[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 219 (Monday, November 15, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Page 61820]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-29747]


-----------------------------------------------------------------------

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board
[Order No. 1064]


Approval for Subzone Expansion (Shipbuilding) Foreign-Trade 
Subzone 124H, Bollinger Shipyards Lockport, LLC; Lockport, LA

    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 South Louisiana Port Commission, grantee of FTZ 124, 
has requested authority on behalf of Bollinger Shipyards Lockport, LLC 
(Bollinger), operator of Subzone 124H at the Bollinger shipyard located 
in Lockport, Louisiana, to expand Subzone 124H to include four new 
sites in Larose (LaFourche Parish) and Amelia (St. Mary's Parish), 
Louisiana (FTZ Doc. 17-99, filed 4-29-99);
    Whereas, notice inviting public comment was given in the Federal 
Register (64 FR 25476, 5-12-99);
    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 would be satisfied, and that approval of the 
application would be in the public interest if approval were subject to 
the standard shipyard restriction on foreign steel mill products;
    Now therefore, the Board hereby approves the request subject to the 
FTZ Act and the Board's regulations, including Sec. 400.28, and further 
subject to the restrictions listed below.
    1. Any foreign steel mill products admitted to the subzone, 
including plate, angles, shapes, channels, rolled steel stock, bars, 
pipes and tubes, not incorporated into merchandise otherwise 
classified, and which is used in manufacturing, shall be subject to 
Customs duties in accordance with applicable law, unless the Executive 
Secretary determines that the same item is not then being produced by a 
domestic steel mill.
    2. In addition to the annual report, Bollinger Shipyards Lockport, 
LLC, shall advise the Board's Executive Secretary (Sec. 400.28(a)(3)) 
as to significant new contracts with appropriate information concerning 
foreign purchases otherwise dutiable, so that the Board may consider 
whether any foreign dutiable items are being imported for manufacturing 
in the subzone primarily because of subzone status and whether the 
Board should consider requiring Customs duties to be paid on such 
items.

    Signed at Washington, DC, this 4th day of November 1999.
Robert S. LaRussa,
Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Import Administration, Alternate 
Chairman, Foreign-Trade Zones Board.

    Attest:
Dennis Puccinelli,
Acting Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 99-29747 Filed 11-12-99; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 3510-DS-P