[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 144 (Tuesday, July 28, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Pages 44936-44938]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-18450]
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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 August 17, 2015. 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: 15-015. Applicant: University of Pittsburgh, 100
Technology Drive, Suite 350, Pittsburgh, PA 15219. Instrument:
Oxygraph-2K. Manufacturer: Oroboros Instruments Corp, Austria. Intended
Use: The instrument will be used to evaluate the various putative
antidotes to reverse the effects of cyanide or sulfide toxicants on
mitochondria in cultured cells. The instrument will be used to measure
changes in oxygen consumption rates correlated with either changes in
mitochondrial inner-membrane depolarization, changes in calcium fluxes
between endoplasmic reticulum and mitochondria, or prevailing levels of
hydrogen peroxide and nitric oxide. The instrument is unique in its
ability to allow routine measurements to be made with specifications
summarized under the term ``high-resolution respirometry'', meaning the
limit of detection of O2 flux is as low as 0.5
pmols-1 cm-3, signal noise at zero oxygen
concentration is <0.05 [mu]M O2, oxygen back-diffusion at
zero oxygen at <3 pmols-1 cm-3, and oxygen
consumption at air saturation and standard basic barometric pressure
(100kPa) at 2.7 0.9 SD in at 37 degrees Celsius. The dual
measurement capability of the instrument is also critical for the
experiments. 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: June 1, 2015.
Docket Number: 15-019. Applicant: Oregon State University, 2900 SW
Campus Way, LPSC 145, Corvallis, OR 97331-2140. Instrument: Electron
Microscope. Manufacturer: FEI Company, Czech Republic. Intended Use:
The instrument will be used to identify genus and species of small
biological samples such as pollen, diatoms, and dead bacteria, as well
as study novel life science and materials science samples.
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 23, 2015.
Docket Number: 15-021. Applicant: The City University of New York,
205 East 42nd Street, Room 11-64, New York, NY 10017. Instrument:
Electron Microscope. Manufacturer: FEI Company, Japan. Intended Use:
The instrument will be used to visualize macromolecular complexes
composed of protein, nucleic acids and lipids, organelles and cells in
vitrified ice, to understand the structural mechanism by which
macromolecular complexes, organelles and cells carry out their actions.
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 8, 2015.
Docket Number: 15-022. Applicant: Purdue University, 701 West
Stadium Ave., ARMS, West Lafayette, IN 47907. Instrument: Conical twin
screw minicompounder. Manufacturer: Xplore, the Netherlands. Intended
Use: The instrument will be used to find improved formulations of
polymer resins with improved mechanical, thermal, electrical and other
properties using compounding, recirculation, master-batch mixing and
additive mixing. The instrument satisfies several requirements for the
experiments, including surface hardness of components at 2000 Vickers
hardness, operational temperature to 450 degrees Celsius, conical twin
screw design, capability of both co- and counter-rotating, expandable
to specialized screws for nanomaterial compounding, expandable to film
line, fiber line, and injection molder, corrosive material tolerance
(pH 0-14) and the ability to track viscosity. 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: June 12, 2015.
Docket Number: 15-023. Applicant: Idaho National Laboratory, 2525
Fremont Avenue, Idaho Falls, ID 83415. Instrument: Focused Ion Beam
(FIB) Microscope. Manufacturer: FEI, Czech Republic. Intended Use: The
instrument will be used to analyze materials including nuclear fuels
used in research and power reactors as well as irradiated structural
materials associated with the operation of nuclear reactors, to obtain
insight on the microstructure stability of nuclear materials, including
the effects of radiation on the microstructure of nuclear fuels and
structural materials and the effects of porosity due to fission gas
and/or helium production. The instrument is used to create a pristine
sample surface, void of damage crated by standard sample preparation
techniques for microstructure characterization. Additionally, it can be
used to create samples from irradiated fuel that have radiation levels
that are less than the detection limits of standard radiation counters,
which lowers the dose received to personnel when handling FIB'ed
samples. 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: June 15, 2015.
