[Federal Register Volume 74, Number 216 (Tuesday, November 10, 2009)]
[Notices]
[Page 58002]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E9-27067]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration


Application(s) 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 postmarked on or before November 30, 2009. Address 
written comments to Statutory Import Programs Staff, Room 3720, 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 in Room 3720.
    Docket Number: 09-059. Applicant: Fermi Research Alliance LLC-Fermi 
National Accelerator Laboratory, Kirk Road & Wilson Street, P.O. Box 
500, Batavia, IL 60510. Instrument: Wavelength Shifting Fiber. 
Manufacturer: Kuraray Co., Ltd.; Japan. Intended Use: This instrument 
will be used to observe the transmutation of muon neutrinos to electron 
neutrinos as they travel from their production point through the earth 
to a 20 kiloton detector. The instrument allows the light generated by 
neutrino interactions in the experiment's 18 kilotons of liquid 
scintillator to be captured, wavelength shifted and transmitted to 
photo-detectors. The fibers must be .7mm in diameter and 32 meters in 
length. Further, the light generated in the fiber must not suffer 
unacceptable attenuation in traveling down 16-20 m of the WLS fiber. As 
such, a pertinent characteristic of this instrument is that it have an 
attenuation length of >20m. Justification for Duty-Free Entry: There 
are instruments of the same general category being manufactured within 
the United States, but they could not be utilized for the purposes 
described above. Application accepted by Commissioner of Customs: 
October 9, 2009.
    Docket Number: 09-063. Applicant: Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 
S. Cass Ave., Lemont, IL 60439. Instrument: CEOS Spherical Aberration 
Corrector. Manufacturer: CEOS Corrected Electron Optical Systems, GmbH; 
Germany. Intended Use: This instrument will be installed on a 
transmission electron microscope and used for the study of nanoscale 
magnetic and ferroelectric materials. The aberration corrector greatly 
enhances the spatial resolution with which the experiments described 
above can be carried out. All experiments will be carried out in 
Lorentz mode, and will include imaging and electron diffraction 
combined with certain in-situ techniques. A pertinent characteristic of 
this instrument is that it must be capable of compensating completing 
the spherical aberration of the low field objective lens on the 2100F 
TEM to which it will be attached. The spherical aberration coefficient 
of this lens is 200 mm. In addition the CEOS aberration corrector can 
compensate this value of spherical aberration while only increasing the 
chromatic aberration by approximately 20%. Justification for Duty-Free 
Entry: There are no instruments of the same general category being 
manufactured within the United States. Application accepted by 
Commissioner of Customs: October 21, 2009.

    Dated: November 3, 2009.
Christopher Cassel,
Acting Director, IA Subsidies Enforcement Office.
[FR Doc. E9-27067 Filed 11-9-09; 8:45 am]
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