Applications for Duty-Free Entry of Scientific Instruments

[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 207 (Wednesday, October 27, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Page 57865]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-28060]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration


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: 99-023. Applicant: University of Vermont, Given 
Building, Room E219, Burlington, VT 05405. Instrument: Microforge, 
Model MF-830. Manufacturer: Narishige Scientific Instrument Lab., 
Japan. Intended Use: The instrument is intended to be used for 
polishing glass microelectrodes during studies of the electrical 
properties of Dorsal Root Ganglion and other neuronal and non-neuronal 
tissues. Experiments are designed to characterize the difference 
between the sodium and potassium channel currents among experimental 
and control animals. The objective of the studies is to find a 
correlation between the electrical properties and the properties of the 
inflamed bladder tissue. Application accepted by Commissioner of 
Customs: September 30, 1999.
    Docket Number: 99-024. Applicant: University of Vermont, Given 
Building, Room E219, Burlington, VT 05405. Instrument: Glass 
Microelectrode Puller, Model PP-830. Manufacturer: Narishige Scientific 
Instrument Lab., Japan. Intended Use: The instrument is intended to be 
used to pull glass capillary tubes to a point fine enough to allow one 
to seal a small piece of cell membrane in the resulting microscopic 
opening in studies of the electrical properties of Dorsal Root Ganglion 
and other neuronal and non-neuronal tissues. Experiments are designed 
to characterize the difference between the sodium and potassium channel 
currents among experimental and control animals. The objective of the 
studies is to find a correlation between the electrical properties and 
the properties of the inflamed bladder tissue. Application accepted by 
Commissioner of Customs: September 30, 1999.
Frank W. Creel,
Director, Statutory Import Programs Staff.
[FR Doc. 99-28060 Filed 10-26-99; 8:45 am]
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