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, 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: 96-071. Applicant: University of California, Los

Alamos National Laboratory, P.O. Box 990, Los Alamos, NM 87545.

Instrument: ICP Mass Spectrometer, Model PlasmaQuad. Manufacturer:

Fisons Instruments, United Kingdom. Intended Use: The instrument will

be used to study the transport of ultra low level contaminants in the

environment, and trace composition of high purity materials, soils,

waters, aerosols in air and biological tissues. Application accepted by

Commissioner of Customs: July 5, 1996.

Docket Number: 96-072. Applicant: Penn State University, 118

Research Building West, University Park, PA 16802. Instrument: Nano

Indentor System, Model UMIS 2001. Manufacturer: CISRO, Australia.

Intended Use: The instrument will be used to study interfacial

phenomena in engineering materials and the information gathered will be

used in mathematical models and will be applied to the design of

superior alloys. It is planned to study the mechanical properties of

materials as a function of precise location within the microstructure.

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

the courses Esci 414M, Esci 497D, Esci 475, Esci 410H. Application

accepted by Commissioner of Customs: July 5, 1996.

Docket Number: 96-073. Applicant: University of California,

Accounting Office, 400 University Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720. Instrument:

High Pressure Freezing Machine, Model HPM 010. Manufacturer: Bal-Tec,

Inc., Liechtenstein. Intended Use: The instrument will be used to

freeze a wide variety of cells and tissues, including Drosophila

embryos and Arabidopsis plant tissues. In addition, the instrument will

be used in electron microscopy courses that teach all the techniques,

including rapid freezing, needed to prepare samples and examine them in

the electron microscope. Application accepted by Commissioner of

Customs: July 11, 1996.

Docket Number: 96-074. Applicant: The Association of Universities

for Research in Astronomy, Inc., 1625 Massachusetts Avenue, NW,

Washington, DC 20036. Instrument: 8M Optical Telescope Primary Mirror.

Manufacturer: REOSC Optique, France. Intended Use: The instrument will

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used with a telescope which is used by the international astronomical

community to advance basic research and scientific opportunities

involving star birth, origins of heavy elements, galaxy formation, the

early universe, etc. Application accepted by Commissioner of Customs:

July 12, 1996.

Docket Number: 96-075. Applicant: University of Illinois at Urbana-

Champaign, Purchasing Division, 506 South Wright Street, 207 Henry

Administration Building, Urbana, IL 61801. Instrument: Eye Tracking

System, Model EYELINK. Manufacturer: SR Research Ltd., Canada. Intended

Use: The instrument will be used to study various aspects of human eye

movements while performing various visual performance tasks including

flight instrument panel usage. Other experiments will involve looking

at the effects of aging on eye movement for visual perception.

Application accepted by Commissioner of Customs: July 15, 1996.

Docket Number: 96-076. Applicant: University of Illinois at Urbana-

Champaign, Purchasing Division, 506 South Wright Street, 207 Henry

Administration Building, Urbana, IL 61801. Instrument: Eye Tracking

System, Model EYELINK. Manufacturer: SR Research Ltd., Canada. Intended

Use: The instrument will be used to measure eye-gaze positions and

detect small saccades (quick, high velocity eye movements) during the

visual perception of natural speech in real time as an observer moves

or talks. Application accepted by Commissioner of Customs: July 15,

1996.

Docket Number: 96-077. Applicant: University of Illinois at Urbana-

Champaign, Purchasing Division, 506 South Wright Street, 207 Henry

Administration Building, Urbana, IL 61801. Instrument: Eye Tracking

System, Model EYELINK. Manufacturer: SR Research Ltd., Canada. Intended

Use: The instrument will be used to study eye movements of people as

they read and look at pictures and to examine the eye movements of

people who are seeking information in a 3-D virtual reality

environment. Application accepted by Commissioner of Customs: July 15,

1996.

Frank W. Creel,

Director, Statutory Import Programs Staff.

[FR Doc. 96-20503 Filed 8-9-96; 8:45 am]

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