[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 246 (Tuesday, December 23, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Page 67043]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-33468]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board
[Order No. 942]


Grant of Authority for Subzone Status, JVC America, Inc. 
(Videotape Products), Tuscaloosa County, AL

    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, by an Act of Congress approved June 18, 1934, an Act ``To 
provide for the establishment * * * of foreign-trade zones in ports of 
entry of the United States, to expedite and encourage foreign commerce, 
and for other purposes,'' as amended (19 U.S.C. 81a-81u) (the Act), the 
Foreign-Trade Zones Board (the Board) is authorized to grant to 
qualified corporations the privilege of establishing foreign-trade 
zones in or adjacent to U.S. Customs ports of entry;
    Whereas, the Board's regulations (15 CFR part 400) provide for the 
establishment of special-purpose subzones when existing zone facilities 
cannot serve the specific use involved;
    Whereas, an application from the City of Birmingham, Alabama, 
grantee of Foreign-Trade Zone 98, for authority to establish special-
purpose subzone status at the videotape and videocassette manufacturing 
plant of JVC America, Inc., in Tuscaloosa County, Alabama, was filed by 
the Board on March 25, 1997, and notice inviting public comment was 
given in the Federal Register (FTZ Docket 23-97, 62 FR 17146, 4-9-97); 
and,
    Whereas, the Board adopts the findings and recommendations of the 
examiner's report, and finds that the requirements of the FTZ Act and 
the Board's regulations are satisfied, and that approval of the 
application is in the public interest;
    Now, therefore, the Board hereby grants authority for subzone 
status at the videotape and videocassette manufacturing plant of JVC 
America, Inc., located in Tuscaloosa County, Alabama (Subzone 98C), at 
the location described in the application, and subject to the FTZ Act 
and the Board's regulations, including Sec. 400.28.

    Signed at Washington, DC, this 15th day of December 1997.
Robert S. LaRussa,
Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Import Administration, Alternate 
Chairman, Foreign-Trade Zones Board.
    Attest:
John J. Da Ponte, Jr.,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 97-33468 Filed 12-22-97; 8:45 am]
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