[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 119 (Thursday, June 20, 2013)]
[Notices]
[Pages 37206-37207]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2013-14773]
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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 July 10, 2013. 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: 13-017. Applicant: Ohio State University, 2041
College Road, Columbus, OH 43210. Instrument: Cryo-SEM System with
Aquilo Preparation Chamber. Manufacturer:
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Quorum Technologies, United Kingdom. Intended Use: The instrument will
be fitted to an existing dual beam focused ion beam (FIB) instrument in
order to provide a new capability for 3-D imaging and analysis of
polymeric materials and biomaterials at cryogenic temperatures below -
109 degrees Celsius. The required performance characteristics for this
instrument are a highly stable, thermally isolated nitrogen gas-cooled
stage which attaches to the SEM stage and is capable of reaching a
temperature range of + 100 to -190 degrees Celsius, a separately cooled
cold trap with independent temperature control capable of reaching
temperatures below -190 degrees Celsius, a cryo-preparation, cryo-
transfer chamber that is directly attached to the SEM, but with the
turbomolecular vacuum pumping and advanced gas cooling system mounted
remotely, as well as a high vacuum system consisting of a remotely
positioned 70L/s turbomolecular pumping system capable of achieving a
vacuum of 10-6 mbar or better in the directly attached
cryopreparation, cryo-transfer chamber. The instrument will be used for
cryo-imaging that will provide new insights in the study of
biocompatibility and failure of orthopaedic implants, and also the
evaluation of new materials and implant surfaces for tissue engineering
applications. The cryo-preparation, cryo-transfer and cryo-imaging
capabilities will enable minimally invasive approaches to be used to
investigate structures and interfaces in their near-native vitreous
state. 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: April 3, 2013.
Docket Number: 13-019. Applicant: California State University
Northridge, 18111 Nordhoff Street, Northridge, CA 91330. Instrument:
Ultrahigh Vacuum Low Temperature Scanning Tunneling Microscope.
Manufacturer: Unisoku Co., Ltd., Japan. Intended Use: The instrument
will be used to study the electronic and spin-related phenomena (Kondo
effect, spin flip, spin injection, etc.) in low dimensional materials
including grapheme (one atomic layer of carbon atoms), magnetic
materials (transition metals iron, cobalt, nickel and corresponding
phthalocyanine molecules), and topological insulators. The techniques
to be implemented include depositing magnetic atoms or molecules on
grapheme and measuring scanning tunneling spectroscopy of these
magnetic impurities on grapheme, growing grapheme on ferromagnetic
materials (cobalt, iron) and measuring the spin-polarization of
grapheme induced by the ferromagnetic materials, as well measuring the
scanning tunneling spectroscopy on topological insulators. The
capabilities required for these experiments that this instrument
fulfills include a high magnetic field of 8 Tesla, and measurements at
low temperature (<5 Kelvin). 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: May 1,
2013.
Docket Number: 13-021. Applicant: University of Massachusetts
Amherst, 120 Governors Drive, Amherst, MA 01003. Instrument: Electron
Microscope. Manufacturer: JEOL Ltd., Japan. Intended Use: The
instrument will be used to identify structure/properties relationships
of polymer based solar cells or for the structural analysis of polymer/
nanoparticle hybrid materials for the development of high-density
storage devices, as well as to study the self-assembly of bio-polymer
systems for drug-delivery system development. 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: April 3, 2013.
Docket Number: 13-020. Applicant: University of Texas at Austin,
2109 San Jacinto Blvd.--D3700, Austin, TX 78712-1415. Instrument: V-
Gait Dual Belt Instrumented Treadmill. Manufacturer: Motek Medial, the
Netherlands. Intended Use: The instrument will be used to study how
both healthy humans and humans with various walking impairments (old
age, stroke, etc.) maintain balance and prevent falls while they walk,
and how to develop rehabilitation interventions that can help reduce
risks of falling in these individuals. The experiments will include
asking participants to walk on the treadmill while they are subjected
to a variety of different types of perturbations and manipulations. The
instrument's software will control and coordinate both the treadmill
and the virtual reality environment to impose the perturbations and/or
other walking conditions that are specified. Existing devices will be
integrated into the instrument's virtual reality system to
synchronously record information regarding how participants move and
their muscle activations in response to various manipulations of their
walking behavior. The primary individual components of this instrument
that are required for these experiments are the split-belt perturbation
treadmill, the virtual reality system, and the data recording systems,
as well as the ``D-Flow'' system which allows each component to
communicate with one another. 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: May 1,
2013.
Docket Number: 13-023. Applicant: Max Planck Florida Institute, One
Max Planck Way, Jupiter, FL 33458. Instrument: Quanta 250 FEG SEM
(D8421). Manufacturer: FEI Company, Czech Republic. Intended Use: The
instrument will be used for the fabrication of atomic force microscope
cantilevers and electron beam deposition. The cantilevers are made from
silicon or silicon nitride, with the radius of the tip curvature on the
order of nanometers. Electron-beam deposition is a process of
decomposing gaseous molecules by electron beam leading to deposition of
non-volatile fragments onto a nearby substrate. The electron beam is
usually provided by a scanning electron microscope that results in high
spatial accuracy (less than one nanometer), and the possibility to
produce free-standing, three-dimensional structures. The cantilevers
are observed by the scanning electron microscope. The chamber of the
scanning electron microscope is filled with carbon gases. Then the
electron from the scanning microscope focuses on the tip of cantilevers
to deposit an amorphous carbon. The instrument needs to work with high
beam parking precision (~1 nanometer) in the environment in which the
material deposition is produced in relatively low vacuum. 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: May 16, 2013.
Dated: June 14, 2013.
Gregory W. Campbell,
Director of Subsidies Enforcement, Import Administration.
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