[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 105 (Wednesday, June 2, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Pages 30782-30783]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-13206]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Order No. 1683]


Reorganization/Expansion of Foreign-Trade Zone 20; Hampton Roads, 
VA, 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 Virginia Port Authority, grantee of Foreign-Trade Zone 
20, submitted an application to the Board for authority to reorganize 
and expand its zone to modify and expand Site 3, to remove acreage from 
Site 8, to modify Site 9, and to add six new sites (proposed Sites 19-
24) in the Hampton Roads, Virginia, area within the Norfolk Customs and 
Border Protection port of entry (FTZ Docket 19-2009, filed 4/28/09);
    Whereas, notice inviting public comment was given in the Federal 
Register (74 FR 20927, 5/6/09) and the application has been processed 
pursuant to the FTZ Act and the Board's regulations; and,
    Whereas, the Board adopts the findings and recommendations 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, 8 and 9 and Sites 19, 21, 22, 23 and 24, is in the public 
interest;
    Now, therefore, the Board hereby orders:
    The application to reorganize and expand FTZ 20 is approved in part 
(with respect to Sites 3, 8 and 9 and Sites 19, 21, 22, 23 and 24), 
subject to the FTZ Act and the Board's regulations, including Section 
400.28, to the Board's

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standard 2,000-acre activation limit for the overall general-purpose 
zone project, and to sunset provisions that would terminate authority 
on May 31, 2013, for existing Sites 1-18 and 25 (including the 
additions to Sites 3 and 9) and on May 31, 2015, for Sites 19, 21, 22, 
23 and 24 where no activity has occurred under FTZ procedures before 
those dates.

    Signed at Washington, DC, this 21st day of May, 2010.
Ronald K. Lorentzen,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Import Administration, Alternate 
Chairman, Foreign-Trade Zones Board.
Andrew McGilvray,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2010-13206 Filed 6-1-10; 8:45 am]
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