[Federal Register: September 22, 1998 (Volume 63, Number 183)]
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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: 98-045. Applicant: The University of Texas Health 
Science Center at San Antonio, 7703 Floyd Curl Drive, San Antonio, TX 
78284-7750. Instrument: Electron Microscope, Model EM208S. 
Manufacturer: N.V. Philips, Czech Republic. Intended Use: The 
instrument will be used to study the ultrastructural differences in 
tissues, bacterial growth and response on plastics, cellular response 
to non-biological particulates, the effects of mutations on 
photoreceptor structure and the expression pattern of Rh5 opsin protein 
in rhabdomeres of R-8 cells employing fly retinas. Application accepted 
by Commissioner of Customs: September 2, 1998.
    Docket Number: 98-046. Applicant: University of Minnesota, 
Biomedical Engineering Institute, Box 297 Mayo, 420 Delaware Street SE, 
Minneapolis, MN 55455. Instrument: (2) Bioelectric Impedance 
Tomographs, Models APT/EIT and Mk3a EIT/APT. Manufacturer: University 
of Sheffield, United Kingdom. Intended Use: The instruments will be 
used to produce real time dynamic images of cardiac blood volume 
changes and to characterize the condition of different tissues such as 
the lung. Experiments will be conducted on subjects with cardiac 
problems, in heart failure and with peripheral vascular disease using 
the data to develop and evaluate simpler instruments using only four 
electrodes to obtain similar information. Application accepted by 
Commissioner of Customs: September 2, 1998.
Gerald A. Zerdy,
Program Manager, Statutory Import Programs Staff.
[FR Doc. 98-25311 Filed 9-21-98; 8:45 am]
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