[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 210 (Wednesday, October 30, 2013)]
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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 19, 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: 13-034. Applicant: University of Minnesota--Twin
Cities, 421 Washington Avenue SE., Minneapolis, MN 55455. Instrument:
Diode-Pumped Solid-State Femtosecond Laser. Manufacturer: Light
Conversion, Lithuania. Intended Use: The instrument will be used to
study non-equilibrium materials processes ranging spatially from the
atomic-scale up to micrometers and temporally from femtoseconds to
seconds, including thermal transport, energy conversion (e.g., light to
heat), crystallization, melting, phase transformations, fracture, and
other dynamic events. The unique characteristics of the instrument
required for the research objectives include a variable repetition rate
from single-shot to 1 MHz controlled with TTL input for external
triggering or via computer interface, 0.2 mJ/pulse (<30 kHz), 6 Watts
at 1 MHz, collinear output from a harmonics module of fundamental (1030
nm), second harmonic (515 nm), and third harmonic (343 nm) with
additional optics for operation at low and high repetition rates.
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 30, 2013.
Docket Number: 13-036. Applicant: UChicago Argonne, 9700 South Cass
Avenue, Lemont, IL 60439. Instrument: High pressure crystal growth
furnace with Siemens programmable logic controller. Manufacturer:
SCIDRE--Scientific Instruments, Germany. Intended Use: The instrument
will be used to create transition metal oxides, including oxides of
iron, manganese, copper, cobalt, vanadium, iridium, ruthenium, rhenium,
titanium, nickel, and zinc. It will also be used to grow crystals of
intermetallic phases, which are non-oxides of these same transition
metals, alloyed with lanthanide metals and/or main group metals (e.g.,
Al, Si, Bi). These materials will be created to understand a variety of
physical phenomena including superconductivity, metal-insulator
transitions, and magnetism. With the crystals grown on the instrument,
a variety of tests will be performed including magnetic measurements,
structural determination by x-ray or neutron scattering, and electrical
transport. The unique characteristics of this instrument required for
the research objectives include operation at pressures of oxygen or
inert gases up to 150 atm, measurement of image zone using pyrometric
probes, and cleansing of inert gas stream to better than
10-12 ppm oxygen with monitoring during process.
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 19, 2013.
Docket Number: 13-037. Applicant: Georgia Health Sciences
University, 1120 15th Street, Augusta, GA 30912. Instrument: Imaging
System/Digital Microscope & Accessories. Manufacturer: Till Photonics,
Germany. Intended Use: The instrument will be used for fluorescence
imaging of cellular organelles and calcium flux, photo-activation and
photo-bleaching fluorescent proteins to study cellular organelles
(mitochondria) and intracellular ion flux. The unique characteristics
of the instrument include fast wavelength change, a dichromotome
system, and two different light sources that are incorporated and
readily switchable, incorporated into a single unit of a wide field
fluorescence microscope. 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 22,
2013.
Dated: October 22, 2013.
Gregory W. Campbell,
Director of Subsidies Enforcement, Enforcement and Compliance.
[FR Doc. 2013-25599 Filed 10-29-13; 8:45 am]
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