[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 28 (Tuesday, February 11, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 6215-6216]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-3360]
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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: 96-144. Applicant: Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, Department of Chemistry, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Building
18, Room 591, Cambridge, MA 02139. Instrument: Dual Mixing Stopped-Flow
System, Model SF-61. Manufacturer: Hi-Tech Scientific, United Kingdom.
Intended Use: The article is intended to be used to conduct pre-steady-
state kinetic studies of the reaction mechanisms of multicomponent
enzymes and inorganic model compounds under controlled conditions of
temperature, pH ionic strength, solvent composition and oxygen tension.
Application accepted by Commissioner of Customs: December 27, 1996.
Docket Number: 96-145. Applicant: Georgia Institute of Technology,
Georgia Tech Research Institute, 225 North Avenue, Atlanta, GA 30322-
0834. Instrument: Ion-Assisted Deposition System, Model APS 1104.
Manufacturer: Leybold AG. Intended Use: The instrument will be used in
studies of luminescent materials (SrS:Ce,F; SiON; Al2O3;
Indium tin oxide; ZnS:Mn) that will be deposited as very thin films on
substrate materials. The main thrust of the research will be
development of the ion assisted deposition technique to deposit the
above materials in crystalline form at relatively low substrate
temperatures (200-500 deg.C). In addition, the instrument will be used
for educational purposes in graduate level special topic courses in
thin film disposition science offered in the Electrical Engineering,
Physics and Material Science and Engineering Schools. Application
accepted by Commissioner of Customs: December 27, 1996.
Docket Number: 96-146. Applicant: University of California, San
Diego, Scripps Institute of Oceanography, 7835 Trade Street, San Diego,
CA 92121. Instrument: (2) Directional Waverider Buoys. Manufacturer:
Datawell, BV, The Netherlands. Intended Use: The instrument will be
deployed across the continental shelf to monitor and verify wave
evolution modeling efforts. Application accepted by Commissioner of
Customs: December 30, 1996.
Docket Number: 96-147. Applicant: U.S. Geological Survey, Box
25046, MS
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977, Denver Federal Center, Denver, CO 80225. Instrument: Mass
Spectrometer, Model Optima. Manufacturer: Micromass, United Kingdom.
Intended Use: The instrument will be used to study the stable isotope
variations that resulted during the formation and history of rocks,
minerals and gases from a variety of geologic sites and contexts.
Application accepted by Commissioner of Customs: December 30, 1996.
Docket Number: 96-148. Applicant: Woods Hole Oceanographic
Institution, Bell House, MS 39, 221 Oyster Pond Road, Woods Hole, MA
02543-1531. Instrument: Mass Spectrometer, Model MAT ELEMENT.
Manufacturer: Finnigan MAT, Germany. Intended Use: The instrument will
be used for elemental and isotopic analyses of seawater, sediments,
microfossils, plankton, corals and rocks. Applications will range from
the study of natural and artificial radionuclides in the environment,
the marine chemistry of trace metals, ecotoxicology, petrology of
basaltic rocks, paleoceanographic studies, climate change studies, etc.
In addition, the instrument will be used to instruct students in its
use. Application accepted by Commissioner of Customs: December 31,
1996.
Docket Number: 96-149. Applicant: University of Vermont, Department
of Physical Therapy, 305 Rowell Building, Burlington, VT 05405-0068.
Instrument: Motion Analysis System and Telemg System, Model Elite Plus.
Manufacturer: Bioengineering Technology & Systems, Italy. Intended Use:
The instrument will be used for human movement studies focusing on
human gait, posture and balance and upper extremity movement. These
studies are aimed at quantifying and understanding normal and
disordered human movement from neurological, physiologic, biomechanical
and behavioral perspectives. Application accepted by Commissioner of
Customs: December 31, 1996.
Frank W. Creel,
Director, Statutory Import Programs Staff.
[FR Doc. 97-3360 Filed 2-10-97; 8:45 am]
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