[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 19 (Monday, January 30, 2006)]
[Notices]
[Pages 4895-4896]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E6-1114]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration


Massachusetts Institute of Technology, et al., Notice of 
Consolidated Decision on Applications, for Duty-Free Entry of 
Scientific Instruments

    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, DC.
    Comments: None received. Decision: Approved. No instrument of 
equivalent scientific value to the foreign instruments described below, 
for such purposes as each is intended to be used, is being manufactured 
in the United States.

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    Docket Number: 05-046. Applicant: Massachusetts Institute of 
technology, Boston, MA. Instrument: High-resolution Superconducting 
Magnet. Manufacturer: Jastec, Japan.Intended Use: See notice at 70 FR 
73991, December 14, 2005. Reasons: The foreign article is a compatible 
ancillary device for a 500 MHz 200 mm room-temperature bore magnetic 
resonance spectrometer under development at MIT. It provides a 
persistent-mode cryocooled MRI magnet that is nominally operated at 4.2 
K, but when not cryocooled, can still operate in persistent mode for up 
to 12 hours as the winding temperature rises from 4.2K to 6.0K. A cold 
body consisting of 65 liters of solidified neon permits the magnet to 
maintain a central field of 11.74 T (500 MHz) for the 12-hour period 
with its cryocooler shut off and thermally disconnected from the cold 
body. When the temperature reaches 6.0K, the system is recyled as the 
cryocooler is turned on and thermally recoupled to the cold body until 
the magnet returns to 4.2K. This magnet was specially designed to 
conform to the applicant's specifications. Two domestic manufacturers 
possibly capable of building the magnet declined to bid.
    Docket Number: 05-054. Applicant: University of Illinois, Champaign 
IL. Instrument: Curved Image Plate Detector. Manufacturer: Technische 
Universitat Darmstadt, Germany. Intended Use: See notice at 70 FR 
77145, December, 29 2005. Reasons: The foreign instrument is a 
compatible ancillary device which is intended to be used to develop a 
fast, high-resolution, x-ray powder diffraction apparatus using a 
beamline facility (Beamline 33-BM) at the Advanced Photon Source of 
Argonne National Laboratory. The detector is capable of detecting and 
storing x-ray intensity information proportionally over a wide 
dynamical range of at least five orders of magnitude with high 
resolution, high sensitivity and low noise (high S/N ratio). Complex 
algorithms are not required to extract data from the x-ray detector. 
Since it is curved, diffracted x-rays are incident normal to it and 
thus do not induce any distortion errors, while retaining the fidelity 
of the diffraction pattern. Intrinsic resolution down to 0.006[ctrcir] 
can translate into accuracy in peak position of <=0.001[ctrcir]. 
Position of the scanner head is provided by an optical tracking system 
with a grid resolution of 20 microm. The detector has an on site 
reader.
    The capabilities of each of the foreign articles described above 
are pertinent to each applicant's intended purpose and we know of no 
domestic instrument or apparatus of equivalent scientific value for the 
intended use of each article.

Gerald A. Zerdy,
Program Manager, Statutory Import Programs Staff.
[FR Doc. E6-1114 Filed 1-27-06; 8:45 am]
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