31120 Federal Register / Vol. 83, No. 128 / Tuesday, July 3, 2018 / Notices 

Agenda 

Welcome and Introductions 

Discussion: Civil Rights Issues in 

Florida 

Public Comment 

Adjournment 

Dated: June 27, 2018. 

David Mussatt, 

Supervisory Chief, Regional Programs Unit. 

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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 23, 

2018. 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: 17–017. Applicant: 

University of Pittsburgh of the 

Commonwealth System of Higher 

Education, 116 Atwood Street, Suite 

201, Pittsburgh, PA 15260. Instrument: 

Photonic Professional GT System. 

Manufacturer: Nanoscribe, Germany. 

Intended Use: The instrument will be 

used to support the fabrication of 

devices comprised primarily of both 

commercially available and in house 

developed UV curable polymers. 

Biomaterials and other biopolymers that 

have been specifically designed to be 

cured using a radical polymerization 

process will also be investigated in this 

device. Any polymer or biomaterial that 

can be ablated using the wavelength and 

power available in the Nanoscribe 

system will also be used for subtractive 

manufacturing. Justification for DutyFree Entry: There are no instruments of 

the same general category manufactured 

in the United States. Application 

accepted by Commissioner of Customs: 

August 2, 2017. 

Docket Number: 18–001. Applicant: 

William March Rice University, 6100 

Main Street, Houston, TX 77005. 

Instrument: 3D-Discovery Bioprinter 

and Direct Write Electrospinner. 

Manufacturer: regenHU, Switzerland. 

Intended Use: The instrument will be 

used for a multitude of techniques 

across disciplines ranging from biology 

to materials science, chemical 

engineering and bioengineering. 

Techniques like thermoplastic and 

hydrogel extrusion, 3D printing, 2- 

component printing, cell-bioprinting, 

electrospinning/direct write 

electrospinning, drug/factor 

encapsulation. Justification for DutyFree Entry: There are no instruments of 

the same general category manufactured 

in the United States. Application 

accepted by Commissioner of Customs: 

February 28, 2018. 

Docket Number: 18–002. Applicant: 

Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road NE, 

Building #17, Room 5225, Atlanta, GA 

30333. Instrument: CelloScope Optical 

Screening Instrument. Manufacturer: 

BioSense Solutions ApS, Denmark. 

Intended Use: The instrument will be 

used for research use only to study 

several Gram-negative and Grampositive bacterial pathogens. Use of this 

optical screening instrument, will be 

developing and evaluating an automated 

antimicrobial susceptibility test for 

bacterial pathogens based on time-lapse 

imaging of cells incubating in broth 

microdilution drug panels. Experiments 

to be conducted include growth 

assessment of these bacterial pathogens 

in the presence and absence of clinically 

relevant antibiotics. The antibiotics 

selected for our studies are those 

recommended by the Clinical and 

Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI) for 

primary testing. The objectives of the 

investigations are to more rapidly 

determine antimicrobial susceptibility 

of bacterial pathogens. Currently, the 

gold-standard method for antimicrobial 

susceptibility testing requires 16–20 or 

24–48 hours, depending on the species. 

The techniques required to perform 

these experiments include inoculation 

of a testing drug panel with a bacterial 

suspension and assessing susceptibly by 

optical screening. The research 

conducted using this instrument may 

substantially reduce the time required to 

make an informed therapeutic decision. 

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: March 15, 

2018. 

Docket Number: 18–003. Applicant: 

University of Virginia, Physics 

Department, 382 McCormick Road, 

Charlottesville, VA 22903. Instrument: 

Superconducting Magnet System. 

Manufacturer: Cryogenic Ltd., United 

Kingdom. Intended Use: The instrument 

will be used to study the beta decay of 

neutrons. Neutrons are elementary 

constituents of any matter in our 

universe. The experiments require 

measuring the kinetic energies of 

electrons and protons, two of the 

particles that are produced in neutron 

decay. The Nab spectrometer is to 

extract the neutrino-electron correlation 

coefficient ‘‘a’’ and the Fierz term ‘‘b’’ 

which describes the dynamic properties 

of the decay particles; the results test 

our understanding of the Standard 

Model of Elementary Particle Physics. 

The Nab spectrometer, electrons and 

protons are guided by the magnetic 

field, produced by the magnet system 

that we are importing. Electrons and 

protons eventually reach detectors. The 

detectors allow us to determine the 

kinetic energies of both particles, 

respectively. 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 17, 

2018. 

Docket Number: 18–004. Applicant: 

University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 

Procurement Services, 1700 Y Street, 

Lincoln, NE 68588–0645. Instrument: 

Closed Cycle Cryogen Free Cryostat. 

Manufacturer: Autocue Systems, 

Germany. Intended Use: The instrument 

will be used to study the optoelectronic 

properties of novel atomically thin 

semiconductor materials such as metal 

chalcogenides, which are promising for 

application in energy conversion (for 

example solar cells) and micro-/ 

nanoelectronics. Leading-edge 

fundamental research on the 

optoelectronic properties of novel 

nanomaterials, with the goal of 

developing advanced materials to 

support the needs for new energy 

conversion processes and nextgeneration electronics and computing. 

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 17, 

2018. 

Dated: June 27, 2018. 

Gregory W. Campbell, 

Director, Subsidies Enforcement, Enforcement 

and Compliance. 

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