[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 21 (Wednesday, February 3, 2021)]
[Notices]
[Pages 7991-7992]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2021-02233]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration


Rice University, et. al; Notice of Decision on Applicationfor 
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 
November 25, 2020, 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

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Application(s) for Duty-Free Entry of Scientific Instruments, 85 FR 
75302-03, November 25, 2020 (Notice). We received no public comments.
    Docket Number: 20-008. Applicant: Rice University, 6100 Main 
Street, Houston, TX 77005. Instrument: Signal Acquisition ASCI. 
Manufacturer: LiMicro, China. Intended Use: See Notice at 85 FR 75302-
03, November 25, 2020. Comments: None received. Decision: Approved. We 
know of no instruments of equivalent scientific value to the foreign 
instruments described below, for such purposes as this is intended to 
be used, that were being manufactured in the United States at the time 
of order. Reasons: According to the applicant, the instrument will be 
used to study and investigate in-vivo large-scale, high-density, long-
term, neutral recording to integrate the signal acquisition instrument 
that it plans to purchase with its custom developed ultra-flexible nano 
electronic thread (NET) microelectrodes as a neural recording system to 
monitor chronic neural signals in freely behaving animals. The 
applicant also plans to investigate the formation of connections 
between various brain regions and the evolution of the neutral 
connections over extended periods. This large-scale, high-density, 
long-term neural recording study has the potential to help understand 
the fundamental mechanisms of neural circuitry and explore treatments 
for neurological conditions.
    Docket Number: 20-009. Applicant: University of Chicago, Chemistry 
E005A, 929 E 57th Street (loading docket behind 5741 S Drexel Avenue), 
Chicago, IL 60637. Instrument: White Dwarf Optimal Parametric Amplifier 
System (OPCPA). Manufacturer: Class 5 Photonics, GmbH, Germany. 
Intended Use: According to the applicant, the instrument will be used 
to study and determine how the local electronic structure of 
nanostructured materials is related to their morphology, and directly 
measure the electronic transitions at buried interfaces in materials, 
controlling anisotropic charge transport via photoinduced strain 
effects, manipulating energy transfer in polaritonic systems. The OPCPA 
is a work-horse laser system for simultaneous use with multiple 
experiments. The experiments to be conducted involve time-resolved 
photoemission microscopy of both occupied and unoccupied electronic 
structure of materials, heterodyned electronic sum-frequency-generation 
spectroscopy, transient absorption spectroscopy.

    Dated: January 28, 2021.
Richard Herring,
Director, Subsidies Enforcement, Enforcement and Compliance.
[FR Doc. 2021-02233 Filed 2-2-21; 8:45 am]
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