[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 153 (Thursday, August 8, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Page 51535]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-20074]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Order No. 1240]


Expansion of Foreign-Trade Zone 57, Charlotte, NC, 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 North Carolina Department of Commerce, grantee of 
Foreign-Trade Zone 57, submitted an application to the Board for 
authority to expand FTZ status to eight additional sites (2,045 acres) 
in the Counties of Burke, Caldwell, Alexander and Catawba in North 
Carolina (Sites 4-11), adjacent to the Charlotte Customs port of entry 
(FTZ Docket 30-2001; filed 
7/3/01; amended 4/29/02);
    Whereas, notice inviting public comment was given in the Federal 
Register (66 FR 36250, 7/11/01) and the application, as amended, 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, as amended, to expand FTZ 57 is approved, subject 
to the Act and the Board's regulations, including Section 400.28, and 
subject to the Board's standard 2,000-acre activation limit for the 
overall zone project, and further subject to a sunset provision that 
would terminate authority for the proposed sites on September 1, 2009, 
unless the sites are activated under FTZ procedures.

    Signed at Washington, DC, this 29th day of July 2002.
Faryar Shirzad,
Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Import Administration, Alternate 
Chairman, Foreign-Trade Zones Board.
[FR Doc. 02-20074 Filed 8-7-02; 8:45 am]
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