[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 228 (Wednesday, November 25, 2020)]
[Notices]
[Pages 75302-75303]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-26020]


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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 December 15, 2020. Address 
written comments to Statutory Import Programs Staff, Room 3720, U.S. 
Department of Commerce, Washington, DC 20230. Please also email an 
electronic copy of any written comments to [email protected]. 
Arrangements to review any applications can also be made with 
correspondence through that email address.

    Docket Number: 20-008. Applicant: Rice University, 6100 Main 
Street, Houston, TX 77005. Instrument: Signal Acquisition ASCI. 
Manufacturer: LiMicro, China. Intended Use: According to the applicant, 
the instrument will be used to study and investigate in-vivo large-
scale, high density, long-term neutral recording to integrate the 
signal acquisition instrument that it plans to purchase with its custom 
developed ultra-flexible nano electronic thread (NET) microelectrodes 
as a neural recording system to monitor chronic neural signals in 
freely behaving animals. The applicant also plans to investigate the 
formation of connections between various brain regions and the 
evolution of the neural connections over extended periods. This large-
scale, high-density, long-term neural recording study has the potential 
to help understand the fundamental mechanisms of neural

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circuitry and explore treatments for neurological 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: August 12, 2020.

    Docket Number: 20-009. Applicant: University of Chicago, Chemistry 
E005A, 929 E 57th Street (loading docket behind 5741 S Drexel Avenue), 
Chicago, IL 60637. Instrument: White Dwarf Optimal Parametric Amplifier 
System (OPCPA). Manufacturer: Class 5 Photonics, GmbH, Germany. 
Intended Use: According to the applicant, the instrument will be used 
to study and determine how the local electronic structure of 
nanostructured materials is related to their morphology, and directly 
measure the electronic transitions at buried interfaces in materials, 
controlling anisotropic charge transport via photoinduced strain 
effects, manipulating energy transfer in polaritonic systems. The OPCPA 
is a work-horse laser system for simultaneous use with multiple 
experiments. The experiments to be conducted involve time-resolved 
photoemission microscopy of both occupied and unoccupied electronic 
structure of materials, heterodyned electronic sum-frequency-generation 
spectroscopy, transient absorption spectroscopy. Justification for 
Duty-Free Entry: According to the applicant, there are no instruments 
of the same general category manufactured in the United States. 
Application accepted by Commissioner of Customs: October 9, 2020.

    Dated: November 19, 2020.
Richard Herring,
Acting Director, Subsidies Enforcement, Enforcement and Compliance.
[FR Doc. 2020-26020 Filed 11-24-20; 8:45 am]
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