[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 160 (Thursday, August 17, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Page 50179]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-20987]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Order No. 1113]


Expansion of Foreign-Trade Zone 20 Norfolk-Newport News, 
Virginia, Area

    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 Virginia Port Authority, grantee of Foreign-Trade Zone 
20 (Norfolk-Newport News, Virginia, area), submitted an application to 
the Board for authority to expand FTZ 20 to include sites in Accomack 
County, Virginia, at the Goddard Space Flight Center-Wallops Flight 
Facility (Site 14) and the Accomack Airport Industrial Park (Site 15), 
adjacent to the Norfolk-Newport News Customs port of entry (FTZ Docket 
44-98; filed 9/15/98; amended on 6/2/99 and 7/24/00);
    Whereas, notice inviting public comment was given in the Federal 
Register (63 FR 51338, 9/25/98) 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, as amended, 
is in the public interest;
    Now, Therefore, the Board hereby orders:
    The application to expand FTZ 20, as amended, is approved, subject 
to the Act and the Board's regulations, including Section 400.28, and 
further subject to the Board's standard 2,000-acre activation limit for 
the overall zone project.

    Signed at Washington, DC, this 28th day of July 2000.
Troy H. Cribb,
Acting Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Import Administration, 
Alternate Chairman, Foreign-Trade Zones Board.
Dennis Puccinelli,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 00-20987 Filed 8-16-00; 8:45 am]
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