Applications for Duty-Free Entry of Scientific Instruments

Document Headings Document headings vary by document type but may contain the following: the agency or agencies that issued and signed a document the number of the CFR title and the number of each part the document amends, proposes to amend, or is directly related to the agency docket number / agency internal file number the RIN which identifies each regulatory action listed in the Unified Agenda of Federal Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions See the Document Drafting Handbook for more details. Department of Commerce International Trade Administration 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 Suite 4100W, U.S. Department of Commerce, Franklin Court Building, 1099 14th Street, NW, Washington, DC. Docket Number: 02-013. Applicant: University of Saskatchewan, 110 Science Place, Saskatoon, SK, Canada, S7N 5C9. Instrument: Photoelectron Emission Microscope, Model PEEM III. Manufacturer: ELMITEC GmbH, Germany. Intended Use: The instrument is intended to be used to study the spatially resolved x-ray absorption spectra for the chemical analysis of complex organic, polymer and environmental materials. Principle experiments to be conducted are: (1) Investigation of protein binding on patterned organic surfaces, (2) tribology—investigation of the anti-wear properties of thin films on metal surfaces, and (3) exploration of the circular dichroism spectroscopy of chiral materials at x-ray wavelengths. …