Notice: University of Arkansas; Notice of Decision on Applications for 
Duty-Free Entry of Scientific Instruments

Federal Register: March 4, 2010 (Volume 75, Number 42)              
                  Page 9868

Agency:  DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
         International Trade Administration


    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). 
Related records can be viewed between 8:30 a.m. and 5 p.m. in Room 
3720, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th and Constitution Ave., NW., 
Washington, DC.
    Comments: None received. Decision: Approved. We know of no 
instruments of equivalent scientific value to the foreign instruments 
described below, for such purposes as this is intended to be used, that 
was being manufactured in the United States at the time of its order.
    Docket Number: 09-068. Applicant: University of Arkansas, 
Fayetteville, AK 72071. Instrument: Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging 
Microscope. Manufacturer: PicoQuant Photonics, Germany. Intended Use: 
See notice at 75 FR 3895, January 25, 2010.
    Reasons: The instrument must be able to perform using lasers with 
both continuous wave (CW) and pulsed mode. The use of picoseconds 
pulsed lasers is necessary to measure fluorescence lifetime. The use of 
CW lasers, so that the fluorophores will be continuously excited, is 
necessary to measure fluorescence intensity. The driver that controls 
the laser head provides user-selectable pulsed repetition rates. This 
instrument is unique in that it is capable of pulsed interleaved 
excitation (PIE)--Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer (FRET) and of 
allowing repetition rates to be continuously varied down to the 200 kHz 
range. Furthermore, the instrument is compatible with atomic force 
microscopy by using objective scanning mode rather than sample scanning 
mode so that the sample-scanning Atomic Force Microscope (AFM) can be 
added to the microscope in a future upgrade.
    We know of no Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging Microscopes being 
manufactured in the United States at the time of order of this 
instrument.

    Dated: February 26, 2010.
Christopher Cassel,
Director, Subsidies Enforcement Office, Import Administration.
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