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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 17 (Tuesday, January 28, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 8261-8262]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2025-01792]

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

Arizona State University, et al.; 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 February 18, 2025. Address 
written comments to Statutory Import Programs Staff, Room 41006, U.S. 
Department of Commerce, Washington, DC 20230. Please also email a copy 
of those comments to [email protected].
    Docket Number: 24-028. Applicant: Arizona State University, 1711 S 
Rural Road, Tempe, AZ 85281. Instrument: Ultra High Pressure Multi-
Anvil apparatus with DIA module. Manufacturer: Max Voggenreiter GmbH, 
Germany. Intended Use: The instrument is intended to be used to enable 
materials to be processed under a much wider range of pressure and 
temperature than currently available in the United States. Materials 
subjected to extreme pressure (and temperature) undergo significant 
changes in shape, bonding and atomic-scale structure. The goal of the 
FORCE Mid-Scale Research Instrumentation Project is to establish a 
Facility for High Pressure Research located at Arizona State University 
(ASU), but accessible to researchers throughout the U.S., and the rest 
of the World, through the acquisition and implementation of highly 
specialized high-pressure instrumentation. Justification for Duty-Free 
Entry: According to the applicant, there are no instruments of the same 
general category manufactured in the United States. Application 
accepted by Commissioner of Customs: August 15, 2024.
    Docket Number: 24-034. Applicant: University of Colorado JILA 
Department, Campus Box 440, UCB, JILA Building, Room S/175, Boulder, CO 
80309. Instrument: Thulium-doped fiber laser. Manufacturer: Shanghai 
Precilasers Technology Co., Ltd., China. Intended Use: According to the 
applicant, the instrument is intended to be used with the purchase of a 
laser with a center wavelength of 502.88 nm and 1 watt of output power. 
This laser will couple certain vibrational and electronic states of the 
molecule YO, which is the system under study in our lab. Currently, we 
use a 649 nm laser (also from Precilasers) to couple a different set of 
levels. Integrating this laser into our experiment, we expect a 
significant enhancement in the number of molecules we can trap enabling 
new scientific goals. Justification for Duty-Free Entry: According to 
the applicant, there are no instruments of the same general category 
manufactured in the United States. Application accepted by Commissioner 
of Customs: October 8, 2024.
    Docket Number: 24-035. Applicant: University of Colorado JILA 
Department, Campus Box 440 UCB, JILA Building, Room S/175, Boulder, CO 
80309. Instrument: Soft X-ray scientific CMOS camera. Manufacturer: 
Fuzhou Tucsen Photonics, Ltd., China. Intended Use: According to the 
applicant, the instrument is intended to be used as a low-dose soft X-
ray ptychographic imaging, for biological samples, which can benefit 
from an imaging sensor with high frame rates, low read out noise and 
high quantum efficiency. Our current generation tabletop soft X-ray 
source is limited to low flux, further adding to the need for a high 
sensitivity X-ray camera. Most of our current cameras utilize backside 
illuminated CCD technology, which is somewhat limited in all of those 
categories. Justification for Duty-Free Entry: According to the 
applicant, there are no instruments of the same general category 
manufactured in the United States. Application accepted by Commissioner 
of Customs: July 23, 2024.
    Docket Number: 24-036. Applicant: Cornell University, Clark Hall, 
142 Sciences Drive, Room 272, Ithaca, NY 14853-2501. Instrument: Narrow 
Linewidth Fiber Laser. Manufacturer: Shanghai Precilasers Technology 
Company, Ltd., China. Intended Use: The instrument is intended to be 
used for the trapping and controlling chains of singly ionized barium 
atoms. The materials to be investigated are quantum information aspects 
associated with the internal level structure of the atoms and their 
quantum mechanical motion. Studying the efficiency of quantum 
algorithms using trapped ion systems and utilizing trapped ion systems 
as precision probes for search of new physics. Graduate students in the 
Katz Lab will use the lasers to assemble the trapped ion setup, gaining 
advanced knowledge in optics and quantum information processing. 
Justification for Duty-Free Entry: According to the

