[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 124 (Tuesday, June 29, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Pages 37384-37385]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-15764]
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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 19, 2010. 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 p.m. at the U.S. Department of
Commerce in Room 3720.
Docket Number: 10-015. Applicant: National Center for Toxicological
Research, U.S. Food & Drug Administration, Department of Health and
Human Services, 3900 NCTR Road, Jefferson, Arkansas 72079. Instrument:
Electron Microscope. Manufacturer: JEOL, Ltd., Japan. Intended Use: The
instrument will be used to identify and image nanoscale materials that
are being tested at this FDA laboratory, and to detect these materials
in biological samples including tissue culture and organs from animals.
Justification for Duty-Free Entry: There are no instruments of the same
general category being produced in the United States. Application
accepted by Commissioner of Customs: June 16, 2010.
Docket Number: 10-023. Applicant: University of Virginia, P.O. Box
800886, 480 Ray C Hunt Drive, Charlottesville, VA 22903. Instrument:
Electron Microscope. Manufacturer: FEI Company, the Netherlands.
Intended Use: The instrument will be used to study proteins,
macromolecular complexes, and viruses. The primary goal of the research
is to obtain structural information for biological specimens at as high
a resolution as possible. Justification for Duty-Free Entry: There are
no instruments of the same general category being produced in the
United States. Application accepted by Commissioner of Customs: June
15, 2010.
Docket Number: 10-029. Applicant: Argonne National Laboratory, 9700
South Cass Avenue, Lemont, IL 60439. Instrument: Electron Microscope.
Manufacturer: JEOL, Ltd., Japan. Intended Use: This instrument will be
used to characterize different types of nanosized materials. A key
aspect of the research focuses on understanding different aspects of
physical and chemical behavior of individual metallic, semiconducting
and magnetic nanosized materials and their assembled structures.
Justification for Duty-Free Entry: There are no instruments of the same
general category being produced in the United States. Application
accepted by Commissioner of Customs: June 11, 2010.
Docket Number: 10-030. Applicant: University of California, Davis,
One Shields Ave., Davis, CA 95616. Instrument: Electron Microscope.
Manufacturer: Elionix Co., Ltd., Japan. Intended Use: This instrument
will be used to measure and quantify the structural integrity,
geometry, chemical composition, and accuracy of nano machining tools
and machined workpieces. The micro tools that will be observed are made
of poly-crystalline diamond (PCD) or nano-crystalline diamond (NCD) and
the grain structure before and after machining must be carefully
observed with extremely high magnification. Justification for Duty-Free
Entry: There are no instruments of the same general category being
produced in the United States. Application accepted by Commissioner of
Customs: June 11, 2010.
Docket Number: 10-031. Applicant: National Institutes of Health,
9000 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20892. Instrument: Electron
Microscope. Manufacturer: JEOL, Ltd., Japan. Intended Use: This
instrument will be used to study subcellular, supramolecular or
macromolecular structures at a resolution approximately 1000-fold
greater than that achieved with the light microscope. Justification for
Duty-Free Entry: There are no instruments of the same general category
being produced in the United States. Application accepted by
Commissioner of Customs: June 10, 2010.
Docket Number: 10-032. Applicant: Battelle Memorial Institute, 3335
Q Avenue, Richland, WA 99354. Instrument: Electron Microscope.
Manufacturer: FEI Company, the Netherlands. Intended Use: The
instrument will be used to study both structural and chemical
composition information at the atomic scale. Justification for Duty-
Free Entry: There are no instruments of the same general category being
produced in the United States. Application accepted by Commissioner of
Customs: June 9, 2010.
Docket Number: 10-033. Applicant: Massachusetts General Hospital,
114 16th St., Charlestown, MA 02120. Instrument: Electron Microscope.
Manufacturer: JEOL, Ltd., Japan. Intended Use: This instrument will be
used for the study of materials such as cultured cells (Hela, n2a,
clonal striatal cells, primary neurons), mouse brain, isolated
autophagosomes from cultured cells, and exosomes from human brain. The
goals are to understand how prenatal cocaine exposure alters dopamine
receptor signaling and GABA neuron development in the mouse
telencephalon. Justification for Duty-Free Entry: There are no
instruments of the same general category being produced in the United
States.
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Application accepted by Commissioner of Customs: June 9, 2010.
Docket Number: 10-035. Applicant: University of Maine System, 16
Central St., Bangor, ME 04401. Instrument: Electron Microscope.
