Application for Duty-Free Entry of Scientific Instrument

[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 66 (Wednesday, April 7, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Page 16913]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-8620]


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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, D.C. 20230. 
Application 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: 99-003. Applicant: Louisiana State University, 
Mechanical Engineering Department, Nicholson Ext., Baton Rouge, LA 
70803. Instrument: Electron Microscope, Model JEM-2010. Manufacturer: 
JEOL Ltd., Japan. Intended Use: The instrument will be used extensively 
in the study of microstructures, surfaces, and the structural and 
compositional characteristics of materials. The research areas of 
interest include but are not limited to the following: (1) fundamental 
issues of stress corrosion cracking phenomena and specifically directed 
toward understanding the nature of the embrittlement mechanism, (2) 
surface modification processes and more specifically with the 
processing-microstructure-property relationship of modified surfaces 
and thin films, (3) exploring the possibility to grow thick amorphous 
alloy layers by solid-state interdiffusion reactions in diffusion 
couples assisted by bombardment of energetic particles (plasma or ion 
beam), (4) understanding how and why solid-state alloying and 
amorphization can be achieved in some binary systems with relatively 
large positive heat of mixing (i.e., systems immiscible in equilibrium) 
and (5) studying the consolidation and properties of nanocrystalline 
metals, oxides and noncomposites. Application accepted by Commissioner 
of Customs: March 19, 1999.
Frank W. Creel,
Director, Statutory Import Programs Staff.
[FR Doc. 99-8620 Filed 4-6-99; 8:45 am]
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