Applications, hearings, determinations, etc.: University of— Colorado, et al.,

[Federal Register: December 24, 1998 (Volume 63, Number 247)]

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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 filedwithin 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 Room 4211, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution Avenue, NW, Washington, DC.

Docket Number: 98-064. Applicant: University of Colorado, P.O. Box 173364, Denver, CO 80217. Instrument: Ammonia Flux Analyzer, Model AMANDA-100. Manufacturer: ECN Fuels, The Netherlands. Intended Use: The instrument is intended to be used for the study of ammonia exchange fluxes and the comparison of deciduous forest exchange with coniferous forest exchange. Application accepted by Commissioner of Customs: November 30, 1998.

Docket Numbers: 98-065 and 98-066. Applicant: Montana State University, Physics Department, EPS Building, Bozeman, MT 59717-3840. Instrument: (2) Optical Helium Cryostats. Manufacturer: Institute of Physics, Ukraine, CIS. Intended Use: These instruments are both replacements for an optical helium cryostat previously entered free of duty to be used to perform both spectroscopic and holographic experiments and various combinations thereof. These experiments will involve the study of (1) crystalline and polymeric dye-doped materials which show complicated photochemical transformation behavior

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at low temperatures and (2) the dependence of these processes on temperature and on the illumination conditions. Applications accepted by Commissioner of Customs: November 30, 1998. Frank W. Creel, Director, Statutory Import Programs Staff.

[FR Doc. 98-34158Filed12-23-98; 8:45 am]

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