. In addition, the instrument will be used for educational 
purposes in the course Chemistry 2700 Graduate Research. Application 
Accepted by Commissioner of Customs: June 3, 1994.
    Docket Number: 94-079. Applicant: Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 
South Cass Avenue, Argonne, IL 60439. Instrument: EPR Spectrometer, 
Model ESP300-E-10-12. Manufacturer: Bruker Instruments, Germany. 
Intended Use: The instrument will be used to study photo-induced charge 
separation in natural photosynthetic and model photosynthetic systems. 
The experiments to be conducted will be both conventional electron 
paramagnetic resonance experiments on stable radicals and time-resolved 
electron paramagnetic resonance. Application Accepted by Commissioner 
of Customs: June 3, 1994.
    Docket Number: 94-080. Applicant: University of California, Los 
Alamos National Laboratory, P.O. Box 990, Los Alamos, NM 87545. 
Instrument: Electron Microscope, Model JEM 2010. Manufacturer: JEOL 
Ltd., Japan. Intended Use: The instrument will be used for the study of 
liquid crystal polymers and thermosets. Experiments will be performed 
on a variety of liquid crystalline materials to investigate the effect 
of different preparation schemes on the structure and the resulting 
properties. Application Accepted by Commissioner of Customs: June 7, 
1994.
Pamela Woods,
Acting Director, Statutory Import Programs Staff.
[FR Doc. 94-16209 Filed 7-1-94; 8:45 am]
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