Notice2024-16409
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, et al.; Application(s) for Duty-Free Entry of Scientific Instruments
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July 25, 2024
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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 143 (Thursday, July 25, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 60354-60355]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-16409]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 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 August 14, 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#23674a424d4d460d6b424d504b42546357514247460d444c55"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="2d69444c43434803654c435e454c5a6d595f4c4948034a425b">[email protected]</span></a>.
Docket Number: 24-010. Applicant: Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02114. Instrument:
Fiber Laser. China. Manufacturer: PreciLasers, China. Intended Use:
According to the applicant, the instrument is intended to be used for
Potassium 40 atoms that are fermionic alkali atoms; their alkali
electronic structure makes them straight-forward to trap and manipulate
using lasers. The potassium 40 atoms will first be cooled
sympathetically by sodium 23 atoms, then transferred into a series of
optical traps, which will use the lasers ordered from PreciLasers. The
final optical trap will be a 2D square optical lattice, where
additional optical potentials and magnetic fields will be applied, and
the response of the atoms observed through a microscope. 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: March 20,
2024.
Docket Number: 24-012. Applicant: The University of Texas at
Austin, BEG--JJ Pickle Research Campus, 10100 Burnet Road, Building
130, Austin, TX 78758. Instrument: Ocean Alpha SL20-Autonomous Survey
Boat. Manufacturer: Ocean Alpha Group Ltd., China. Intended Use:
According to the applicant, the instrument is intended to be used as an
unmanned surface vehicle (USV) that is designed to survey the depths of
inland waters where it is not accessible for UT Austin staff. USV will
have complimentary use of the in-house airborne lidar system (Lecia
Chiroptera-5) where lidar derived depths require verification. UT
Austin staff will be able to deploy the USV from a shoreline, and
control it remotely, with safety. 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: April 18, 2024.
Docket Number: 24-017. Applicant: State University of New York at
Stony Brook, 100 Nicolls Road, 230 Admin Building, Stony Brook, NY
11794. Instrument: 556 nm high power, narrow linewidth laser.
Manufacturer: Shanghai Precilasers Technology Co., Ltd., China.
Intended Use: According to the applicant, the instrument is intended to
be used in a quantum optics apparatus using Ytterbium atoms in an
ultrahigh vacuum environment. The experiment will laser cool and trap
single Ytterbium atoms and interface them with single photons in an
optical cavity. The importance is the long-lived clock states of
Ytterbium atoms, as well as the hyperfine ground states, both of which
are excellent to use as qubits in a quantum device and store quantum
information for a long time. 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: May 22, 2024.
Docket Number: 24-018. Applicant: Harvard University, 17 Oxford
Street, Cambridge, MA 02138. Instrument: Single Frequency Fiber Laser.
Manufacturer: Shanghai Precilasers Technology Co., Ltd., China.
Intended Use: According to the applicant, the instrument is intended to
be used to explore methods of taking full control of the internal and
external degrees of freedom of single diatomic molecules
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(calcium monofluoride, CaF) for various quantum applications. The
interest is in quantum simulation of lattice-spin models using CaF
molecules trapped in an optical tweezer array. To load CaF molecules
into an optical tweezer array, they must be first laser slowed and
laser cooled to very low temperature and high density. The laser
cooling transition used here is one of the only two desired strong
electronic transitions in CaF molecules that possesses a diagonal
Frank-Condon factor which supports scattering many photons with
reasonable number of repump lasers. This laser system will be used to
perform the above work in a research laboratory in the Department of
Physics at Harvard University. The research work enabled by this system
is part of the training of graduate students, undergraduate students,
and postdoctoral research fellows. 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: June 4, 2024.
Docket Number: 24-019. Applicant: Harvard University, Department of
Physics, 60 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138. Instrument: Fiber
Laser. Manufacturer: SHANGHAI PRECILASERS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., China.
Intended Use: According to the applicant, the instrument is intended to
be used for Ytterbium (Yb) atom's dipolar interaction. When Yb atoms
excite their Rydberg states, there will be a strong dipolar interaction
between the atoms. This interaction is also long-range. The main
techniques used will be (a) ultra-high vacuum techniques and (b) laser
stabilization techniques.The instrument will be used to educate
undergraduate and graduate students. 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: June 12, 2024.
Dated: July 22, 2024.
Gregory W. Campbell,
Director, Subsidies and Economic Analysis, Enforcement and Compliance.
[FR Doc. 2024-16409 Filed 7-24-24; 8:45 am]
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