[Federal Register Volume 72, Number 99 (Wednesday, May 23, 2007)]
[Notices]
[Pages 28954-28955]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E7-9921]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration


Purdue University, et al., Notice of Consolidated Decision on 
Applications, for Duty-Free Entry of Scientific Instruments

    This is a decision consolidated pursuant to Section 6(c) of the 
Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Materials Importation Act of 1966 
(Pub.

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L. 89-651, 80 Stat. 897; 15 CFR part 301). Related records can be 
viewed between 8:30 a.m. and 5 p.m. in Room 2104, U.S. Department of 
Commerce, 14th and Penn. Ave., NW, Washington, DC.
    Comments: None received. Decision: Approved. We know of no 
instrument of equivalent scientific value to the foreign instruments 
described below, for such purposes as each is intended to be used, 
which was being manufactured in the United States at the time of its 
order.
    Docket Number: 06-054. Applicant: Purdue University, West 
Lafayette, IN. Instrument: DBF Fiber Laser System. Manufacturer: 
Koheras A/S, Denmark. Intended Use: See notice at 72 FR 20505, April 
25, 2007. Reasons: The foreign instrument provides a means to describe 
and formulate the physical description of the fundamental noise 
properties of optical frequency combs and their application to Optical 
Arbitrary Waveform Generation. An ultra-narrow (1.0 kHz optical 
linewidth) CW laser is used to sweep the carrier frequency and beat it 
with a conventional mode-locked laser based optical frequency comb. The 
CW laser also provides a 60 pm fast piezo tuning range and 700 pm 
thermal tuning with 100 mW output power.
    Docket Number: 06-059. Applicant: Rutgers University, New 
Brunswick, NJ. Instrument: Micro-dissecting Microscope. Manufacturer: 
Singer Instruments, UK. Intended Use: See notice at 72 FR 20505, April 
25, 2007. Reasons: The foreign instrument provides capability to 
identify and categorize genes that control DNA replication and repair 
using a simple model organism known as baker's yeast. It is a unique 
motorized micromanipulator specifically designed to separate single 
aspo-spores of yeast. It provides automatic micro-dissection and can 
``memorize'' the locations of each ascus so that it can shuttle between 
positions automatically.
    Docket Number: 06-067. Applicant: The University of Illinois, 
Champaign, IL. Instrument: Ti: Sapphire Lasers (2), Model TIS SF-077s. 
Manufacturer: Tekhnoscan, Russia. Intended Use: See notice at 72 FR 
20505, April 25, 2007. Reasons: The foreign instrument provides a means 
of studying the application of ultra-cold atom gases to quantum 
simulation. The lasers will be used to create an optical lattice, and 
part of a system for driving stimulated Raman transitions. One laser 
provides a linewidth less than 100 kHz and a drift rate < 50 MHz/hour, 
locked to an external reference cavity. The other provides < 5 MHz 
linewidth (without an external reference cavity) but passive stability 
equal to the other. Both are completely reconfigurable to the point of 
removing all optical elements from the cavity, running the cavity in a 
linear configuration, and inserting an electro-optic modulator. They 
employ phase-locking optics and electronics with low drift rates, since 
they will not be locked to a spectroscopic reference.
    Docket Number: 07-005. Applicant: Millersville University Physics 
Department, Millersville PA. Instrument: HeNe Laser Cavity Educational 
Kit, Model CA-1200. Manufacturer: MICOS GmbH, Germany. Intended Use: 
See notice at 72 FR 20505, April 25, 2007. Reasons: The foreign 
instrument provides a test bench in the lab portion of a course on 
optics for instruction in the physical principles and the components of 
a laser. Students will use the kit to build and reconfigure a He-NE 
Laser themselves and study the role of different optical elements in 
the lasing effect. Lab studies will include intensity distribution, 
Gaussian beam, polarization, divergence, coherence monochromatism and 
other properties of light.
    Docket Number: 07-007. Applicant: Illinois Institute of Technology, 
Chicago, IL. Instrument: High Temperature Nano Test System. 
Manufacturer: Micro Materials, Ltd., UK. Intended Use: See notice at 72 
FR 20505, April 25, 2007. Reasons: The foreign instrument provides 
examination of the mechanical properties of Ni-base alloys at elevated 
temperature. Nano-indentation tests can be conducted on specimens at a 
range of temperatures from room temperature to 750 C to assess the 
hardness and modulus of Ni-base alloys an also the constituent phases 
present in experimental Ni-base alloys and new high temperature 
materials. The instrument employs a unique horizontally designed 
pendulum indenter which enables insertion of a high temperature heating 
stage and tip heater as well as a protective heat shield to allow 
testing of specimens at temperatures in excess of 750 C. Other systems 
which use a vertical pendulum are currently limited to 400 C.
    Docket Number: 07-011. Applicant: State University of New York, 
Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794. Instrument: Low-level 
Beta Multicounter System. Manufacturer: Riso National Laboratory, 
Denmark. Intended Use: See notice at 72 FR 20505, April 25, 2007. 
Reasons: The foreign instrument provides measurement of emissions from 
very small quantities of naturally occurring, dissolved radioactive 
isotopes of thorium and lead in seawater which are attached to 
particulate matter in very small quantities. Samples of the isotopes 
are taken at various depths and serve as tracers of the movement of 
carbon to the deep, an important process for understanding climate 
change. The instrument is the only beta detector that meets the 
requirements of five simultaneous measurements with extremely low 
background count rates of 0.2 cpm. It is also portable and capable of 
field use in harsh environments. It also able to hold 22 mm diameter 
filter holders and is in standard use by many low level radiation 
laboratories around the world.
    Docket Number: 07-012. Applicant: University of Wisconsin, Madison, 
WI. Instrument: Real-time 3D Motion Capture System. Manufacturer: 
Phoenix Technologies, Inc., Canada. Intended Use: See notice at 72 FR 
20505, April 25, 2007. Reasons: The foreign instrument provides 
accurate measurement of limb movements of monkey subjects performing 
reach-to-grasp tasks. Electrical signals derived from individual brain 
cells are correlated with parameters of movement in order to determine 
how information is encoded in the signals that the brain uses to 
communicate with the muscles which is relevant to neuro-prosthetics, 
spinal chord injury, stroke and motor rehabilitation. The dimensions of 
the testing chamber require that the infrared position markers can 
operate at a minimum distance of 0.6 m. Other comparable systems 
require more than twice that distance. The Phoenix system also uses 
markers of much less diameter, which minimally interfere with natural 
limb movement.
    The capabilities of each of the foreign instruments described above 
are pertinent to each applicants intended purpose and we know of no 
other instrument or apparatus being manufactured in the United States 
which is of equivalent scientific value to any of the foreign 
instruments.

Faye Robinson,
Director, Statutory Import Program Staff, Import Administration.
[FR Doc. E7-9921 Filed 5-22-07; 8:45 am]
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