[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 75 (Wednesday, April 18, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Pages 19918-19919]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-9638]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Order No. 1153]


Approval for Expansion of Subzone 35B, Merck & Company, Inc., 
Plant (Pharmaceuticals), West Point, PA

    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 Philadelphia Regional Port Authority, grantee of FTZ 
35, has requested authority on behalf of Merck & Company, Inc. (Merck), 
to add capacity and to expand the scope of authority under zone 
procedures within Subzone 35B at the Merck plant in West Point, 
Pennsylvania (FTZ Docket 60-2000, filed 11/17/2000);
    Whereas, notice inviting public comment has been given in the 
Federal Register (65 FR 71298, 11/30/00);
    Whereas, pursuant to Section 400.32(b)(1) of the FTZ Board

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regulations (15 CFR 400), the Secretary of Commerce's delegate on the 
FTZ Board has the authority to act for the Board in making decisions 
regarding manufacturing activity within existing zones when the 
proposed activity is the same, in terms of products involved, to 
activity recently approved by the Board and similar in circumstances 
(15 CFR 400.32(b)(1)(i)); 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 add capacity and to expand the scope of 
authority under zone procedures within Subzone 35B on behalf of Merck & 
Company, Inc., is approved, subject to the FTZ 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.
[FR Doc. 01-9638 Filed 4-17-01; 8:45 am]
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