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 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 5:00 P.M. in Room

4211, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution Avenue,

NW., Washington, DC.

Docket Number: 96-067. Applicant: Woods Hole Oceanographic

Institution, 266 Woods Hole Road, Woods Hole, MA 02543. Instrument: 5

Window Beta Detector with Anticoincidence, Model GM-25-5. Manufacturer:

Risoe National Laboratory, Denmark. Intended Use: The instrument will

be used for sampling the ocean at different depths to estimate carbon

fluxes out of the upper water. This is a number that needs to be

plugged into ocean/atmosphere models to estimate such things as global

warming. Application accepted by Commissioner of Customs: June 19,

1996.

Docket Number: 96-068. Applicant: The University of Vermont,

Burlington, VT 05405. Instrument: Multisample Inlet Manifold for Mass

Spectrometer. Manufacturer: Pro-Vac Services, United Kingdom. Intended

Use: The instrument is an accessory used to automate sample analysis

performed with a mass spectrometer which will increase the daily sample

processing. The mass spectrometer is used to determine stable isotope

abundances of the elements C, O, N and S in natural materials for a

variety of environmental, biological and ecological research projects.

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

course Environmental Isotope Geochemistry. Application accepted by

Commissioner of Customs: June 20, 1996.

Docket Number: 96-069. Applicant: Arizona State University,

Department of Zoology, Box 871501, Tempe, AZ 85287-1501. Instrument:

Image Analysis System with Macro Accessory Package. Manufacturer:

Imaging Research Inc., Canada. Intended Use: The instrument will be

used for in situ hybridization studies and in vitro receptor

autoradiography. The neurochemical data will be analyzed at various

levels of neuroanatomical detail. These experiments will be conducted

to determine how stress alters the major neurotransmitter systems in

the hippocampus in the hope of understanding how stress alters the

functional status of the hippocampus. Application accepted by

Commissioner of Customs: June 26, 1996.

Docket Number: 96-070. Applicant: Massachusetts Institute of

Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139. Instrument:

Compact Geotechnical Centrifuge. Manufacturer: Chiker Technologies,

United Kingdom. Intended Use: The instrument will be used to conduct

experimental investigations of problems involving soil and groundwater

behavior. Experiments will be conducted to examine how contaminants

move through soil bodies under a variety of different conditions and

under the influence of different body forces. In addition, the

experiments will be conducted to investigate the performance of

different in situ remediation technologies, such as ``pump-and-treat,''

air-sparging and surfactant flushing, that are available for cleaning

up contaminated soil sites. The instrument will also be used in the

course Introduction to Geotechnical Engineering that teaches the

fundamentals of soil behavior and soil-structure interaction.

Application accepted by Commissioner of Customs: June 26, 1996.

Frank W. Creel,

Director Statutory Import Programs Staff.

[FR Doc. 96-19473 Filed 7-30-96; 8:45 am]

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