Applications for Duty-Free Entry of Scientific Instruments, 43125-43126 [05-14731]

Download as PDF Federal Register / Vol. 70, No. 142 / Tuesday, July 26, 2005 / Notices these allegations are supported by accurate and adequate evidence and meet the statutory requirements for initiation. See Initiation Checklist at Att. 2. Initiation of Antidumping Investigation Based upon the examination of the petition on metal calendar slides from Japan and other information reasonably available to the Department, the Department finds that the petition meets the requirements of section 732 of the Act. Therefore, we are initiating an antidumping duty investigation to determine whether imports of metal calendar slides from Japan are being, or are likely to be, sold in the United States at less than fair value. Unless postponed, we will make our preliminary determination no later than 140 days after the date of this initiation. Distribution of Copies of the Petition In accordance with section 732(b)(3)(A) of the Act, a copy of the public version of the petition has been provided to the representatives of the Government of Japan. We will attempt to provide a copy of the public version of the petition to the producers named in the petition. International Trade Commission Notification We have notified the ITC of our initiation, as required by section 732(d) of the Act. Preliminary Determination by the International Trade Commission The ITC will preliminarily determine, no later than August 15, 2005, whether there is a reasonable indication that imports of metal calendar slides are causing material injury, or threatening to cause material injury, to a U.S. industry. A negative ITC determination will result in the investigation being terminated; otherwise, this investigation will proceed according to statutory and regulatory time limits. This notice is issued and published pursuant to section 777(i) of the Act. Dated: July 19, 2005. Joseph A. Spetrini, Acting Assistant Secretary for Import Administration. [FR Doc. 05–14728 Filed 7–25–05; 8:45 am] Billing Code: 3510–DS–S VerDate jul<14>2003 23:45 Jul 25, 2005 Jkt 205001 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 Suite 4100W, U.S. Department of Commerce, Franklin Court Building, 1099 14th Street, NW, Washington, D.C. Docket Number: 05–024. Applicant: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Plasma Science and Fusion Center, 190 Albany Street, Cambridge, MA 02139. Instrument: Diagnostic Neutral Beam Injector (Hydrogen). Manufacturer: Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics, Russia. Intended Use: The instrument is intended to be used to inject a multi– ampere collimated beam of high– velocity ( near 1%) neutral hydrogen atoms (or deuterium or helium) into a tokomak plasma. Interactions between the beam atoms and the plasma will generate characteristic spectral emission lines from which crucial information about the hot plasma core can be extracted and studied including motional Stark effect, plasma ion temperature and flow velocity, beam emission spectroscopy and confinement and transport of fast particles in the tokamak plasma. It will also be used for education and research of graduate students and guest scientists from other plasma research facilities. Application accepted by Commissioner of Customs: June 23, 2005. Docket Number: 05–025. Applicant: The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 150 Albany Street, Cambridge, MA 02139. Instrument: Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Magnet, Model JMTC-600/140. Manufacturer: Jastec, Japan. Intended Use: The instrument is intended to be used to construct a persistent mode 600MHz, 125 mm room temperature bore LTS high–resolution NMR spectrometer by combining the foreign NMR magnet with a 1.76 T HTS insert built by the PO 00000 Frm 00013 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 43125 applicant. The resulting high homogeneity NMR spectrometer will be used to study a number of materials, such as nucleic acid molecules, helical peptides, bacteriorhodopsin and phenomena, such as frequency– selective heteronuclear dephasing and polarization and determination of structure and dynamics under physiological conditions. It will also be used for undergraduate, graduate and postdoctoraleducation and research. Application accepted by Commissioner of Customs: June 23, 2005. Docket Number: 05–026. Applicant: Cornell University, Baker Lab, Ithaca, NY 14853–1301. Instrument: Horizontal Bounce Monochromater. Manufacturer: Oxford–Danfysik, England. Intended Use: The instrument is intended to be used to determine the molecular structures of macro–molecules of importance in the life sciences, particularly in the composition of the human genome and metabolic processes. Materials will include