[Federal Register Volume 72, Number 158 (Thursday, August 16, 2007)]
[Notices]
[Page 46037]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E7-16152]


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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; as amended by Pub. 
L. 106-36; 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 14th and Constitution Ave., NW, Room 2104 
Washington, D.C. 20230. Applications may be examined between 8:30 A.M. 
and 5:00 P.M. in Room 2104, U.S. Department of Commerce.
Docket Number: 07-051. Applicant: Colorado College, Department of 
Physics, 14 E. Cache la Poudre, Colorado Springs, CO 80903 Instrument: 
Low Temperature Ulta-High Vacuum Scanning Tunneling Microscope. 
Manufacturer: Omicron Nanotechnology GmbH, Germany Intended Use: The 
instrument is intended to be used in a collaborative project with NIST 
to develop a Josephson-junction based quantum computer. The instrument 
will provide detailed maps of the electron density of the materials as 
a function of spacial position and energy. Since electrical 
conductivity derives from electron density, the maps will allow study 
of how well electrons are locally conducted through various materials.
The instrument provides: (a) A scanning tunneling microscope mounted 
inside a 4 K liquid helium reservoir (with a 22-hour liquid helium 
refill time); (b) Operation at an equilibrium temperature of 4 K with 
in-situ sample preparation and tip transfer capability); (c) Low drift 
rates of 1 angstrom/hour (d) RMS vibration amplitudes of <0.005 
angstrom in a 300 Hz bandwidth; and (e) Sample registry after 
deposition. Application accepted by Commissioner of Customs: July 31, 
2007.
Docket Number: 07-053. Applicant: University of Kentucky, Dept. Civil 
Engineering, 161 Raymond Building, Lexington, KY 40506 Instrument: Soil 
Stiffness Testing System. Manufacturer: GDS Instruments, Ltd., UK. 
Intended Use: The instrument is intended to be used to measure soil 
stiffness at very small strains in a specially modified automated 
triaxial test apparatus. These measurements are critical to 
understanding and consequently predicting soil behavior for all 
geotechnical systems.
The instrument provides a vertically propagating S-wave transmitter and 
a P-wave receiver along with a vertically propagating P-wave 
transmitter and S-wave receiver and a master signal conditioning unit 
along with GDSBES software to control data acquisition and drive signal 
generation for S and P wave velocity tests as well as a Hall effect 
local strain set (2 axial,1 radial)and mid-plane pore pressure kit. No 
domestic sources making similar devices provide an integrated system of 
this type of testing with the resolution required for advanced 
geotechnical research. Application accepted by Commissioner of Customs: 
August 3, 2007.

Faye Robinson,
Director, Statutory Import Programs Staff, Import Administration.
[FR Doc. E7-16152 Filed 8-15-07; 8:45 am]
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