[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 193 (Monday, October 6, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Page 60137]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-23794]


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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 October 27, 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: 14-021. Applicant: Utah State University, 2400 Old 
Main Hill, Logan, Utah 84322-2400. Instrument: Respirometer for 
measuring the oxygen consumption of aquatic animals. Manufacturer: 
Loligo Systems, Denmark. Intended Use: The instrument will be used to 
better understand how the ability of aquatic organisms to obtain oxygen 
under different environmental conditions affects their growth, 
survivorship, distribution, and abundance. The phenomenon being studied 
is the rate of oxygen consumption by aquatic invertebrates, using the 
instrument under different temperatures and pollution concentrations. 
Continuous measurement of metabolic (oxygen consumption) response to 
stress by small aquatic organisms (<10mm in length) requires a flow-
through system with oxygen probes and equipment that can both be 
programmed to precisely increase the temperature of a water bath and 
automatically detect ug level changes in oxygen concentrations, without 
which the research could not be conducted. 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: August 5, 2014.
    Docket Number: 14-023. Applicant: Louisiana State University, 202 
Nicholson Hall, LSU, Baton Rouge, LA 70803. Instrument: Scanning Probe 
Microscope (SPM)--scanning tunneling microscopy. Manufacturer: SPECS 
Surface Nano Analysis, Germany. Intended Use: The instrument will be 
used to elucidate catalytic properties of metal and metal-oxide 
systems, uncovering new schemes by which organic molecules become 
environmentally hazardous upon chemisorption. Scanning tunneling 
microscopy (STM) will be used to probe the nanoscale atomic structure, 
growth, and atomic/molecular dynamics of a variety of systems, 
including metal nanoclusters on oxides and grasphene, metal oxide 
surfaces and metal surfaces. All experiments will be conducted in 
ultra-high vacuum conditions, including in addition the STM, other 
surface sciences probes such as electron-energy loss spectroscopy, x-
ray and UV photoemission spectroscopy. The electronics and STM head 
must provide 60 frames per second scan rate with pixel density of 128 x 
128, the STM head must be mounted on an 8 inch flange with a vertical 
face, the instrument must have the ability to sputter clean the tip 
without removing it from the STM scan head, the tunneling bias voltage 
must be applied to the sample, and the preamp must collect current from 
the tip. 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: August 26, 2014.

    Dated: September 29, 2014.
Gregory W. Campbell,
Director of Subsidies Enforcement, Enforcement and Compliance.
[FR Doc. 2014-23794 Filed 10-3-14; 8:45 am]
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