proteins, viruses, enzymes, and other related entities. X–ray crystallographic techniques will be used through studies of the scattering of monoenergetic x– rays from single crystals of these materials utilizing the intense beams of x–rays provided by the Advanced Photon Source located at the Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory. The objective is to understand more fully how various metabolic and physiological systems function. Application accepted by Commissioner of Customs: July 28, 2005. Docket Number: 05–029. Applicant: University of Illinois at Chicago, Department of Physics (m/c 273), 845 West Taylor Street (Room 2236), Chicago, Il 60607–7059. Instrument: Excimer Laser and Preamplifier. Manufacturer: Laser–Laboratorium, Gottingen, Germany. Intended Use: The instrument is intended to be used to study nonlinear optical phenomena and x–ray amplification in gases, solids, atomic clusters and plasmas. Measured quantities of x–rays and their spectral properties will be examined for an understanding of new physics associated with coherent x–ray production which will serve as a preamplifier in an ultraviolet laser system. Application accepted by Commissioner of Customs: July 7, 2005. Docket Number: 05–030. Applicant: National Animal Disease Center, U.S. Department of Agriculture, 2300 Dayton Avenue, Ames, IA, 50010. Instrument: Electron Microscope, Model Technai G2 12 TWIN/BioTWIN. Manufacturer: FEI Company, Czech Republic. Intended Use: The instrument is intended to be E:\FR\FM\26JYN1.SGM 26JYN1 43126 Federal Register / Vol. 70, No. 142 / Tuesday, July 26, 2005 / Notices used for high resolution and high contrast imaging of thin-sectioned tissues of animals of major economic importance to U.S. agriculture. Basic and applied research on selected diseases of importance to the U.S. livestock and poultry industries will be conducted to: 1. Reduce economic losses from animal disease for the livestock and poultry industries and the associated rural agricultural communities. 2. Reduce or eliminate pre–harvest contamination/infection of animals with food–borne human pathogens. 3. Prevent suffering and death caused by diseases. Application accepted by Commissioner of Customs: July 6, 2005. Docket Number: 05–031. Applicant: University of Illinois, Department of Crop Sciences, 384A Edward R. Madigan Lab, 1201 West Gregory Drive, Urbana, IL . Instrument: Qarray2 Microarraying System. Manufacturer: Genetix, Ltd., United Kingdom. Intended Use: The instrument is intended to be used in genomics research to ‘‘print’’ thousands of DNA specimens representing laboratory– produced soybean genes onto glass slides in a process known as microarray. The glass slide microarrays produced with the Qarray2 instrument will then be exposed to tissue extracts and used to determine how and when the genes are active or ‘‘expressed’’ in the plant, providing information on plant growth, disease resistance and production of nutritionally significant compounds. The instrument will also be used for instruction in several lab courses. Application accepted by Commissioner of Customs: July 8, 2005. Docket Number: 05–020. Applicant: University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093–0332. Instrument: Electron Microscope, Model Technai G2 Sphera. Manufacturer: FEI Company, The Netherlands. Intended Use: See notice at 70 FR 36117, June 22, 2005. Order Date: December 9, 2004. Docket Number: 05–021. Applicant: University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093–0332. Instrument: Electron Microscope, Model Technai G2 Polara. Manufacturer: FEI Company, The Netherlands. Intended Use: See notice at 70 FR 36117, June 22, 2005. Order Date: December 9, 2004. Comments: None received. Decision: Approved. No instrument of equivalent scientific value to the foreign instrument, for such purposes as these instruments are intended to be used, was being manufactured in the United States at the time the instruments were ordered. Reasons: Each foreign instrument is a conventional transmission electron microscope (CTEM) and is intended for research or scientific educational uses requiring a CTEM. We know of no CTEM, or any other instrument suited to these purposes, which was being manufactured in the United States either at the time of order of each instrument OR at the time of receipt of application by U.S. Customs and Border Protection. Gerald A. Zerdy, Program Manager Statutory Import Programs Staff. [FR Doc. 05–14731 Filed 7–25–05; 8:45 am] DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE BILLING CODE 3510–DS–S National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Fisheries of the Caribbean, Gulf of Mexico, and South Atlantic; South Atlantic Snapper Grouper Regulatory Amendment International Trade Administration University