[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 51 (Wednesday, March 17, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Page 12726]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-5829]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Foreign-Trade Zones Board
[Order No. 1666]
Expansion/Reorganization of Foreign-Trade Zone 149; Port
Freeport, TX
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, Port Freeport, grantee of Foreign-Trade Zone 149,
submitted an application to the Board for authority to expand FTZ 149
to include two sites in Fort Bend County, Texas, adjacent to the
Freeport Customs and Border Protection port of entry (FTZ Docket 69-
2008, filed 12/11/2008, amended 7/31/2009);
Whereas, notice inviting public comment has been given in the
Federal Register (73 FR 78289, 12/22/2008 and 74 FR 42050, 8/20/2009)
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 is in the
public interest;
Now, therefore, the Board hereby orders:
The application to expand FTZ 149 is approved, subject to the FTZ
Act and the Board's regulations, including Section 400.28, and to the
Board's standard 2,000-acre activation limit for the overall general-
purpose zone project, and further subject to a sunset provision that
would terminate authority on February 28, 2017 for Sites 11 and 12
where no activity has occurred under FTZ procedures before that date.
Signed at Washington, DC, February 23, 2010.
Ronald K. Lorentzen,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Import Administration, Alternate
Chairman, Foreign-Trade Zones Board.
[FR Doc. 2010-5829 Filed 3-16-10; 8:45 am]
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