[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 24 (Wednesday, February 5, 2014)]
[Notices]
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From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
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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 February 25, 2014. 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: 13-052. Applicant: The Association of Universities 
for Research in Astronomy, 950 N. Cherry Ave., Tucson, AZ 85719. 
Instrument: Enclosure control system for the Advanced Technology Solar 
Telescope. Manufacturer: AEC Engineering, part of the IDOM Group, 
Spain. Intended Use: The instrument will be used to understand the 
nature of transient solar events which affect life on Earth by 
employing techniques such as augmenting pointing control of the 
Telescope at the Sun and augmenting control over the thermal 
environment during operational use. During normal sun-tracking 
operations, the Enclosure accessory shall provide complete protection 
of the Telescope (except for the M1 Assembly) from incoming solar 
radiation (insolation), the Enclosure accessory shall provide an 
unobstructed optical path from the Sun to the M1 Assembly when the 
carousel and shutters are in any position within their allowable ranges 
of travel, and the Enclosure accessory skin shall be insulated to the 
extent required to ensure that the interior surface temperature can be 
maintained at +0[deg] F/-3.5[deg] relative to ambient temperature while 
the exterior skin temperature is at ambient minus 7.2[deg] F in all 
operational conditions. 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: January 23, 
2014.
    Docket Number: 13-054. Applicant: Regents of the University of 
Minnesota, School of Physics and Astronomy, 116 Church Street SE., 
Minneapolis, MN 55455-0149. Instrument: Yanus IV Laser Scan Head. 
Manufacturer: Till Photonics, Germany. Intended Use: The instrument 
will be used to study the oligomeric state of EGFP tagged Retenoid X 
Receptor (RXR-EGFP) in the absence and presence of its ligand by PCH 
analysis, as well as follow its binding to DNA and other nuclear 
factors by conventional and scanning fluorescence correlation 
spectroscopy (FCS). The laser beam is continuously scanned in a 
circular fashion, which shows peaks and valleys which add contrast and 
give information about the scan radius, diffusion coefficient and 
particle concentrations that would be absent in conventional FCS. 
Conventional scan heads for laser microscopy have a finite distance 
between their scan axes, which introduces aberrations and vignetting 
into the scan. These distortions in the point spread function prohibit 
the quantitative imaging experiments. The Yanus IV scan head has been 
engineered with an effective zero optical distance between the scan 
axes, which maintains diffraction-limited performance across the entire 
scan field. This is the only instrument with zero effective optical 
distance between the scan axes. 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: 
January 2, 2014.

    Dated: January 28, 2014.
Gregory W. Campbell,
Director of Subsidies Enforcement, Enforcement and Compliance.
[FR Doc. 2014-02465 Filed 2-4-14; 8:45 am]
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