[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 65 (Thursday, April 6, 2017)]
[Notices]
[Pages 16796-16797]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2017-06825]


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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 April 26,

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2017. 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: 16-023. Applicant: Princeton University, 701 
Carnegie Center, Princeton, NJ 08540. Instrument: Electron Microscope. 
Manufacturer: FEI Company, Czech Republic. Intended Use: The instrument 
will be used for room temperature imaging, quantitative chemical 
analysis/mapping, and electron diffraction. 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: November 30, 2016.

    Docket Number: 16-027. Applicant: Yale University, 333 Cedar St., 
New Haven, CT 06510. Instrument: OneFive Laser System Katana-08 HP. 
Manufacturer: Onefive, Switzerland. Intended Use: The instrument will 
be used as a depletion source to saturate STED depletion profile in 
samples containing both endogenously expressed fluorescent proteins as 
well as antibody labeled organic dyes. The experiments require a high 
power pulsed depletion source at a wavelength of 775 nm to saturate the 
depletion profile in STED microscopy to achieve resolution below the 
diffraction limit. The picosecond pulse profile is needed to 
synchronize the depletion pulse with the excitation pulse. Minimal 
after pulse tail and sub 100 ps pulse width are also required. 
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: December 16, 2016.

    Docket Number: 17-001. Applicant: Barnard College, 3009 Broadway, 
New York, NY 10027. Instrument: Positioner for a prototype Schwarzchild 
Couder Telescope (pSCT). Manufacturer: DESY-DeutchesElektronen-
Synchrotron, Germany. Intended Use: The instrument will be used to 
point the pSCT at astrophysical gamma-ray sources to detect and measure 
optical Cherenkov light flashes produced in the Earth's atmosphere by 
very high energy gamma ray photons. The instrument is a unique piece 
constructed as part of a design project called the Cherenkov Telescope 
Array (CTA), which is being developed by the international astronomical 
community. DESY is the only company who builds an instrument of this 
kind. 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 10, 2017.


    Dated: March 31, 2017.
Gregory W. Campbell,
Director of Subsidies Enforcement, Enforcement and Compliance.
[FR Doc. 2017-06825 Filed 4-5-17; 8:45 am]
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