Notice2022-20209
For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST), et. al; Notice of Decision on Application for Duty-Free Entry of Scientific Instruments
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September 19, 2022
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[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 180 (Monday, September 19, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 57173-57174]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2022-20209]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology
(FIRST), et. al; Notice of Decision on Application for 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
August 16, 2022, 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 Application(s) for Duty-Free
Entry of Scientific Instruments, 87 FR 50289-90, August 16, 2022
(Notice). We received no public comments.
Docket Number: 22-001. Applicant: For Inspiration and Recognition
of Science and Technology (FIRST), 200 Bedford Street, Manchester, NH
03101. Instrument: Dual Band 1.17 Gbps Access Point. Manufacturer: Open
Mesh Inc., China. Intended Use: According to the applicant, the FIRST
Robotics Competition (FRC) (EIN 22-2990908) requires wireless radio
communication between student teams' driver controls and their home-
build robots. It is crucial that FRC be able to manage the wireless
traffic (for safety and team experience reasons). FRC mandates a
specific radio (Datto's OM5P-AN, obsolete, or OM5P-AC models, both are
dual band 1.17 Gbps access points) with custom firmware which optimizes
the radio for the competition use case. This transaction is to secure
the radios needed for educational robotic kits for the 2020 season
(4,400) air-freighted to meet 2020 season deadlines) and the 2021
season (4,336 shipped via ocean). The applicant certifies that there
will not be any use of the foreign instrument by or for the primary
benefit of any commercial (for-profit) entity with 5 years after entry
of the foreign instrument into the United States customs territory.
Docket Number: 22-002. Applicant: University of California,
Riverside, 900 University Avenue, Riverside, CA 92521. Instrument:
Customs Pulsed Laser Deposit & Molecular-Beam Epitaxy (PLD/MBE)
deposition system. Manufacturer: BEIJING PERFECT TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.,
Beijing, China. Intended Use: According to the applicant, the
instrument is intended to be used for research purposes for
experimental condenses matter physics, spin transport, quantum
transport, and spin-dependent physics, graphene, 2D layers,
heterostructures, and nanoscale devices, magnetic insulators,
heterostructures and interfaces, energy related materials science
research.
Docket Number: 22-003. Applicant: University of Chicago Argonne
LLC, Operator of Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 South Cass Avenue,
Lemont, IL (U.S.A.), 60439-4873. Instrument: High Heat Load Exit Mask
Assemblies. Manufacturer: Strumenti Scientific CINEL S.R.L., Italy.
Intended Use: According to the applicant, these components will be used
to assemble the new high heat load front ends for the Advanced Photon
Source upgrade. The front end consists of a series of components that
connect the storage ring to the user beamline to deliver a photon beam
that will be used as a three-dimensional X-ray microscope for
experimental purposes. The materials/phenomena that are studied vary
widely from material properties analysis, protein mapping for
pharmaceutical companies, X-ray imaging and chemical
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composition determination. These components will be used exclusively
for scientific research for a minimum of 5 years at Argonne National
Laboratory. The properties of the materials studied include but are not
limited to grain structure, grain boundary and interstitial defects,
and morphology. These properties are not only studied at ambient
environments but also under high pressure, temperature, stress and
strain.
Docket Number: 22-004. Applicant: UChicago Argonne LLC, Operatory
of Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 South Cass Avenue, Lemont, IL
(U.S.A.) 60439-4873. Instrument: High Energy Monochromators.
Manufacturer: Strumenti Scientific CINEL S.R.L., Italy. Intended Use:
According to the applicant, these instruments will be used on new
beamlines for the Advanced Photon Source upgrade. The monochromators
are bandpass optical filters, that allow only a narrow band of
wavelengths of X-rays to pass. This is critical for the needs of the
beamline's experimental purposes. The materials/phenomena that are
studied vary widely from material properties analysis, protein mapping
for pharmaceutical companies, X-ray imaging and chemical composition
determination. These components will be used exclusively for scientific
research for a minimum of 5 years at Argonne National Laboratory. The
properties of the materials studied include but are not limited to
grain structure, grain boundary and interstitial defects, and
morphology. These properties are not only studied at ambient
environments but also under high pressure, temperature, stress and
strain.
Docket Number: 22-005. Applicant: Cornell University, School of
Civil and Environmental Engineering, Hollister Hall (2046), Room #220,
527 College Avenue, Ithaca, NY 14853-3501, USA. Instrument: Semi-
automatic single cell sorter. Manufacturer: Hooke Instruments, Ltd.,
P.R. China. Intended Use: According to the applicant, the research will
involve identifying and obtaining novel single cells based on metabolic
traits that cannot be identified with simple label/staining, and in
addition, we would like to obtain live cells for further culturing and
investigation. We are interested in novel and non-culturable organisms/
cells that possess combined traits of desire that can be detected using
Raman micro-spectroscopy fingerprinting. This unique label-free and
ejection-based cell sorter is the only one known that will enable the
applicant to eject the single live cell (pre-identified with non-
invasive, non-damaging Raman) in complicated bioprocess/environmental
(soil water) samples into collectors and then allow us to study them.
Dated: September 14, 2022.
Richard Herring,
Director, Subsidies Enforcement, Enforcement and Compliance.
[FR Doc. 2022-20209 Filed 9-16-22; 8:45 am]
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