of California, San Diego, et al., Notice of Consolidated Decision on Applications for Duty–Free Entry of Electron Microscopes This is a decision consolidated 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). Related records can be viewed between 8:30 A.M. and 5:00 P.M. in Suite 4100W, Franklin Court Building, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1099 14th Street, NW, Washington, D.C. 23:45 Jul 25, 2005 BILLING CODE 3510–DS–S [I.D. 071905C] DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE VerDate jul<14>2003 Gerald A. Zerdy, Program Manager Statutory Import Programs Staff. [FR Doc. 05–14730 Filed 7–25–05; 8:45 am] Jkt 205001 National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Commerce. ACTION: Notice; intent to prepare a draft environmental impact statement (DEIS); supplement. AGENCY: SUMMARY: NMFS and the South Atlantic Fishery Management Council (Council) are evaluating the environmental impacts of a range of management actions for red porgy, black sea bass, vermilion snapper, snowy grouper, and PO 00000 Frm 00014 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 golden tilefish in a DEIS. These management actions are being developed in a regulatory amendment to the Fishery Management Plan for the Snapper Grouper Fishery of the South Atlantic Region (FMP). This notice is intended to supplement notices published in January 2002 and in September 2003, announcing the preparation of DEISs for FMP Amendments 13 and 13B, respectively. DATES: Written comments on the scope of the DEIS will be accepted through August 25, 2005. ADDRESSES: Comments should be sent to Jack McGovern, NMFS Southeast Region, 263 13th Avenue South, St. Petersburg, FL 33701, phone: 727–824– 5305; fax: 727–824–5308; e-mail: John.McGovern@noaa.gov. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Kim Iverson, Public Information Officer; toll free 1–866–SAFMC–10 or 843–571– 4366; kim.iverson@safmc.net. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The snapper grouper fishery operating in the South Atlantic exclusive economic zone is managed under the FMP. Following Council preparation, this FMP was approved and implemented by NMFS in March 1983, under the authority of the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act (Magnuson-Stevens Act). The Council began developing FMP Amendment 13 in 2001 to address multiple Magnuson-Stevens Act requirements, as well as the scheduled sunset of regulations protecting the Oculina Experimental Closed Area, and other administrative issues. The Notice of Intent (NOI) for the DEIS associated with FMP Amendment 13 was published in the Federal Register on January 31, 2002 (67 FR 4696). A subsequent notice announcing the division of actions in FMP Amendment 13 into FMP Amendments 13A and 13B was published on September 12, 2003 (68 FR 53706). FMP Amendment 13A contained a single action to extend the regulations in the Oculina Experimental Closed Area, and was supported by an Environmental Assessment. The remaining actions in FMP Amendment 13 were transferred to FMP Amendment 13B, for which the Council continued to prepare a DEIS. Stock assessments have been completed for red porgy, black sea bass, vermilion snapper, golden tilefish, and snowy grouper through the Southeast Data, Assessment, and Review process. The assessments revealed that: all the stocks, except red porgy, are subjected to overfishing; all the stocks, except for golden tilefish and vermilion snapper, are overfished (the biomass level of E:\FR\FM\26JYN1.SGM 26JYN1

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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 Suite 
4100W, U.S. Department of Commerce, Franklin Court Building, 1099 14th 
Street, NW, Washington, D.C.
    Docket Number: 05-024. Applicant: Massachusetts Institute of 
Technology, Plasma Science and Fusion Center, 190 Albany Street, 
Cambridge, MA 02139. Instrument: Diagnostic Neutral Beam Injector 
(Hydrogen). Manufacturer: Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics, Russia. 
Intended Use: The instrument is intended to be used to inject a multi-
ampere collimated beam of high-velocity ( near 1%) neutral hydrogen 
atoms (or deuterium or helium) into a tokomak plasma. Interactions 
between the beam atoms and the plasma will generate characteristic 
spectral emission lines from which crucial information about the hot 
plasma core can be extracted and studied including motional Stark 
effect, plasma ion temperature and flow velocity, beam emission 
spectroscopy and confinement and transport of fast particles in the 
tokamak plasma. It will also be used for education and research of 
graduate students and guest scientists from other plasma research 
facilities. Application accepted by Commissioner of Customs: June 23, 
2005.