Manufacturer: Tescan, Czech Republic. Intended Use: This instrument
will be used for the study of primarily geological (wet and dry
sediment, rocks, fossils) but also some archaeological and biological
materials. The objective is to obtain a better understanding of the
mechanical and chemical structure of the Earth's crust, fluid flow in
the crust, mechanisms for magma flow, and more. Justification for Duty-
Free Entry: There are no instruments of the same general category being
produced in the United States. Application accepted by Commissioner of
Customs: June 9, 2010.
Docket Number: 10-036. Applicant: University of Kansas Medical
Center, 3901 Rainbow Blvd., MSN 1039, Kansas City, KS 66160.
Instrument: Electron Microscope. Manufacturer: JEOL, Ltd., Japan.
Intended Use: This instrument will be used to study the morphology and
ultrastructure of biological cells and tissues, and potentially
infectious agents, such as bacteria and viruses. Most of the
experiments will be carried out on biological material that has been
chemically preserved so that its structure can be determined by
transmission electron microscope at ultrahigh magnification to obtain
the greatest detail and highest resolution achievable. Justification
for Duty-Free Entry: There are no instruments of the same general
category being produced in the United States. Application accepted by
Commissioner of Customs: June 11, 2010.
Docket Number: 10-037. Applicant: University of South Dakota, 414
East Clark St., Vermillion, SD 57069. Instrument: Electron Microscope.
Manufacturer: FEI Company, Czech Republic. Intended Use: This
instrument will be used to study inorganic nanostructured materials.
The objective is to record data on the morphology of the nanostructured
materials. The transmission electron microscope is essential to
researchers' understanding of how the concentration and identity of
capping ligands affect the size and morphology of the nanoparticles.
Justification for Duty-Free Entry: There are no instruments of the same
general category being produced in the United States. Application
accepted by Commissioner of Customs: June 15, 2010.
Docket Number: 10-039. Applicant: Northwestern University, 2205
Tech Drive, Hogan 2-100, Evanston, IL 60201. Instrument: Electron
Microscope. Manufacturer: JEOL, Ltd., Japan. Intended Use: This
instrument will be used to study the structure of biological
macromolecules, and to aid the development of novel methods that will
facilitate the study of biological materials by electron microscopy.
The objective is to visualize the 3-dimensional structure of biological
macromolecular assemblies. Justification for Duty-Free Entry: There are
no instruments of the same general category being produced in the
United States. Application accepted by Commissioner of Customs: June
15, 2010.
Docket Number: 10-040. Applicant: Illinois State University, School
of Biological Sciences, Loading Dock, Science Lab Building, 125 South
Fell Avenue, Normal, IL 61790-4120. Instrument: Electron Microscope.
Manufacturer: FEI Company, Czech Republic. Intended Use: This
instrument will be used to study the structure of plants, algae, fruit
flies, bacterial biofilms, and host/bacterium interaction. The
objective is to determine whether antibiotics are effective in changing
the structure of biofilms, including structure of tiny channels through
which fluid and nutrients reach innermost cells of the biofilm.
Justification for Duty-Free Entry: There are no instruments of the same
general category being produced in the United States. Application
accepted by Commissioner of Customs: June 14, 2010.
Docket Number: 10-041. Applicant: Temple University, 1901 N. 13th
Street, Department of Chemistry, Philadelphia, PA 19122. Instrument:
Electron Microscope. Manufacturer: JEOL, Ltd., Japan. Intended Use:
This instrument will be used in materials research and biological
fields to examine the structure and properties of these materials under
high resolution. Examples of research activities include the study of
phase transformation of nanoparticulates in soil and aquatic systems;
nanostructures that make up polymer electrolyte membrane (PEM) fuel
cells; functionalized nanoparticles for optical applications; and more.
Justification for Duty-Free Entry: There are no instruments of the same
general category being produced in the United States. Application
accepted by Commissioner of Customs: June 15, 2010.
Docket Number: 10-042. Applicant: University of Arkansas for
Medical Sciences, 4301 W. Markham, Slot 505, Little Rock, AR 72205.
Instrument: Electron Microscope. Manufacturer: FEI, the Netherlands.
Intended Use: This instrument will be used for research concerning
cellular organelles and protein complexes. The objective is to extend
the level of resolution in research from the 200 nm level of light
microscopy to the 1 nm or better level of electron microscopy. This
will help researchers understand how cellular receptors function, how a
specific cellular organelle, the Golgi apparatus, functions, and how
protein complex involved in viral replication functions. Justification
for Duty-Free Entry: There are no instruments of the same general
category being produced in the United States. Application accepted by
Commissioner of Customs: June 16, 2010.
Dated: June 23, 2010.
Christopher Cassel,
Director, IA Subsidies Enforcement Office.
[FR Doc. 2010-15764 Filed 6-28-10; 8:45 am]
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