Docket Number: 15-024. Applicant: Institute for the Preservation of
Cultural Heritage, Yale University, 300 Hefferman Drive, Bldg. 900,
West Haven, CT 06516. Instrument: Willard Multi-Function Table.
Manufacturer: Willard, United Kingdom. Intended Use: The instrument
will be used to carry out conservation processes, for conservation
fellows to develop and research methodologies of treatment and to
instruct student conservators in structural conservation techniques.
The surface of the table can be heated very precisely and evenly, air
can be circulated under the surface to create downward pressure, air
can also be passed through ducts which can be heated and can produce
precisely controlled humidity, a vacuum system can be used to hold
objects in place and can be operated independently of the
humidification system, which is a unique feature of the instrument.
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Research into new techniques and the testing of adhesives and
consolidants will be undertaken. 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
21, 2015.
Docket Number: 15-025. Applicant: The Rockefeller University, 1230
York Avenue, New York, NY 10065. Instrument: Electron Microscope.
Manufacturer: FEI Company, the Netherlands. Intended Use: The
instrument will be used to determine three-dimensional structures of
single proteins or multi-protein complexes, complexes between proteins
and nucleic acids, which can be either RNA or DNA, as well as lipids,
detergents or inhibitors of certain proteins. 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 27, 2015.
Docket Number: 15-026. Applicant: University of Delaware, 201
DuPont Hall, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716. Instrument:
Electron Microscope. Manufacturer: FEI Company, Brno, Czech Republic.
Intended Use: The instrument will be used to obtain structural and
elemental information of materials such as polymers, colloids and
biomaterials, including morphology, size distribution, and crystal
structure and their correlations with material processes and
properties. 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: June 16, 2015.
Docket Number: 15-027. Applicant: University of Nebraska, Lincoln,
1700 Y St., Lincoln, NE 68588-0645. Instrument: Photonic Professional
GT-upgrade. Manufacturer: Nanoscribe GmbH, Germany. Intended Use: The
instrument will be used to research micro/nano 3D printing, micro/nano
technology, materials, and novel laser-material interactions, using 3D
laser lithography techniques integrating both two-photon polymerization
(TPP) and multi-photon ablation (MPA). The instrument integrates both a
precise piezo stage and a galvano scanner for a large-are and fast
micro/nano-structuring. Multi-photon polymerization and multi-photon
ablation will be investigated and applied for printing 3D micro/nano-
structures of arbitrary geometries, especially those on plasmonics,
photonics and microelectromechanical systems. The influence of degree
of polymerization on the micro 3D printing will be studied for further
3D fabrication. 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: June 16, 2015.
Docket Number: 15-028. Applicant: University of California, Irvine,
816 F Engineering Tower, Irvine, CA 92697-2575. Instrument: Electron
Microscope. Manufacturer: JEOL Ltd., Japan. Intended Use: The
instrument will be used to determine nanoparticle size, crystal
structure, interface and defect structure, surface structure,
composition, electronic state, bad-gap, cell structure, magnetic domain
structure, 3D-structure and phase transformation of materials such as
metals, ceramics, semiconductors, superconductors, polymers, magnetic
and electronic materials, nanomaterials, tissues and cells.
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: June 12, 2015.
Docket Number: 15-030. Applicant: Washington State University, 220
French Administration Building, P.O. Box 641020, Pullman, WA 99164-
1020. Instrument: MSM400 Yeast Tetrad Dissection Microscope.
Manufacturer: Singer Instruments, United Kingdom. Intended Use: The
instrument will be used to gain a basic molecular understanding of how
cells repair DNA damage, how different chromosome features (i.e. DNA
sequence, transcription, replication, protein association) impact the
efficiency of repair and ultimately the production of mutation due to
failure of repair, using the instrument to isolate haploid yeast with
specific genetic backgrounds that can most easily be generated in
heterozygous diploid yeast. In addition the instrument will be used to
determine on which chromosomes genetic alterations took place in
diploid yeast treated with DNA damaging agents, as well as to document
the growth and cell cycle stage of yeast. The instrument has a robotic
stage that automatically places dissected spores on a grid to ensure
correct cataloging of spores, and also allows control of the dissecting
needle along 3 axes. No domestic manufactured instruments have these
required capabilities. 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 10, 2015.
