[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 180 (Monday, September 19, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 57173-57174]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-20209]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration


For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology 
(FIRST), et. al; Notice of Decision on Application for Duty-Free Entry 
of Scientific Instruments

    This is a decision 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). On 
August 16, 2022, the Department of Commerce published a notice in the 
Federal Register requesting public comment on whether instruments of 
equivalent scientific value, for the purposes for which the instruments 
identified in the docket(s) below are intended to be used, are being 
manufactured in the United States. See Application(s) for Duty-Free 
Entry of Scientific Instruments, 87 FR 50289-90, August 16, 2022 
(Notice). We received no public comments.
    Docket Number: 22-001. Applicant: For Inspiration and Recognition 
of Science and Technology (FIRST), 200 Bedford Street, Manchester, NH 
03101. Instrument: Dual Band 1.17 Gbps Access Point. Manufacturer: Open 
Mesh Inc., China. Intended Use: According to the applicant, the FIRST 
Robotics Competition (FRC) (EIN 22-2990908) requires wireless radio 
communication between student teams' driver controls and their home-
build robots. It is crucial that FRC be able to manage the wireless 
traffic (for safety and team experience reasons). FRC mandates a 
specific radio (Datto's OM5P-AN, obsolete, or OM5P-AC models, both are 
dual band 1.17 Gbps access points) with custom firmware which optimizes 
the radio for the competition use case. This transaction is to secure 
the radios needed for educational robotic kits for the 2020 season 
(4,400) air-freighted to meet 2020 season deadlines) and the 2021 
season (4,336 shipped via ocean). The applicant certifies that there 
will not be any use of the foreign instrument by or for the primary 
benefit of any commercial (for-profit) entity with 5 years after entry 
of the foreign instrument into the United States customs territory.
    Docket Number: 22-002. Applicant: University of California, 
Riverside, 900 University Avenue, Riverside, CA 92521. Instrument: 
Customs Pulsed Laser Deposit & Molecular-Beam Epitaxy (PLD/MBE) 
deposition system. Manufacturer: BEIJING PERFECT TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., 
Beijing, China. Intended Use: According to the applicant, the 
instrument is intended to be used for research purposes for 
experimental condenses matter physics, spin transport, quantum 
transport, and spin-dependent physics, graphene, 2D layers, 
heterostructures, and nanoscale devices, magnetic insulators, 
heterostructures and interfaces, energy related materials science 
research.
    Docket Number: 22-003. Applicant: University of Chicago Argonne 
LLC, Operator of Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 South Cass Avenue, 
Lemont, IL (U.S.A.), 60439-4873. Instrument: High Heat Load Exit Mask 
Assemblies. Manufacturer: Strumenti Scientific CINEL S.R.L., Italy. 
Intended Use: According to the applicant, these components will be used 
to assemble the new high heat load front ends for the Advanced Photon 
Source upgrade. The front end consists of a series of components that 
connect the storage ring to the user beamline to deliver a photon beam 
that will be used as a three-dimensional X-ray microscope for 
experimental purposes. The materials/phenomena that are studied vary 
widely from material properties analysis, protein mapping for 
pharmaceutical companies, X-ray imaging and chemical

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composition determination. These components will be used exclusively 
for scientific research for a minimum of 5 years at Argonne National 
Laboratory. The properties of the materials studied include but are not 
limited to grain structure, grain boundary and interstitial defects, 
and morphology. These properties are not only studied at ambient 
environments but also under high pressure, temperature, stress and 
strain.
    Docket Number: 22-004. Applicant: UChicago Argonne LLC, Operatory 
of Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 South Cass Avenue, Lemont, IL 
(U.S.A.) 60439-4873. Instrument: High Energy Monochromators. 
Manufacturer: Strumenti Scientific CINEL S.R.L., Italy. Intended Use: 
According to the applicant, these instruments will be used on new 
beamlines for the Advanced Photon Source upgrade. The monochromators 
are bandpass optical filters, that allow only a narrow band of 
wavelengths of X-rays to pass. This is critical for the needs of the 
beamline's experimental purposes. The materials/phenomena that are 
studied vary widely from material properties analysis, protein mapping 
for pharmaceutical companies, X-ray imaging and chemical composition 
determination. These components will be used exclusively for scientific 
research for a minimum of 5 years at Argonne National Laboratory. The 
properties of the materials studied include but are not limited to 
grain structure, grain boundary and interstitial defects, and 
morphology. These properties are not only studied at ambient 
environments but also under high pressure, temperature, stress and 
strain.
    Docket Number: 22-005. Applicant: Cornell University, School of 
Civil and Environmental Engineering, Hollister Hall (2046), Room #220, 
527 College Avenue, Ithaca, NY 14853-3501, USA. Instrument: Semi-
automatic single cell sorter. Manufacturer: Hooke Instruments, Ltd., 
P.R. China. Intended Use: According to the applicant, the research will 
involve identifying and obtaining novel single cells based on metabolic 
traits that cannot be identified with simple label/staining, and in 
addition, we would like to obtain live cells for further culturing and 
investigation. We are interested in novel and non-culturable organisms/
cells that possess combined traits of desire that can be detected using 
Raman micro-spectroscopy fingerprinting. This unique label-free and 
ejection-based cell sorter is the only one known that will enable the 
applicant to eject the single live cell (pre-identified with non-
invasive, non-damaging Raman) in complicated bioprocess/environmental 
(soil water) samples into collectors and then allow us to study them.

    Dated: September 14, 2022.
Richard Herring,
Director, Subsidies Enforcement, Enforcement and Compliance.
[FR Doc. 2022-20209 Filed 9-16-22; 8:45 am]
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