Notice2024-12170
Fermi Research Alliance, et al.; Notice of Decision on Applicationfor Duty-Free Entry of Scientific Instruments
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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 108 (Tuesday, June 4, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 47897-47898]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-12170]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
Fermi Research Alliance, et al.; Notice of Decision on
Applicationfor 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
March 22, 2024, 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, 89FR20426-27, (Notice). We received no
public comments regarding the instruments in docket numbers: 24-001;
24-002; 24-005; 24-007. We did receive comments, from SRI
International, regarding the instruments in docket numbers: 24-003; 24-
004; 24-006; and 24-008.
Comments: In its comments regarding the instruments in docket
numbers: 24-003; 24-004; 24-006; and 24-008, SRI International claims
that currently, no domestic manufacturer offers an off-the-shelf or
custom-made item of equivalent scientific value. Decision: Approved. We
know of no instrument of equivalent scientific value to the foreign
instrument described below, for such purposes as this is intended to be
used, that was being manufactured in the United States at the time of
order.
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.
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.
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
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pumped environment to improve the evaporatively cooled gas temperatures
due to suppression of hole-induced heating.
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.
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.
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 narrowlinewidth 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.
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.
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.
Dated: May 29, 2024.
Gregory W. Campbell,
Director, Subsidies and Economic Analysts, Enforcement and Compliance.
[FR Doc. 2024-12170 Filed 6-3-24; 8:45 am]
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