[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 86 (Wednesday, May 5, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Pages 24583-24584]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-10618]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Order No. 1675]


Reorganization/Expansion of Foreign-Trade Zone 21

Charleston, South Carolina, Area

    Pursuant to its authority under the Foreign-Trade Zones Act of 
June 18, 1934, as amended (19 U.S.C. 81a-81u), the Foreign-Trade 
Zones Board (the Board) adopts the following Order:
    WHEREAS, the South Carolina State Ports Authority, grantee of 
Foreign-Trade Zone 21, submitted an application to the Board for 
authority to reorganize and expand its zone to delete Sites 3 and 10 in 
their entirety, remove acreage from Sites 5 and 7, and add eight new 
sites (proposed Sites 16-23) in the Charleston, South Carolina, area 
within and adjacent to the Charleston Customs and Border Protection 
port of entry (FTZ Docket 15-2009, filed 4/8/09);
    WHEREAS, notice inviting public comment was given in the Federal 
Register (74 FR 17452-17453, 4/15/09) and the application has been 
processed pursuant to the FTZ Act and the Board's regulations; and,
    WHEREAS, the Board adopts the findings and recommendation of the 
examiner's report, and finds that the requirements of the FTZ Act and 
Board's regulations are satisfied, and that the proposal, with respect 
to Sites 3, 5, 7 and 10 and Sites 16, 17, 18, 21, 22 and 23, is in the 
public interest;
    NOW, THEREFORE, the Board hereby orders:
    The application to reorganize and expand FTZ 21 is approved in part 
(with respect to Sites 3, 5, 7 and 10 and Sites 16, 17, 18, 21, 22 and 
23), subject to the FTZ Act and the Board's

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regulations, including Section 400.28, and to the Board's standard 
2,000-acre activation limit for the overall general-purpose zone 
project, to sunset provisions that would terminate authority on April 
30, 2013, for existing Sites 1-15 and 24 and on April 30, 2015, for 
Sites 16, 17, 18, 21 and 23 where no activity has occurred under FTZ 
procedures before those dates, and to a five-year time limit (to April 
30, 2015) for Site 22 (subject to extension upon review).
    Signed at Washington, DC, this 1\st\ day of April 2010.

Ronald K. Lorentzen,
Deputy Assistant Secretaryfor Import Administration Alternate 
ChairmanForeign-Trade Zones Board.
    ATTEST:
Andrew McGilvray,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2010-10618 Filed 5-4-10; 8:45 am]
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