[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 232 (Tuesday, December 3, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Page 71933]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-30626]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Order No. 1260]


Expansion of Foreign-Trade Zone 181; Akron/Canton, OH 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 Northeast Ohio Trade & Economic Consortium, grantee of 
Foreign-Trade Zone No. 181, submitted an application to the Board for 
authority to expand FTZ 181 in the Akron/Canton, Ohio area, within and 
adjacent to the Cleveland Customs port of entry (FTZ Docket 8-2002, 
filed 1/30/2002; amended 9/18/02 to withdraw the proposed Lorain site);
    Whereas, notice inviting public comment was given in the Federal 
Register (67 FR 6679, 2/13/2002) 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 181 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, and to a sunset provision that would terminate 
authority for each of the sites on December 31, 2007, except for those 
sites that are activated pursuant to 19 CFR part 146 of the U.S. 
Customs regulations at any time prior to the termination date.

    Signed at Washington, DC, this 21st day of November 2002.
Faryar Shirzad,
Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Import Administration, Alternate 
Chairman, Foreign-Trade Zones Board.
[FR Doc. 02-30626 Filed 12-2-02; 8:45 am]
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