[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 192 (Wednesday, October 2, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 51405-51406]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-25244]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Foreign-Trade Zones Board
[Docket 69-96]


Foreign-Trade Zone 147--Reading, PA Request for Manufacturing 
Authority Precision Components Corporation (Inc.) (Nuclear Fuel 
Containment Vessels)

    An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones Board 
(the Board) by the Foreign-Trade Zone Corporation of Southeastern 
Pennsylvania, grantee of FTZ 147, pursuant to Sec. 400.28(a)(2) of the 
Board's regulations (15 CFR Part 400), requesting authority on behalf 
of Precision Components Corporation (Inc.) (PCC), to manufacture 
nuclear fuel containment vessels under zone procedures within FTZ 147. 
It was formally filed on September 24, 1996.
    The PPC plant (400,000 sq.ft. on 12 acres) is located at 500 
Lincoln Street within a proposed site of FTZ 147 in the International 
Trade District of York, in the City of York, Pennsylvania (Docket 3-96, 
61 FR 2487, 1-26-96). The PPC plant (448 employees) is used to 
manufacture nuclear fuel containment vessels (HTSUS# 7309.00.0090, duty 
rate-1.6%) for the transport and storage of spent radioactive nuclear 
fuel. Components sourced from abroad (from 28 to 70% of finished 
product value) include forgings and plates of iron or steel, which are 
classified under the same HTSUS category as the finished nuclear fuel 
containment vessels. The application indicates that over 50 percent of 
the plant's shipments are exported.
    Zone procedures would exempt PPC from Customs duty payments on the 
foreign components used in export production. On its domestic sales, 
PPC would be able to defer duty payments on the foreign components 
until the finished vessels are processed for Customs entry, and scrap 
and waste foreign status material would be exempt from Customs duties. 
The request indicates that the savings from zone procedures would help 
improve the plant's international competitiveness.
    In accordance with the Board's regulations, a member of the FTZ 
Staff has been designated examiner to investigate the application and 
report to the Board.
    Public comment on the application is invited from interested 
parties. Submissions (original and three copies) shall be addressed to 
the Board's Executive Secretary at the address below. The closing 
period for their receipt is December 2, 1996. Rebuttal comments in 
response to material submitted during the foregoing period may be 
submitted during the subsequent 15-day period (to December 16, 1996).
    A copy of the application and the accompanying exhibits will be 
available for public inspection at the following location: Office of 
the Executive Secretary, Foreign-Trade Zones Board, U.S. Department of 
Commerce, Room 3716, 14th Street & Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., 
Washington, DC 20230.


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    Dated: September 25, 1996.
John J. Da Ponte, Jr.,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 96-25244 Filed 10-1-96; 8:45 am]
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