[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 75 (Wednesday, April 19, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Pages 19571-19572]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-9694]



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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, 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: 95-017. Applicant: USEPA, Central Regional 
Laboratory, 536 S. Clark St., Chicago, IL 60605. Instrument: ICP Mass 
Spectrometer, Model PlasmaQuad. Manufacturer: Fisons Instruments, 
United Kingdom. Intended Use: The instrument will be used to determine 
the low concentrations of metals and other elemental constituents of 
waters, extracts of soils, sludges or sediments and extracts of fish or 
other tissue samples. Application Accepted by Commissioner of Customs: 
March 15, 1995.
    Docket Number: 95-018. Applicant: Florida State University, 
National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, 1800 East Paul Dirac Drive, 
Tallahassee, FL 32306. Instrument: Mass Spectrometer, Model 262. 
Manufacturer: Finnigan MAT, Germany. Intended Use: The instrument will 
be used to determine isotope ratios by thermal ionization mass 
spectrometry. The isotopes of interest (Rb-Sr, Sm-Nd, Lu-Hf, U-Th-Pb) 
form the naturally occurring radioactive background. The studies will 
concentrate on the determination of the isotopic and inferred chemical 
diversity and heterogeneity of different chemical reservoirs of the 
earth. In addition, the instrument will be used for educational 
purposes in the course ``Advanced Topics in Geochemistry.'' Application 
Accepted by Commissioner of Customs: March 16, 1995.
    Docket Number: 95-019. Applicant: Woods Hole Oceanographic 
Institution, Woods Hole, MA 02543. Instrument: Mass Spectrometer, Model 
IMS 1270. Manufacturer: Cameca Geologie, France. Intended Use: The 
instrument will be used for the following research activities:
    A. The early evolution of the earth--determine ages of rocks based 
on the U-Pb decay systems in minerals such as zircon, monzaite, sphene 
and baddelyite.
    B. Upper mantle dynamics--determine trace element abundances in 
minerals and use as a natural tracer for deciphering geologic 
processes.
    C. Crustal processes and evolution--investigations on how 
metamorphic fluids evolved, and how post-orogenic tectonic movements 
operate from the point of view of cooling of metamorphic and granitic 
terranes. [[Page 19572]] 
    D. Environmental changes--investigating changes in biospheric 
environment by determining oxygen and carbon isotopic compositions in 
planktonic foraminifera shells.
    E. Fundamental properties in geochemistry--numerous laboratory 
experiments conducted to determine distributions of trace elements 
between minerals and melts, rates of diffusion of elements in melts and 
minerals, and rates of mantle/melt reactions.
    Application Accepted by Commissioner of Customs: March 16, 1995.
    Docket Number: 95-020. Applicant: Masonic Medical Research Lab., 
2150 Bleecker Street, Utica, NY 13501-1787. Instrument: Xenon Flashlamp 
System, Model XF-10. Manufacturer: Hi-Tech Scientific, United Kingdom. 
Intended Use: The instrument will be used for the study of the ionic 
basis of currents that contribute to arrhythmias in the heart. 
Application Accepted by Commissioner of Customs: March 17, 1995.


Frank W. Creel,
Director, Statutory Import Programs Staff.
[FR Doc. 95-9694 Filed 4-18-95; 8:45 am]
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