23394 Federal Register / Vol. 74, No. 95 / Tuesday, May 19, 2009 / Notices 

Dated: May 13, 2009. 

Christopher Cassel, 

Acting Director, IA Subsidies Enforcement 

Office. 

[FR Doc. E9–11670 Filed 5–18–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3510–DS–S 

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 June 8, 

2009. Address written comments to 

Statutory Import Programs Staff, Room 

3720, U.S. Department of Commerce, 

Washington, D.C. 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: 09–014. Applicant: 

Miami University, 500 E. High Street, 

Oxford, OH 45056. Instrument: Electron 

Microscope. Manufacturer: JEOL, Japan. 

Intended Use: The instrument will be 

used to characterize materials such as 

minerals, nano-materials, metals, 

ceramics, semiconductors, catalysts, and 

biological materials. This instrument 

provides improved resolution and 

contrast that will increase the types of 

samples that can be analyzed. 

Justification for Duty-Free Entry: No 

instrument of the same general category 

is manufactured within the United 

States. Application accepted by 

Commissioner of Customs: April 6, 

2009. 

Docket Number: 09–018. Applicant: 

Texas A & M University, College 

Station, TX 77843–4458. Instrument: 

Electron Microscope. Manufacturer: FEI 

Company, Czech Republic. Intended 

Use: The instrument will be used to 

perform ultrastructural analysis of a 

variety of animal cells and tissues 

involved in research investigations and 

for more limited diagnostic purposes. 

The materials to be investigated will be 

fixed and embedded animal tissues and 

cells. Justification for Duty-Free Entry: 

No instrument of the same general 

category is manufactured within the 

United States. Application accepted by 

Commissioner of Customs: April 27, 

2009. 

Docket Number: 09–020. Applicant: 

Columbia University, Department of 

Biochemistry, 650 W. 168th St., New 

York, NY 10032. Instrument: Electron 

Microscope. Manufacturer: FEI 

Company, the Netherlands. Intended 

Use: The instrument will be used study 

in cell-free in vitro systems, the 

structure and binding constellations of 

macromolecules and their ligands 

engaged in complex processes in the 

cell, such as translation, transcription, 

splicing, etc. Justification for Duty-Free 

Entry: No instrument of the same 

general category is manufactured within 

the United States. Application accepted 

by Commissioner of Customs: April 24, 

2009. 

Dated: May 13, 2009. 

Christopher Cassel, 

Acting Director, IA Subsidies Enforcement 

Office. 

[FR Doc. E9–11676 Filed 5–18–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3510–DS–S 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

Foreign-Trade Zones Board 

[Docket 21–2009] 

Foreign-Trade Zone 124—Gramercy, 

LA, Application for Subzone, Excalibar 

Minerals LLC (Barite Milling), New 

Iberia, LA 

An application has been submitted to 

the Foreign-Trade Zones Board (the 

Board) by the Port of South Louisiana, 

grantee of Foreign-Trade Zone (FTZ) 

124, requesting special-purpose subzone 

status for the barite milling facility of 

Excalibar Minerals LLC (Excalibar), 

located in New Iberia, Louisiana. The 

application was submitted pursuant to 

the provisions of the Foreign-Trade 

Zones Act, as amended (19 U.S.C. 81a81u), and the regulations of the Board 

(15 CFR Part 400). It was formally filed 

on May 6, 2009. 

The Excalibar facility (20 employees, 

16 acres, 350,000 ton capacity for 

ground barite) is located at 4602 South 

Lewis Street, in New Iberia. The facility 

is used for activities related to the 

milling (heating, grinding, crushing), 

storage and distribution of ground 

barite, primarily for the U.S. market. 

The material that would be purchased 

from abroad (representing 

approximately 75 to 85 percent of the 

finished product’s value) is raw barite 

(HTSUS number 2511.10), dutiable at 

$1.25 per metric ton. 

FTZ procedures could exempt the 

company from customs duty payments 

on the foreign component used in 

export production. The company 

anticipates that less than 1 percent of 

the plant’s shipments will be exported. 

On its domestic sales, Excalibar would 

be able to choose the duty rate during 

customs entry procedures that applies to 

the ground barite (duty-free) for the 

foreign input noted above. FTZ 

designation would further allow 

Excalibar to realize logistical benefits 

through the use of weekly customs entry 

procedures, as well as savings from the 

elimination of duties on materials that 

become scrap/waste during 

manufacturing. The application 

indicates that the FTZ-related savings 

would help improve the facility’s 

international competitiveness. 

In accordance with the Board’s 

regulations, Christopher Kemp of the 

FTZ staff is designated examiner to 

investigate the application and report to 

the Board. 

Public comment is invited from 

interested parties. Submissions (original 

and 3 copies) shall be addressed to the 

Board’s Executive Secretary at the 

address listed below. The closing period 

for their receipt is July 20, 2009. 

Rebuttal comments in response to 

material submitted during the foregoing 

period may be submitted during the 

subsequent 15-day period (to August 3, 

2009). 

A copy of the application and 

accompanying exhibits will be available 

for public inspection at the Office of the 

Executive Secretary, Foreign-Trade 

Zones Board, Room 2111, U.S. 

Department of Commerce, 1401 

Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, 

DC 20230–0002, and in the ‘‘Reading 

Room’’ section of the Board’s Web site, 

which is accessible via http:// 

www.trade.gov/ftz. For further 

information, contact Christopher Kemp 

at Christopher_Kemp@ita.doc.gov or 

(202) 482–0862. 

Dated: May 6, 2009. 

Andrew McGilvray, 

Executive Secretary. 

[FR Doc. E9–11671 Filed 5–18–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

University of North Carolina at Charlotte, 

et al. 

Notice of Consolidated Decision on 

Applications for Duty-Free Entry of 

Electron Microscopes 

This is a decision consolidated pursuant 

to Section 6(c) of the Educational, 

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