    Docket Number: 05-025. Applicant: The Massachusetts Institute of 
Technology, 150 Albany Street, Cambridge, MA 02139. Instrument: Nuclear 
Magnetic Resonance Magnet, Model JMTC-600/140. Manufacturer: Jastec, 
Japan. Intended Use: The instrument is intended to be used to construct 
a persistent mode 600MHz, 125 mm room temperature bore LTS high-
resolution NMR spectrometer by combining the foreign NMR magnet with a 
1.76 T HTS insert built by the applicant. The resulting high 
homogeneity NMR spectrometer will be used to study a number of 
materials, such as nucleic acid molecules, helical peptides, 
bacteriorhodopsin and phenomena, such as frequency-selective 
heteronuclear dephasing and polarization and determination of structure 
and dynamics under physiological conditions. It will also be used for 
undergraduate, graduate and postdoctoraleducation and research. 
Application accepted by Commissioner of Customs: June 23, 2005.
    Docket Number: 05-026. Applicant: Cornell University, Baker Lab, 
Ithaca, NY 14853-1301. Instrument: Horizontal Bounce Monochromater. 
Manufacturer: Oxford-Danfysik, England. Intended Use: The instrument is 
intended to be used to determine the molecular structures of macro-
molecules of importance in the life sciences, particularly in the 
composition of the human genome and metabolic processes. Materials will 
include proteins, viruses, enzymes, and other related entities. X-ray 
crystallographic techniques will be used through studies of the 
scattering of monoenergetic x-rays from single crystals of these 
materials utilizing the intense beams of x-rays provided by the 
Advanced Photon Source located at the Department of Energy's Argonne 
National Laboratory. The objective is to understand more fully how 
various metabolic and physiological systems function. Application 
accepted by Commissioner of Customs: July 28, 2005.
    Docket Number: 05-029. Applicant: University of Illinois at 
Chicago, Department of Physics (m/c 273), 845 West Taylor Street (Room 
2236), Chicago, Il 60607-7059. Instrument: Excimer Laser and 
Preamplifier. Manufacturer: Laser-Laboratorium, Gottingen, Germany. 
Intended Use: The instrument is intended to be used to study nonlinear 
optical phenomena and x-ray amplification in gases, solids, atomic 
clusters and plasmas. Measured quantities of x-rays and their spectral 
properties will be examined for an understanding of new physics 
associated with coherent x-ray production which will serve as a 
preamplifier in an ultraviolet laser system. Application accepted by 
Commissioner of Customs: July 7, 2005.
    Docket Number: 05-030. Applicant: National Animal Disease Center, 
U.S. Department of Agriculture, 2300 Dayton Avenue, Ames, IA, 50010. 
Instrument: Electron Microscope, Model Technai G[bds2] 12 TWIN/BioTWIN. 
Manufacturer: FEI Company, Czech Republic. Intended Use: The instrument 
is intended to be

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used for high resolution and high contrast imaging of thin-sectioned 
tissues of animals of major economic importance to U.S. agriculture. 
Basic and applied research on selected diseases of importance to the 
U.S. livestock and poultry industries will be conducted to:
    1. Reduce economic losses from animal disease for the livestock and 
poultry industries and the associated rural agricultural communities.
    2. Reduce or eliminate pre-harvest contamination/infection of 
animals with food-borne human pathogens.
    3. Prevent suffering and death caused by diseases. Application 
accepted by Commissioner of Customs: July 6, 2005.
    Docket Number: 05-031. Applicant: University of Illinois, 
Department of Crop Sciences, 384A Edward R. Madigan Lab, 1201 West 
Gregory Drive, Urbana, IL . Instrument: Qarray2 Microarraying System. 
Manufacturer: Genetix, Ltd., United Kingdom. Intended Use: The 
instrument is intended to be used in genomics research to ``print'' 
thousands of DNA specimens representing laboratory-produced soybean 
genes onto glass slides in a process known as microarray. The glass 
slide microarrays produced with the Qarray2 instrument will then be 
exposed to tissue extracts and used to determine how and when the genes 
are active or ``expressed'' in the plant, providing information on 
plant growth, disease resistance and production of nutritionally 
significant compounds. The instrument will also be used for instruction 
in several lab courses. Application accepted by Commissioner of 
Customs: July 8, 2005.

Gerald A. Zerdy,
Program Manager Statutory Import Programs Staff.
[FR Doc. 05-14731 Filed 7-25-05; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 3510-DS-S

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