Applications for Duty-Free Entry of Scientific Instruments

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: 94-017. Applicant: University of Maryland, Physics

Department, College Park, MD 20742-4111. Instrument: Thin Film

Deposition System. Manufacturer: Precision Research Instruments,

Canada. Intended Use: The instrument will be used for studies of a

class of low transition temperature superconductors, mainly transition

metal elemental superconductors such as Nb and binary superconductors

such as Mo-Ge and Nb-N. These studies will include investigating the

electrodynamics of proximity coupled superconductors and the properties

of arrays of coupled Josephson junctions. In addition, the instrument

will be used extensively in four courses offered by the physics

department. Application Accepted by Commissioner of Customs: February

16, 1994.

Docket Number: 94-021. Applicant: University of Colorado at

Boulder, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Campus Box 215,

Boulder, CO 80309-0215. Instrument: Cryostream Nitrogen Gas Cooler.

Manufacturer: Oxford Cryosystems, United Kingdom. Intended Use: The

instrument will be used for studies of crystals of protein molecules or

RNA molecules in order to determine the structures of molecules at

atomic resolution. The resulting structural information will be

important in protein engineering and understanding how RNA molecules

fold up into conformations that are biologically active. In addition,

the instrument will be used for educational purposes in several

chemistry courses. Application Accepted by Commissioner of Customs:

February 17, 1994.

Docket Number: 94-024. Applicant: Lehigh University, 111 Research

Drive, Bethlehem, PA 18015. Instrument: Measurement and Analysis of

Surface Interactions and Forces. Manufacturer: Anutech Pty Ltd.,

Australia. Intended Use: The instrument will be used to measure: (1)

The forces of interaction between polymer-bearing surfaces as a

function of their distance of separation (on the order of molecular

dimensions) and (2) the friction and viscosity between these surfaces.

In addition, the instrument will be used for educational purposes in

the graduate level course Ch.E. (Chem., Mat) 497 - Polymer Interfaces

which includes 4-6 weeks of laboratory training for instrumental

analysis of polymer surfaces and interfaces. Application Accepted by

Commissioner of Customs: February 24, 1994.

Docket Number: 94-025. Applicant: Princeton University, Geological

& Geophysical Sciences, Guyot Hall, Princeton, NJ 08544. Instrument:

Calorimetric System, Model STA409C. Manufacturer: Netzsch.-Geratebau

GmbH, Germany. Intended Use: The instrument will be used to conduct

experiments involving quantitative scanning calorimetry and TGA/DTA of

silicates, oxides, minerals and ceramics with the objective of

understanding fundamental thermodynamic properties. Application

Accepted by Commissioner of Customs: February 24, 1994.

Docket Number: 94-026. Applicant: University of North Carolina at

Chapel Hill, Department of Chemistry, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3290.

Instrument: High Resolution Sector Mass Spectrometer, Model MAT 900.

Manufacturer: Finnigan MAT, Germany. Intended Use: The instrument will

be used in the development of new and improved analytical mass

spectrometry methods in research which involves biological molecules

such as peptides, carbohydrates and oligonucleotides, synthetic

polymers, and general organic molecules. In addition, phenomena

associated with tandem mass spectrometry will be investigated.

Application Accepted by Commissioner of Customs: February 24, 1994.

Docket Number: 94-029. Applicant: University of Florida, Department

of Chemistry, PO Box 117200, Gainesville, FL 32611-7200. Instrument:

Excimer Laser Pumped Dye Laser System, Model LPX 240i. Manufacturer:

Lambda Physik, Germany. Intended Use: The instrument will be used as an

excitation source for ionization of elemental species which have been

vaporized in an electrothermal furnace and atomized (i.e., converted to

free atoms) in an air-acetylene flame. The research will focus on the

development of the method with emphasis on the analysis of trace

elements in small biological samples (body fluids and tissues).

Application Accepted by Commissioner of Customs:. February 28, 1994.

Pamela Woods,

Acting Director, Statutory Import Programs Staff.

[FR Doc. 94-6841 Filed 3-22-94; 8:45 am]

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