[Federal Register Volume 72, Number 241 (Monday, December 17, 2007)]
[Notices]
[Page 71360]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E7-24278]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration


Application for Duty-Free Entry of Scientific Instrument

    Pursuant to Section 6(c) of the Educational, Scientific andCultural 
Materials Importation Act of 1966 (Pub. L. 89-651, asamended by Pub. L. 
106-36; 80 Stat. 897; 15 CFR part 301), weinvite comments on the 
question of whether instruments ofequivalent scientific value, for the 
purposes for which theinstruments shown below are intended to be used, 
are beingmanufactured in the United States.
    Comments must comply with 15 CFR 301.5(a)(3) and (4) of 
theregulations and be filed within 20 days with the Statutory 
ImportPrograms Staff, U.S. Department of Commerce, Room 2104, 14th and 
Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, D.C. 20230. Applications may be 
examined between 8:30 A.M. and 5:00 P.M. in Room 2104, at the above 
address.
    Docket Number: 07-070. Applicant: State University of New York at 
Binghamton, 4400 Vestal Parkway East, Binghamton, NY 13902. Instrument: 
Scanning Acoustic Microscope. Manufacturer: Klaus Pintsch, Inc., 
Germany. Intended Use: The instrument is intended to be used as a 
research tool for professors and graduate student level researchers. 
The research is to advance the science and engineering behind modern 
electronics packaging practices and to develop new packaging paradigms. 
Research is underway in all areas of packaging, solders, board and 
package construction, chip joining, roll to roll manufacturing and even 
fabricating active devices on flexible substrates. The instrument 
provides a nondestructive means to see into packages and examine the 
bonding layers and interfaces. Having a spatial resolution of .5 micron 
or less is a critical parameter because it is one of the factors that 
determines the minimum feature size that can be detected and imaged. 
Application accepted by Commissioner of Customs: November 7, 2007.

    Dated: December 7, 2007.
Faye Robinson,
Director, Statutory Import Programs Staff, Import Administration.
[FR Doc. E7-24278 Filed 12-14-07; 8:45 am]
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