[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 201 (Tuesday, October 18, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Pages 71702-71703]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2016-25173]
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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 November 7, 2016. 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: 15-061. Applicant: Yale School of Medicine, 333
Cedar St., New Haven, CT 06510. Instrument: SuperK Extreme EXR-20 white
light laser. Manufacturer: NKT Photonics, Denmark. Intended Use: The
instrument will be used as an excitation sources for the study of
intracellular processes and structures at super resolution. The
experiments require a high power pulsed excitation source at a
wavelength of 590 nm, and minimal after pulse tail and sub 100 ps pulse
width. 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: July 18, 2016.
Docket Number: 16-002. Applicant: University of Massachusetts
Medical School, 55 Lake Avenue North, Worcester, MA 01655. Instrument:
Electron Microscope. Manufacturer: FEI Company, the Netherlands.
Intended Use: The instrument will be used to understand the three-
dimensional structure of purified proteins and protein complexes at the
atomic level, and how this is related to their function. 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: July 18, 2016.
Docket Number: 16-004. Applicant: Purdue University, 315 N. Grant
St., West Lafayette, IN 47907. Instrument: SGR YAG pulsed laser.
Manufacturer: Beamtech Optronics, Co. LTD, China. Intended Use: The
instrument will be used for pulsed laser annealing and nanostructure
integrated laser shock peening, to improve the microstructure of thin
film for better electrical and optical properties. Requirements for the
experiment include three wave lengths (355nm, 532nm, 1064nm), pulse
energy 2J, flat hat beam, and pulse duration tunable from 10ns to 25ns.
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: July 18, 2016.
Docket Number: 16-005. Applicant: Rutgers University,
Administrative Services Bldg. I, Rm. 300, Plant Funds, 65 Davidson
Road, Piscataway, NJ 08854-8076. Instrument: Electron
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Microscope. Manufacturer: FEI Company, the Netherlands. Intended Use:
The instrument will be used to achieve sub-nanometer resolution
structures of protein complexes, characterize interactions between
various components of protein complexes and understand biological
activities by imaging protein assemblies in cellular or physiologic
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: July 14, 2016.
Docket Number: 16-008. Applicant: California Institute of
Technology, 1200 E. California Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91125. Instrument:
Cryogenic Temperature Scanning Tunneling Microscope System.
Manufacturer: Unisoku Co., LTd., Japan. Intended Use: The instrument
will be used to investigate structural and electrical surface
properties with atomic resolution at cryogenic temperatures (-459
Fahrenheit--0.4 K) and high magnetic fields, at which conditions
materials can exhibit unusual quantum properties such as topological
superconductivity and fractionalization of charge carriers. Experiments
to be conducted with the instrument include mapping of the local
electronic density of states of gated nanostructures by measuring
current--voltage curves at different points, mapping of the electron
spin structure using scanning tips made of magnetic materials, and
probing the size of the energy gap in topological insulators and
topological superconductors. For this type of research an instrument
capable of performing scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) and atomic
force microscopy (AFM) at cryogenic temperatures and high magnetic
fields is essential. 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: July 14, 2016.
Docket Number: 16-010. Applicant: University of California,
Riverside, 900 University Drive, Riverside, CA 92521. Instrument:
Electron Microscope. Manufacturer: FEI Company, the Netherlands.
Intended Use: The instrument will be used teaching and associated
research, including materials science, earth science and life science,
all of which rely on the characterization of morphology and structure
at microscopic down to atomic scale of materials and biological
tissues. 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: July 18, 2016.
Docket Number: 16-011. Applicant: Van Andel Research Institute, 333
Botswick Avenue NE., Grand Rapids, MI 49503. Instrument: Electron
Microscope. Manufacturer: FEI Company, the Netherlands. Intended Use:
The instrument will be used to computationally process images of
protein complexes and apply averaging techniques to 3D models of
isolated cellular components. 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: June
21, 2016.
Docket Number: 16-012. Applicant: Van Andel Research Institute, 333
Botswick Avenue NE., Grand Rapids, MI 49503. Instrument: Electron
Microscope. Manufacturer: FEI, Co., the Netherlands. Intended Use: The
instrument will be used to computationally process images of protein
complexes and apply averaging techniques to 3D models of isolated
cellular components. 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: June 16, 2016.
Docket Number: 16-013. Applicant: Van Andel Research Institute, 333
Botswick Avenue NE., Grand Rapids, MI 49503. Instrument: Electron
Microscope. Manufacturer: FEI Company, Czech Republic. Intended Use:
The instrument will be used to computationally process images of
protein complexes and apply averaging techniques to calculate 3D models
of isolated cellular components. 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:
July 15, 2016.
Docket Number: 16-014. Applicant: Iowa State University, 3616
Administrative Services Bldg., Stange Road, Ames, Iowa 50011-3616.
Instrument: Electron Microscope. Manufacturer: FEI Company, the
Netherlands. Intended Use: The instrument will be used to study atom
arrangement/motion in defects, interface, precipitate and their effect
on property using high-resolution (scanning) electron microscopy,
nanospectroscopy, electron diffraction, electron holography and Lorentz
microscopy. 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: July 14, 2016.
Docket Number: 16-015. Applicant: Yale University, 2 Whitney
Avenue, Suite 540, P.O. Box 208202, New Haven, CT 06520. Instrument:
Electron Microscope. Manufacturer: FEI Company, the Netherlands.
Intended Use: The instrument will be used to obtain atomic-resolution
maps of macromolecular complexes, to obtain three-dimensional tomograms
of cellular contents, and to observe the arrangements of organelles and
macromolecular complexes that participate in cellular processes.
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: July 18, 2016.
Docket Number: 16-016. Applicant: State University of New York at
Stony Brook, Research & Development Campus, Development Drive, Bldg.
17, Stony Brook, NY 117964-6000. Instrument: Cryo-Electron Microscope.
Manufacturer: FEI Company, the Netherlands. Intended Use: The
instrument will be used to image and visualize purified proteins,
nucleic acid-protein complexes, and thin sections of biological
materials such as cells or tissues by cryo-electron microscopy.
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 24, 2016.
Dated: October 11, 2016.
Gregory W. Campbell,
Director of Subsidies Enforcement, Enforcement and Compliance.
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