Application for Duty-Free Entry of Scientific Instrument

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

Application for Duty-Free Entry of Scientific Instrument

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 an

instrument of equivalent scientific value, for the purposes for which

the instrument shown below is intended to be used, is 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.

Application may be examined between 8:30 a.m. and 5 p.m. in Room 4211,

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

Washington, DC.

Docket Number: 98-031. Applicant: University of California, San

Diego, Department of Chemistry, 9500 Gilman Drive, MS-0358, La Jolla,

CA 92093-0358. Instrument: Electron Beam Evaporation Source.

Manufacturer: Oxford Applied Research, United Kingdom. Intended Use:

The instrument will be used to study the atomic structure and magnetic

properties of nanograin particles of permalloy (NiFe) in a silver

matrix and in ultra high vacuum. These particles will be capped with Ta

for studies in air. Application accepted by Commissioner of Customs:

June 11, 1998.

Frank W. Creel,

Director, Statutory Import Programs Staff.

[FR Doc. 98-17445 Filed 6-30-98; 8:45 am]

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