Notice2025-17901
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory et al.; Notice of Decision on Application for Duty-Free Entry of Scientific Instruments
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September 16, 2025
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 177 (Tuesday, September 16, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 44643-44644]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-17901]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory 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 15, 2025, 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, 90 FR 39377, August 15, 2025. We
received no public comments.
Comments: None received. 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: 25-024. Applicant: Lawrence Berkeley National
Laboratory, One Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, CA 94720. Instrument: Helium
Liquefaction Plant. Manufacturer: Air Liquide Advanced Technologies,
France. Intended Use: The instrument is intended to enhance the testing
capabilities for high-current, large-stored-energy superconducting
magnets through reliable, efficient, and high-capacity cryogenic
support.
Docket Number: 25-025. Applicant: Stanford University, 450 Jane
Stanford Way, Stanford, CA 94305. Instrument: Ultrafast Electron
Diffraction (UED) with Radiofrequency Compression. Manufacturer: e-Ray
Scientific, Canada. Intended Use: The instrument is intended to study
how various materials such as magnets, metals, and insulators change
their structure after being hit by short laser pulses, exploring
interactions among electrons and atoms within these materials, and
observing their rapid responses in detail.
Docket Number: 25-026. Applicant: Stanford University, 450 Jane
Stanford Way, Stanford, CA 94305. Instrument: Coherent Astrella Laser
Amplifier System. Manufacturer: Coherent, United Kingdom. Intended Use:
The instrument is intended to investigate how a wide range of
crystalline solids, including metals, magnets, and insulators respond
to the illumination of intense light pulses.
Docket Number: 25-027. Applicant: Trustees of Indiana University,
107 S Indiana Ave., Bloomington, IN 47405. Instrument: High-Precision
Multi-Channel Voltage Supply. Manufacturer: ISEG HV, Germany. Intended
Use: The instrument is intended to study an array of trapped atomic
ions which must be confined using precision voltages applied to
electrodes of the ion trap and to construct a state-of-the-art quantum
simulation device.
Docket Number: 25-030. Applicant: California Institute of
Technology, 1200 E California Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91125. Instrument:
Intra-cavity doubled, low noise, high-power narrow linewidth VECSEL
laser at 460.862 nm wavelength and 1.5W power. Manufacturer: Vexlum
Ltd., Finland. Intended Use: The instrument is intended to use
ytterbium and strontium atoms trapped in optical tweezer arrays to
realize a programmable optical clock platform which will be used to
study how quantum-enhancement metrology can be realized through large-
scale entangled states.
Docket Number: 25-031. Applicant: Trustees of Purdue University,
2550 Northwestern Ave., Suite 1100, West Lafayette, IN 47906.
Instrument: Unitree Humanoid Robot. Manufacturer: HangZhou YuShu
Technology Co., Ltd., China. Intended Use: The instrument is intended
to develop and deploy task-oriented generative AI modules to enable
advanced, fine-grained and precise motion control, and real-time
reasoning in multi-humanoid robot systems; develop a generative AI-
powered real-time collaborative and communication framework for multi-
human multi-humanoid robot interaction; and design a scalable and
adaptive human-robot interface to effectively support both human-in-
the-loop and human-on-the-loop decision making.
Docket Number: 25-033. Applicant: University of South Florida, 4202
E Fowler Ave., Tampa, FL 33620. Instrument: Miniature Two Photon
Microscope. Manufacturer: Nanjing Transcend Vivoscope Bio-Technology
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Co., Ltd., China. Intended Use: The instrument is intended to record
fluorescent signals in specific populations of neuronal or non-neuronal
cells in mice brains and to develop the principles regarding how these
brain cells encode and/or regulate behaviors of mice.
Docket Number: 25-035. Applicant: UChicago Argonne LLC, 9700 South
Cass Avenue, Lemont, Illinois 60439. Instrument: Detector Manipulation
System. Manufacturer: JJ X-Ray A/S, Denmark. Intended Use: The
instrument is intended to be used to accurately position detectors over
a large motion range with high stability. The system will be used for
operations at the Advanced Photon Source (APS), a third-generation
synchrotron light source that produces very bright and concentrated x-
ray beams used for imaging in material science and biomedical
applications. The instrument will further the understanding of
different materials and material properties, and aid in the development
of new materials.
Dated: September 12, 2025.
Tyler O'Daniel,
Acting Director, Subsidies Enforcement Office, Enforcement and
Compliance.
[FR Doc. 2025-17901 Filed 9-15-25; 8:45 am]
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