[Federal Register Volume 72, Number 79 (Wednesday, April 25, 2007)]
[Notices]
[Pages 20505-20506]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E7-7928]


-----------------------------------------------------------------------

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, DC 20230. 
Applications may be examined between 8:30 a.m. and 5 p.m. at the U.S. 
Department of Commerce, Room 2104, 14th and Constitution Ave., NW., 
Washington, DC.
    Docket Number: 06-054. Applicant: Purdue University, 465 
Northwestern Ave., West Lafayette, IN 47907-2035. Instrument: DBF Fiber 
Laser System. Manufacturer: Koheras A/S, Denmark. Intended Use: The 
instrument is intended to be used to study and formulate the physical 
description of the fundamental noise properties of optical frequency 
combs and their application to Optical Arbitrary Waveform Generation. 
An ultra-narrow (1 kHz optical linewidth) CW laser is needed to sweep 
the carrier frequency and beat it with a conventional mode-locked laser 
based optical frequency comb. The CW laser also provides a 60 pm fast 
piezo tuning range and 700 pm thermal tuning with 100 mW output power. 
Application accepted by Commissioner of Customs: September 1, 2006.

    Docket Number: 06-059. Applicant: Rutgers University, 3 Rutgers 
Plaza, Brunswick, NJ 08901-8559. Instrument: Micro-dissecting 
Microscope. Manufacturer: Singer Instruments, UK. Intended Use: The 
instrument is intended to be used to identify and categorize genes that 
control DNA replication and repair using a simple model organism known 
as baker's yeast. Strains of yeast-bearing mutations in genes that 
control the repair of damage in DNA and their genetic pathway will be 
studied. The instrument is a motorized micromanipulator specifically 
designed to separate single aspo-spores of yeast. It will also be used 
for student instruction in these areas. Application accepted by 
Commissioner of Customs: October 19, 2006.

    Docket Number: 06-067. Applicant: The University of Illinois, 212 
Tech Plaza, 616 East Green St., Champaign, IL 61820. Instrument: Ti: 
Sapphire Lasers (2), Model TIS-SF-077s. Manufacturer: Tekhnoscan, 
Russia. Intended Use: The lasers are intended to be used to study the 
application of ultra-cold atom gases to quantum simulation. They will 
be used to create an optical lattice, and part of a system for driving 
stimulated Raman transitions which will be integrated into a complex 
experimental apparatus requiring a CW, single-frequency, tunable Ti: 
sapphire ring laser with linewidth < 100 kHz, drift rate < 50 MHz/hour, 
locked to an external reference cavity, and completely reconfigurable 
for phase-locking optics and electronics with low drift rates since 
they will not be locked to a spectroscopic reference. Application 
accepted by Commissioner of Customs: November 20, 2006.

    Docket Number: 07-005. Applicant: Millersville University, Physics 
Department, P.O. Box 1002, Millersville PA 17551. Instrument: HeNe 
Laser Cavity Educational Kit, Model CA-1200. Manufacturer: MICOS GmbH, 
Germany. Intended Use: The instrument is intended to be used in the lab 
portion of a course on optics for instruction on the physical 
principles and the components of a laser. Students will use the kit to 
build a He-Ne Laser themselves and study the role of different optical 
elements in the lasing effect. Lab studies will include intensity 
distribution, Gaussian beam, polarization, divergence, coherence 
monochromatism and other properties of light. Application accepted by 
Commissioner of Customs: January 17, 2007.

    Docket Number: 07-007. Applicant: Illinois Institute of Technology, 
10 W. 33rd St., Room 224, Chicago, IL 60616. Instrument: High 
Temperature Nano Test System. Manufacturer: Micro Materials, Ltd., UK. 
Intended Use: The instrument is intended to be used to assess the 
mechanical properties of Ni-base alloys at elevated temperatures. Nano 
indentation tests will be conducted on the specimens at a range of 
temperatures from room temperature to 750 C to assess the hardness and 
modulus of the Ni-base alloys. These tests will permit evaluation of 
the characteristic mechanical properties of the constituent phases 
present in experimental Ni-base alloys and contribute to the 
development of new high temperature materials. The instrument requires 
a unique, horizontally-designed pendulum indenter to allow testing of 
specimens at temperatures in excess of 750 C. Application accepted by 
Commissioner of Customs: January 23, 2007.

    Docket Number: 07-0011. Applicant: State University of New York, 
Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794. Instrument: Low-level 
Beta Multicounter System. Manufacturer: Riso National Laboratory, 
Denmark. Intended Use: The instrument is intended to be used to measure 
emissions from very small quantities of naturally occurring, dissolved 
radioactive isotopes of thorium and lead in seawater which are attached 
to particulate matter in very small quantities. Samples of the isotopes 
are taken at various depths and serve as tracers of the movement of 
carbon to the deep, an important process that affects the biological 
cycle of the ocean as well as the carbon content of the atmosphere and 
is important for understanding climate change. The instrument will also 
be used for graduate education. This is the only beta detector that 
meets the requirements of five simultaneous measurements with extremely 
low background count rates of 0.2 cpm. It is also capable of field use 
in harsh environments. Application accepted by Commissioner of Customs: 
February 23, 2007.

    Docket Number: 07-012. Applicant: University of Wisconsin, 750 
University Ave., Madison, WI 53706-1490. Instrument: Real-time 3D 
Motion Capture System. Manufacturer: Phoenix

[[Page 20506]]

Technologies, Inc., Canada. Intended Use: The instrument is intended to 
be used to measure limb movements of monkey subjects performing reach-
to-grasp tasks. Electrical signals derived from individual brain cells 
will be correlated with parameters of movement in order to determine 
how information is encoded in the signals that the brain uses to 
communicate with the muscles. This research is relevant to neuro-
prosthetics, spinal chord injury, stroke and motor rehabilitation. The 
dimensions of the testing chamber require that the infra red position 
markers can operate at a minimum distance of 0.6 m. Application 
accepted by Commissioner of Customs: March 5, 2007.

Faye Robinson,
Director, Statutory Import Programs Staff, Import Administration.
 [FR Doc. E7-7928 Filed 4-24-07; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 3510-DS-P