Docket Number: 15-032. Applicant: The Trustees of Princeton
University, 701 Carnegie Center, Princeton, NJ 08540. Instrument:
Helios Dual Beam. Manufacturer: FEI Company, Czech Republic. Intended
Use: The instrument will be used to perform imaging on cross sections
of nanoscale, biological, photonic and multifunctional materials, made
at precise geometric locations at a very small scale. Additionally, it
is used to cross-section through the exact center of an impression, or
along planes parallel to a set of microstructural features. Standard
methods are incapable of preparing cross sections with the requisite
spatial precision. With its unique triple detection system located
inside the column and immersion mode, the system is designed for
simultaneous detector acquisition for angular and energy selective SE
and BSE imaging. Fast access to very precise, clear information is
guaranteed, not only top-down, but also on titled specimen or cross-
sections. Additional below-the-lens detectors and a beam deceleration
mode unsure that all signals are collected and no information is left
behind. The instrument extends characterization with a versatile 110mm
goniometer stage with tilt capability up to 90 degrees and optimal
tripe in-column detection. Unique features of the instrument include
the shortest time to nanoscale information using best in class Ga ion
gun and Elstar Schlottky FESEM high resolution, stability and
automation, sample management tailored to individual application needs,
with the high flexibility 110mm and high stability 150mm piezo stages,
the focused ion beam can mill any material to a very fine scale, and
can make features with a high degree of accuracy at the nanoscale, with
critical dimensions of less than 50 nm, rapidly design, create and
inspect micro and nano-scale functional prototype devices and create 3D
Nanoprototyping with a DualBeam, sharp, refined and charge-free
contrast obtained from up to 6 integrated in-column and below-the-lens
detectors, can mill difficult charging samples with charge neutralizer.
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: June 18, 2015.
Docket Number: 15-033. Applicant: Battelle Memorial Institute, 790
6th Street, Richland, WA 99354. Instrument:
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Electron Microscope. Manufacturer: FEI Company, the Netherlands.
Intended Use: The instrument will be used to understand the structure-
property or structure-activity of materials such as catalysts,
semiconductors, battery materials, and minerals at high spatial
resolution under realistic conditions in order to design better
materials. 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: June 16, 2015.
Docket Number: 15-034. Applicant: Purdue University, 401 S. Grant
St., West Lafayette, IN 47907. Instrument: Diode-Pumped Solid-State
Laser. Manufacturer: Edgewave GmbH, Germany. Intended Use: The
instrument will be used to enhance the fundamental understanding of
propellant combustion so that safer and higher performance solid
propellants can be designed and developed. The instrument is to be used
for the measurement of flame radical species in propellant flames in
real-time, using high-frame-rate (10-40kHz) imaging of the flame
radical OH, produced in the reaction zone. The OH distribution is used
to determine the burning mode for the propellant, and the laser system
will give the capability to obtain high-frame-rate images of other
propellants. The primary technique is high-frame-rate planar laser-
induced fluorescence (PLIF) imaging. The UV laser from a Credo dye
laser, pumped by the Edgewave DPSS laser, is formed into a focused
sheet using a combination of spherical and cylindrical lenses. The
frequency of the UV beam is then tuned to a resonance transition for
the OH radical and the OH radical is pumped from the ground state to an
excited electronic state by absorbing a photon from the laser sheet.
Once in the excited state, the OH radical can decay by emitting a
photon (fluorescence). The fluorescence light is imaged using a high-
frame-rate intensified CMOS camera to produce an image of the OH
distribution in the laser sheet, providing both time-and space-resolved
information on the laser process. No domestic instruments have the
required power, rep rate, and pulse length on the order of 10
nanoseconds. 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: June 23, 2015.
Dated: July 21, 2015.
Gregory W. Campbell,
Director of Subsidies Enforcement, Enforcement and Compliance.
[FR Doc. 2015-18450 Filed 7-27-15; 8:45 am]
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