[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 113 (Monday, June 13, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Page 34207]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-14576]


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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 July 5, 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: 10-073. Applicant: University of Chicago Argonne, 
LLC, 9700 South Cass Avenue, Argonne, IL 60439. Instrument: Chemical 
Mechanical Polishing (CMP) Tool. Manufacturer: Logitech Ltd., UK. 
Intended Use: The CMP will be installed in the Center for Nanoscale 
Materials for performing lithography and fabricating atomically smooth 
surfaces on various materials, such as ultrananocrystalline diamond and 
gold films. Justification for Duty-Free Entry: Instruments of the same 
general category being manufactured in the United States do not meet 
the technical requirements within the available budget. Application 
accepted by Commissioner of Customs: May 13, 2011.
    Docket Number: 11-013. Applicant: Wichita State University, 1845 
Fairmont Street, Wichita, KS 67260. Instrument: Field emission scanning 
electron microscope. Manufacturer: Carl Zeiss SMT, Germany. Intended 
Use: The instrument will be used to examine the morphology and 
composition of metals, composites and nanocomposites, and for training 
undergraduate and graduate students in optical microscopy. 
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: May 26, 2011.
    Docket Number: 11-029. Applicant: University of California, Santa 
Barbara, CA 93106. Instrument: Josephson Junction Deposition System 
(Electron Beam Evaporation Unit with Load Lock Model MEB 550S). 
Manufacturer: Plassys Bestek SAS, France. Intended Use: The system will 
be incorporated into a superconducting quantum bit device, and will be 
used to deposit and grow Josephson junctions as part of students' 
research requirements in the physics Ph.D program. 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: May 26, 2011.

    Dated: June 7, 2011.
Gregory W. Campbell,
Director, Subsidies Enforcement Office. Office of Policy, Import 
Administration.
[FR Doc. 2011-14576 Filed 6-10-11; 8:45 am]
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