[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 40 (Tuesday, March 1, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Pages 11200-11202]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-4517]
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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 March 21, 2011. 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: 10-034. Applicant: University of Colorado, 12801 E.
17th Ave., RC1 South, Rm 10101, Box 6511, Mailstop 8101, Aurora, CO
80045. Instrument: Singer MSM System 300TSA. Manufacturer: Singer
Instrument Co. Ltd., United Kingdom. Intended Use: The instrument will
be used to manipulate yeast cells and spores for genetic analysis and
construction of strains with particular mutations, pedigree analysis,
cell and zygote isolation and cell cycle and cell aging studies. The
instrument consists of a micromanipulator device attached to a
microscope with a computerized stage that allows the user to keep track
of the position. It also has a CCD camera video monitor that reduces
the eye strain caused by prolonged peering through microscope
objectives. The components of this instrument are specifically designed
for work with yeast cells. This instrument is unique because it has a
motorized stage, which can be programmed to automatically move to
predetermined positions, and the joystick electronic. Justification for
Duty-Free Entry: There are no instruments of the same general category
being manufactured in the United States. Application accepted by
Commissioner of Customs: January 12, 2011.
Docket Number: 10-077. Applicant: University of Chicago LLC,
Operators of Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 South Cass Ave., Lemont,
IL 60439. Instrument: Batch Furnace. Manufacturer: NGK Insulators Ltd.,
Japan. Intended Use: The instrument will be used in the synthesis of
cathode materials for lithium ion batteries. In particular, the
instrument will be applied during the last step of the synthesis--the
calcination of the cathode material. The techniques used in
calcinations are very dependent on the calcination furnace. This
instrument's furnace allows for heating in oxygen flow. The uniformity
of heating and oxygen flow is critical to obtain the cathode material
because the temperature, together with the oxygen flow, ensures the
removal of aqueous residues on the material. The material must be free
of water because lithium and water can react and have fatal
consequences. This batch furnace includes high distribution of the
sample (multiple trays), which allows for faster drying and greater
uniformity than a
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conventional furnace. This batch furnace also has an oxygen control
system that has a 10kg batch size. Justification for Duty-Free Entry:
There are no instruments of the same general category being
manufactured in the United States. Application accepted by Commissioner
of Customs: October 14, 2010.
Docket Number: 11-001. Applicant: Michigan State University, 2555
Engineering Building, Department of Mechanical Engineering, East
Lansing, MI 48824-1226. Instrument: Diode Pumped High Speed Nd: YAG
laser system. Manufacturer: Edgewave GmbH, Germany. Intended Use: The
instrument will be used as a diagnostics equipment to study high
temperature combustion occurring in a rotary type engine called a
``wave disk engine.'' The laser will be used to pump a dye laser to
generate ultra-violet light which can be used to track chemical species
during combustion. The main diagnostics technique will be planar laser
fluorescence (PLIF) imaging where the laser light is used to excite
target gas species, which can then be imaged using an intensified CCD
camera. The main feature of the laser, which is particularly suited for
the necessary application, is the beam profile (M\2\<2) and energy
stability over lengthy operation times, which is critical when
quantifying combustion species using PLIF over different operation
modes. This is the only laser that can do sub 10 ns pulses with all the
different specifications. Justification for Duty-Free Entry: There are
no instruments of the same general category being manufactured in the
United States. Application accepted by Commissioner of Customs:
December 2, 2010.
Docket Number: 11-009. Applicant: UChicago Argonne LLC, 9700 South
Cass Ave., Lemont, IL 60439-4873. Instrument: Electrode Coater.
Manufacturer: A-Pro Co., Ltd, South Korea. Intended Use: The instrument
will be used to aid the development of novel lithium-ion battery
materials. The experiments to be conducted with this instrument involve
making electrodes for lithium-ion cells with varying amounts and types
of active materials in the electrodes and electrolytes. The cells are
then subjected to electrochemical performance testing to determine the
influence of the active materials under test. The objective is to make
lithium-ion cells in a rigid cylindrical (18650) format and compare the
results against lithium-ion cells made in a flexible (pouch) format.
