[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 119 (Thursday, June 20, 2013)]
[Notices]
[Pages 37206-37207]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2013-14773]


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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 10, 2013. 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 5:00 p.m. at the U.S. Department of 
Commerce in Room 3720.
    Docket Number: 13-017. Applicant: Ohio State University, 2041 
College Road, Columbus, OH 43210. Instrument: Cryo-SEM System with 
Aquilo Preparation Chamber. Manufacturer:

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Quorum Technologies, United Kingdom. Intended Use: The instrument will 
be fitted to an existing dual beam focused ion beam (FIB) instrument in 
order to provide a new capability for 3-D imaging and analysis of 
polymeric materials and biomaterials at cryogenic temperatures below -
109 degrees Celsius. The required performance characteristics for this 
instrument are a highly stable, thermally isolated nitrogen gas-cooled 
stage which attaches to the SEM stage and is capable of reaching a 
temperature range of + 100 to -190 degrees Celsius, a separately cooled 
cold trap with independent temperature control capable of reaching 
temperatures below -190 degrees Celsius, a cryo-preparation, cryo-
transfer chamber that is directly attached to the SEM, but with the 
turbomolecular vacuum pumping and advanced gas cooling system mounted 
remotely, as well as a high vacuum system consisting of a remotely 
positioned 70L/s turbomolecular pumping system capable of achieving a 
vacuum of 10-6 mbar or better in the directly attached 
cryopreparation, cryo-transfer chamber. The instrument will be used for 
cryo-imaging that will provide new insights in the study of 
biocompatibility and failure of orthopaedic implants, and also the 
evaluation of new materials and implant surfaces for tissue engineering 
applications. The cryo-preparation, cryo-transfer and cryo-imaging 
capabilities will enable minimally invasive approaches to be used to 
investigate structures and interfaces in their near-native vitreous 
state. Justification for Duty-Free Entry: There are no instruments of 
the same general category manufactured in the United States. 
Application accepted by Commissioner of Customs: April 3, 2013.
    Docket Number: 13-019. Applicant: California State University 
Northridge, 18111 Nordhoff Street, Northridge, CA 91330. Instrument: 
Ultrahigh Vacuum Low Temperature Scanning Tunneling Microscope. 
Manufacturer: Unisoku Co., Ltd., Japan. Intended Use: The instrument 
will be used to study the electronic and spin-related phenomena (Kondo 
effect, spin flip, spin injection, etc.) in low dimensional materials 
including grapheme (one atomic layer of carbon atoms), magnetic 
materials (transition metals iron, cobalt, nickel and corresponding 
phthalocyanine molecules), and topological insulators. The techniques 
to be implemented include depositing magnetic atoms or molecules on 
grapheme and measuring scanning tunneling spectroscopy of these 
magnetic impurities on grapheme, growing grapheme on ferromagnetic 
materials (cobalt, iron) and measuring the spin-polarization of 
grapheme induced by the ferromagnetic materials, as well measuring the 
scanning tunneling spectroscopy on topological insulators. The 
capabilities required for these experiments that this instrument 
fulfills include a high magnetic field of 8 Tesla, and measurements at 
low temperature (<5 Kelvin). Justification for Duty-Free Entry: There 
are no instruments of the same general category manufactured in the 
United States. Application accepted by Commissioner of Customs: May 1, 
2013.
    Docket Number: 13-021. Applicant: University of Massachusetts 
Amherst, 120 Governors Drive, Amherst, MA 01003. Instrument: Electron 
Microscope. Manufacturer: JEOL Ltd., Japan. Intended Use: The 
instrument will be used to identify structure/properties relationships 
of polymer based solar cells or for the structural analysis of polymer/
nanoparticle hybrid materials for the development of high-density 
storage devices, as well as to study the self-assembly of bio-polymer 
systems for drug-delivery system development. Justification for Duty-
Free Entry: There are no instruments of the same general category 
manufactured in the United States. Application accepted by Commissioner 
of Customs: April 3, 2013.
    Docket Number: 13-020. Applicant: University of Texas at Austin, 
2109 San Jacinto Blvd.--D3700, Austin, TX 78712-1415. Instrument: V-
Gait Dual Belt Instrumented Treadmill. Manufacturer: Motek Medial, the 
Netherlands. Intended Use: The instrument will be used to study how 
both healthy humans and humans with various walking impairments (old 
age, stroke, etc.) maintain balance and prevent falls while they walk, 
and how to develop rehabilitation interventions that can help reduce 
risks of falling in these individuals. The experiments will include 
asking participants to walk on the treadmill while they are subjected 
to a variety of different types of perturbations and manipulations. The 
instrument's software will control and coordinate both the treadmill 
and the virtual reality environment to impose the perturbations and/or 
other walking conditions that are specified. Existing devices will be 
integrated into the instrument's virtual reality system to 
synchronously record information regarding how participants move and 
their muscle activations in response to various manipulations of their 
walking behavior. The primary individual components of this instrument 
that are required for these experiments are the split-belt perturbation 
treadmill, the virtual reality system, and the data recording systems, 
as well as the ``D-Flow'' system which allows each component to 
communicate with one another. Justification for Duty-Free Entry: There 
are no instruments of the same general category manufactured in the 
United States. Application accepted by Commissioner of Customs: May 1, 
2013.
    Docket Number: 13-023. Applicant: Max Planck Florida Institute, One 
Max Planck Way, Jupiter, FL 33458. Instrument: Quanta 250 FEG SEM 
(D8421). Manufacturer: FEI Company, Czech Republic. Intended Use: The 
instrument will be used for the fabrication of atomic force microscope 
cantilevers and electron beam deposition. The cantilevers are made from 
silicon or silicon nitride, with the radius of the tip curvature on the 
order of nanometers. Electron-beam deposition is a process of 
decomposing gaseous molecules by electron beam leading to deposition of 
non-volatile fragments onto a nearby substrate. The electron beam is 
usually provided by a scanning electron microscope that results in high 
spatial accuracy (less than one nanometer), and the possibility to 
produce free-standing, three-dimensional structures. The cantilevers 
are observed by the scanning electron microscope. The chamber of the 
scanning electron microscope is filled with carbon gases. Then the 
electron from the scanning microscope focuses on the tip of cantilevers 
to deposit an amorphous carbon. The instrument needs to work with high 
beam parking precision (~1 nanometer) in the environment in which the 
material deposition is produced in relatively low vacuum. Justification 
for Duty-Free Entry: There are no instruments of the same general 
category manufactured in the United States. Application accepted by 
Commissioner of Customs: May 16, 2013.

    Dated: June 14, 2013.
Gregory W. Campbell,
Director of Subsidies Enforcement, Import Administration.
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