[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 8 (Thursday, January 12, 2006)]
[Notices]
[Page 2024]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E6-235]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration


Tufts University, Notice of Decision on Application, for Duty-
Free Entry of Scientific Instrument

    This decision is made 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 p.m. in Suite 4100W, U.S. Department of 
Commerce, Franklin Court Building, 1099 14th Street, NW., Washington, 
DC.
    Docket Number: 05-044. Applicant: Tufts University, Somerville, MA. 
Instrument: Low Temperature Scanning Tunneling Microscope. 
Manufacturer: Omicron Nanotechnology, Germany. Intended Use: See notice 
at 70 FR 61603, October 25, 2005.
    Comments: None received. Decision: Approved. No instrument of 
equivalent scientific value to the foreign instrument, for such 
purposes as it is intended to be used, is being manufactured in the 
United States. Reasons: The foreign instrument provides: stable imaging 
at temperatures down to 4 Kelvin with low thermal drift rates (<1 
angstrom per hour) and low rms vibration amplitudes (< 0.005 angstrom 
in a 300 Hz bandwidth). It also has the capability of depositing 
molecules on the sample in the microscope stage at temperatures down to 
4 Kelvin and tip retraction and return to the same area after 
deposition of molecules. Advice received from: A university research 
laboratory for advanced microstructures and devices (comparable case). 
It knows of no domestic instrument or apparatus of equivalent 
scientific value to the foreign instrument for the applicant's intended 
use.
    We know of no other instrument or apparatus of equivalent 
scientific value to the foreign instrument which is being manufactured 
in the United States.

Gerald A. Zerdy,
Program Manager, Statutory Import Programs Staff.
[FR Doc. E6-235 Filed 1-11-06; 8:45 am]
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