Notice2024-06131
Fermi Research Alliance, et al., Application(s) for Duty-Free Entry of Scientific Instruments
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March 22, 2024
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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 57 (Friday, March 22, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 20426-20427]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-06131]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
Fermi Research Alliance, 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 April 11, 2024. 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 <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#83c7eae2edede6adcbe2edf0ebe2f4c3f7f1e2e7e6ade4ecf5"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="591d303837373c771138372a31382e192d2b383d3c773e362f">[email protected]</span></a>.
Docket Number: 24-001. Applicant: Fermi Research Alliance, P.O. Box
500, Batavia, IL 60510. Instrument: Helium Refrigeration/Liquification
Plant and accompanying accessories. Manufacturer: Air Liquide, France.
Intended Use: The PIP II linear accelerator will provide unparalleled
achievement in particle acceleration. These accelerated particles will
be born at the FNAL site in Batavia, IL and accelerated via the PIP II
linear accelerator through the Earth approximately 900 miles west into
the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) located in Lead, SD, to
discover whether neutrinos violate the fundamental matter-antimatter
symmetry of physics. The design, research, development, and results
from the construction and use of the PIP II Linear Accelerator will be
the subject of high energy physics and physics engineering courses at
dozens of domestic and international institutions of higher education.
No specific course titles are available at this time, but the
information will be extensively discussed and challenged at college and
university classrooms for years to come. 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 19, 2023.
Docket Number: 24-002. Applicant: Washington University in St.
Louis, One Brookings Drive, St. Louis, MO 63130-4899. Instrument: Two-
Dimensional Material Metallographic Microscopic Transfer System.
Manufacturer: HIGH HOPE ZHONGDING CORPORATION, China. Intended Use: The
instrument is intended to be used for all general two-dimensional (2D)
materials like graphene, molybdenum sulfide, black phosphorus, 2D
magnetic et al., to perform a comprehensive set of optical experiments
aimed at elucidating optical and magnetic properties of superlattices
based on 2D materials et al. The main objective is to create new
quantum materials as designed, to study exotic quantum states, which is
crucial for the evolution of optical, electronic and information
technologies of the future. This transfer stage is particularly
developed for cutting-edge technology in the fabrication and
manipulation of two-dimensional materials, which is crucial for
researchers in these fields. 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: January 3, 2024.
Docket Number: 24-003. Applicant: University of Colorado JILA
Department, Campus Box 440 UCB, JILA Building, Room S/175, Boulder, CO
80309. Instrument: Narrow Linewidth Laser. Manufacturer: Shanghai
Precilasers Technology Co, Ltd., China. Intended Use: The instrument
will be intended to be used for Quantum simulation using Lithium atoms
in a cryogenic environment. Ultracold Lithium atoms will be used for
studies of the Fermi-Hubbard model, which are an ideal platform for
such studies due to their broadly tunable interactions with Feshbach
resonances. Observation will determine whether low temperature phases
of the Fermi-Hubbard model can be revealed by performing our
experiments within a cryogenically pumped environment to improve the
evaporatively cooled gas temperatures due to suppression of hole-
induced heating. 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: January 17, 2024.
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Docket Number: 24-004. Applicant: University of Colorado JILA
Department, 1900 Colorado Avenue, Campus Box 440 UCB, Boulder, CO
80309. Instrument: Fiber Laser. Manufacturer: Shanghai Precilasers
Technology Co., China. Intended Use: The instrument is intended to be
used for research that will be conducted on barely interacting
Strontium (Sr) atoms confined and cooled by lasers down to extremely
cold temperatures, below 1 microkelvin. The frequency of transition to
a highly stable state in Sr atoms can be used as the reference of the
unit of time. To realize the atomic clock operation, precision quantum
spectroscopy experiment will be performed to measure the transition
frequency. The laser claimed for the duty-exemption is an 813 nm fiber
laser module with a single-mode continuous-wave (CW) output power of 10
W, which will be used for setting up the 813 nm magic-wavelength
optical lattice for our experiment. The Sr atoms are thus confined in
each lattice node while showing minimally perturbed transition
frequency. The research is conducted by graduated students at the
University of Colorado as field training in their degree programs.
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: January
23, 2024.
Docket Number: 24-005. Applicant: University of Florida, P.O. Box
118525, Gainesville, FL 32611. Instrument: UniPrep2 for determining
hydrogen isotopic composition. Manufacturer: EuroVectro, Italy.
Intended Use: The instrument Uniprep2 is intended to be used in the
measurement of hydrogen isotope composition of complex organic samples
to control hydrogen-isotope exchange and for sample drying and vapor
equilibration. The properties of the materials studied are that they
have exchangeable hydrogen and residual moisture contamination. This
instrument helps to address those complications that can have biased
results. 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:
January 25, 2024.
Docket Number: 24-006. Applicant: University of Colorado JILA
Department, Campus Box 440 UCB, JILA Building, Room S/175, Boulder, CO
80309. Instrument: Narrow linewidth laser@2923nm. Manufacturer:
Shanghai Precilasers Technology Co., Ltd, China. Intended Use: The
instrument is intended to be used to study continuous superradiant
lasing from Stontium atoms. The lasing will induced in part using the
lasing system purchased. The laser will be used to perform experiments
that will demonstrate (for the first time anywhere) continuous
superradiant lasing. The laser will be used to cool the atoms to a few
millionths of a degree above absolute zero. To achieve these goals, we
require a narrow linewidth laser source (<50kHz) with high output power
(>400mW) at 2923 nm for laser cooling and trapping Strontium atoms
using the internal levels 3P2 to 3D3. 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: January 32, 2024.
Docket Number: 24-007. Applicant: University of Massachusetts
Amherst, Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, 120 Governors
Drive, Amherst, MA 01003. Instrument: Food Elasticity Measurement
System. Manufacturer: Changfu Technology (Beijing) Company, Ltd.,
China. Intended Use: The instrument is intended to be used for rubber
elasticity--The system allows for measuring properties such as elastic
modulus, stress-strain relationship, and resilience of rubber
materials; Food texture temperature response and elasticity, with the
temperature control unit, the system enables studying how food textures
change in elasticity and firmness with temperature variations; and
Polymer glass thermal analysis--the system's thermal analysis
capabilities facilitate the examination of heat conduction properties
in polymer glasses, including thermal conductivity and heat transfer
behavior. 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: January 31, 2024.
Docket Number: 24-008. Applicant: Harvard University, Department of
Physics, 17 Oxford Street, Jefferson Laboratory, Cambridge, MA 02138.
Instrument: (1) 703nm single frequency fiber laser, (1) 1080nm single-
frequency fiber laser. Manufacturer: Shanghai Precilaser Technology,
Co., Ltd., China. Intended Use: The instruments are intended to be used
in support of the Advanced Cold Molecule Electron Electric Dipole
Moment Experiment (ACME EDM experiment), a collaborative physics
experiment now between Harvard University, Northwestern University, and
University of Chicago. The goal of the ACME project is to shed light on
the reasons for why there is more matter than antimatter in the
universe through the measurement of properties of the Thorium-232
Monoxide molecules. 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: February 7, 2024.
Dated: March 18, 2024.
Gregory W. Campbell,
Director, Subsidies and Economic Analysis, Enforcement and Compliance.
[FR Doc. 2024-06131 Filed 3-21-24; 8:45 am]
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