[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 73 (Monday, April 16, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Pages 19422-19423]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-9373]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Order No. 1159]


Expansion of Foreign-Trade Zone 154, Baton Rouge, LA, Area

    Pursuant to its authority under the Foreign-Trade Zones Act of June 
18, 1934, as amended (19 U.S.C. 81a-81u),

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the Foreign-Trade Zones Board (the Board) adopts the following Order:
    Whereas, the Greater Baton Rouge Port Commission, grantee of 
Foreign-Trade Zone 154, submitted an application to the Board for 
authority to reorganize FTZ 154 by expanding existing Site 1 to include 
the port's entire deep-water complex; removing all of the existing Site 
2; adding a new Site 2 in its place (Baton Rouge Metropolitan Airport); 
and, reducing the size of Site 3, Inland Rivers Marine Terminal 
(formerly Sun Plus Industrial Park), within the Baton Rouge Customs 
port of entry area (FTZ Docket 43-2000; filed 7/26/00);
    Whereas, notice inviting public comment was given in the Federal 
Register (65 FR 47375, 8/2/00) 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 
the 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 154 is approved, subject to the Act 
and the Board's regulations, including Section 400.28.

    Signed at Washington, DC, this 5th day of April 2001.
Timothy J. Hauser,
Acting Under Secretary for International Trade, Alternate Chairman, 
Foreign-Trade Zones Board.
Attest:
Dennis Puccinelli,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 01-9373 Filed 4-13-01; 8:45 am]
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