Key to this research is the ability to make high quality electrodes
that can be used in either the 18650 cell or pouch cells. These
electrodes are made with an electrode coating machine that needs to be
semi-automated and suitable for a laboratory environment, and specially
tailored for lithium-ion electrodes. Justification for Duty-Free Entry:
There are no instruments of the same general category being
manufactured in the United States. Application accepted by Commissioner
of Customs: January 24, 2011.
Docket Number: 11-010. Applicant: University of Wisconsin--Madison
Materials Science Center, 1509 University Avenue Madison, WI 53706.
Instrument: Vitrobot Mark IV. Manufacturer: FEI Company, the
Netherlands. Intended Use: The instrument will be used to directly
obtain real-space images of native surfactant nanostrutctures in
aqueous solutions. Typical materials include samples of a poly(vinyl-
alcohol)-derived block copolymer surfactant in aqueous solution, beta-
peptide nanorods, and highly ordered lyotropic liquid crystalline
aggregates. The experiments to be conducted are to make various
combinations of the basic molecules in aqueous solution, and vitrify
the samples so they can be placed in an electron microscope to study
how the mixtures choose to self-assemble. The specific features that
make this instrument unique include the folllowing: instrumental
parameters must be computer controlled and enable storing of parameter
protocols, including humidity, blotting time and pressure, and
equilibration time; mitigation of errors must be derived from the
handling of TEM grids including loading, application of sample,
plunging, and transfer to storage by automating some of these tasks;
and sample blotting must be done automatically with user controlled
programmable blot times and pressures. Justification for Duty-Free
Entry: There are no instruments of the same general category being
manufactured in the United States. Application accepted by Commissioner
of Customs: January 21, 2011.
Docket Number: 11-011. Applicant: National Superconducting
Cyclotron Laboratory (NSCL) at Michigan State University, 1 Cyclotron
Laboratory South Shaw Lane East Lansing, MI 48824-1321. Instrument:
Differential Plunger Device. Manufacturer: Institut fur Kernphysik--
Universitat zu koln (Cologne Univ.), Germany. Intended Use: The
instrument will be used to measure lifetimes of bound and unbound
states in rare isotopes with rare isotope beams. Collective motions of
nuclei and nuclear reactions will be studied using rare isotope beams.
Rare isotopes will be produced using nuclear reactions of stable
isotopes accelerated by the existing coupled cyclotron facility. The
instrument is specific to the research in level lifetime measurements
of rare isotopes. Justification for Duty-Free Entry: There are no
instruments of the same general category being manufactured in the
United States. Application accepted by Commissioner of Customs: January
25, 2011.
Docket Number: 11-014. Applicant: Purdue University, Herrick
Laboratories, 140 S. Martin Jischke Drive, West Lafayette, IN 47907.
Instrument: Vibration Test System--Shaker in Trunion with Matching
Amplifier and Cooling Blower. Manufacturer: TIRA, Germany. Intended
Use: The instrument will be used to look at the dynamic response of
flexible structures. It is a general purpose electrodynamic vibration
exciter that will facilitate projects involving phenomenon such as
near-resonant linear and nonlinear behaviors, structural health
monitoring, vibration amplification and attenuation, and energy
harvesting. Features of the instrument include its arbitrary excitation
angle, large frequency, force, displacement range and spectral output
purity. This instrument was unique in that it included the ability to
rotate to varying degrees. Justification for Duty-Free Entry: There are
no instruments of the same general category being manufactured in the
United States. Application accepted by Commissioner of Customs: January
7, 2011.
Docket Number: 11-017. Applicant: UChicago Argonne, LLC, 9700 S.
Cass Ave., Lemont, IL 60439. Instrument: Electron Guns for Caribu EBIS
Charge Breeder. Manufacturer: Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics,
Russia. Intended Use: The instrument will be used to study and optimize
parameters of the Electron Beam Ion Source (EBIS) charge breeder for
effective further acceleration of rare isotope ion beams by the Argonne
Tandem Linear Accelerator System (ATLAS). The experiments conducted
will include off-line optimization of EBIS charge breeder efficiency by
optimization of ion beam injection and extraction optics. The main
requirement to the EBIS charge breeder is its high efficiency and long
maintenance free operational period. Justification for Duty-Free Entry:
There are no instruments of the same general category being
manufactured in the United States. Application accepted by Commissioner
of Customs: February 2, 2011.
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February 23, 2011.
Gregory Campbell,
Acting Director, IA Subsidies Enforcement Office.
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