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applicant, there are no instruments of the same general category 
manufactured in the United States. Application accepted by Commissioner 
of Customs: October 22, 2024.
    Docket Number: 24-037. Applicant: Tulane University, 6823 St. 
Charles Avenue, New Orleans, LA 70118. Instrument: Multi-collector high 
resolution inductively-coupled plasma mass spectrometer with collision 
cell. Manufacturer: Nu Instruments, United Kingdom. Intended Use: The 
instrument is intended to be used to enhance the research capabilities 
of the Earth and Environmental Sciences department. Currently planned 
experiments include using thallium isotopes and selenium isotopes to 
study past ocean oxygen variations from rock samples, strontium and 
calcium isotopes to investigate calcium carbonate saturation states, 
and boron isotopes to reconstruct past ocean acidity from corals. These 
analyses will provide important insights of past climate change and 
geochemical cycles of various elements. This instrument maybe used for 
demonstration purposes only for high level analytical chemistry and 
geochemistry classes. The goal of this course is to introduce the use 
of stable and radioactive isotopes as tools to trace the movement of 
air, water, and sediments through the atmosphere, hydrosphere, 
biosphere, and lithosphere. Justification for Duty-Free Entry: 
According to the applicant, there are no instruments of the same 
general category manufactured in the United States. Application 
accepted by Commissioner of Customs: October 22, 2024.
    Docket Number: 24-038. Applicant: Harvard University, 17 Oxford 
Street, Cambridge, MA 01238. Instrument: Narrow linewidth lasers with 
accompanying accessories (2). Manufacturer: Shanghai Precilasers 
Technology Co., Ltd., China. Intended Use: The instrument is intended 
to be used for research focusing on using ultracold Strontium 
monohydroxide (SrOH) molecules for precision measurements of physics 
beyond the Standard Model, including the electron Electric Dipole 
Moment (eEDM) and dark matter. To conduct these precision measurements, 
the SrOH molecules must first be laser-slowed and laser-cooled to 
extremely low temperatures and high densities. A high-power, single-
frequency 688 nm laser system from Shanghai Precilasers will be used to 
cool the SrOH molecules inside a magneto-optical trap (MOT). This 
process requires precise addressing of a transition with MHz precision 
and a high photon scattering rate for eRective trapping. Justification 
for Duty-Free Entry: According to the applicant, there are no 
instruments of the same general category manufactured in the United 
States. Application accepted by Commissioner of Customs: November 13, 
2024.
    Docket Number: 24-039. Applicant: University of Chicago, High Bay 
Research Building, 5602 S Maryland, Chicago, IL 60637. Instrument: 
Telescope Mirror Test Stand. Manufacturer: Carpenteria Colombo 
Ferruccio SRL, Italy. Intended Use: The instrument is intended to be 
used to study the thermal and gravitational deformation of a 5.5 meter 
diameter, monolithic aluminum mirror which serves as the primary 
reflecting mirror on a telescope designed to study primordial 
gravitational waves. The objectives are to characterize the deformation 
of the mirror under different thermal gradients and changing elevation 
angles to allow development of algorithms to correct the optical 
images. Justification for Duty-Free Entry: According to the applicant, 
there are no instruments of the same general category manufactured in 
the United States. Application accepted by Commissioner of Customs: 
August 27, 2024.
    Docket Number: 24-040. Applicant: University of California, Santa 
Barbara, 2509 Broida Hall, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9530. Instrument: 
Low Noise Laser Amplifier. Manufacturer: Shanghai Precilaser Technology 
Co., Ltd., China. Intended Use: The low noise laser amplifier at 1064 
nm will be used in a cold atom experiment at University of California, 
Santa Barbara, for opCcal trapping and manipulaCon of ultracold 
potassium-39 atoms. It will be seeded by our own 500 mW 1064 laser and 
will produce 100 W output power. Potassium-39 atoms at low temperature 
will be loaded into the opCcal traps created by the laser amplifier. 
Combining with acousto-opCcal modulators, we will be able to alter the 
quantum state of the atoms in the opCcal potenCals, and perform 
experiments about quantum interacCve dynamics and other quantum 
simulaCons. Justification for Duty-Free Entry: According to the 
applicant, there are no instruments of the same general category 
manufactured in the United States. Application accepted by Commissioner 
of Customs: December 4, 2024.

    Dated: January 22, 2025.
Gregory W. Campbell,
Director, Subsidies and Economic Analysis, Enforcement and Compliance.
[FR Doc. 2025-01792 Filed 1-27-25; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 3510-DS-P
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