[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 90 (Monday, May 11, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Page 25819]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-12332]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board
[Order No. 976]


Expansion of Foreign-Trade Zone 98, Birmingham, 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, an application from the City of Birmingham, Alabama, 
grantee of Foreign-Trade Zone 98, for authority to expand FTZ 98 to 
include five additional sites in Birmingham, Alabama, within the 
Birmingham Customs port of entry area, was filed by the Board on April 
29, 1997 (FTZ Docket 39-97, 62 FR 26772, 5/15/97; amended, 2/16/98, 
withdrawing a sixth proposed site for the Pizitz/McRae Warehouse);
    Whereas, notice inviting public comment was given in Federal 
Register 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 98, as amended, is approved, subject 
to the Act and the Board's regulations, including Section 400.28.

    Signed at Washington, DC, this 28th day of April 1998.
Robert S. LaRussa,
Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Import Administration, Alternate 
Chairman, Foreign-Trade Zones Board.
Dennis Puccinelli,
Acting Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 98-12332 Filed 5-8-98; 8:45 am]
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