[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 175 (Wednesday, September 10, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Pages 53346-53347]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-23071]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Order No. 1293]


Approval for Expansion of Facilities and Manufacturing Authority 
at Subzone 61H; Baxter Healthcare Corporation Plant (Pharmaceuticals), 
Guayama, PR

    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 Puerto Rico Exports Development Corporation, grantee 
of Foreign-Trade Zone 61, has requested authority on behalf of Baxter 
Healthcare Corporation (Baxter), to expand the subzone boundaries and 
to expand the scope of manufacturing authority in terms of products and 
capacity under zone procedures within Subzone 61H at the Baxter 
pharmaceutical manufacturing plant in Guayama, Puerto Rico (FTZ Docket 
35-2002, filed 9/10/2002);
    Whereas, notice inviting public comment has been given in the 
Federal Register (67 FR 58584, 9/17/02);
    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 
manufacturing authority under zone procedures within Subzone 61H at the 
pharmaceutical manufacturing plant of Baxter Healthcare Corporation in 
Guayama, Puerto Rico, is approved, subject to the FTZ Act and the 
Board's regulations, including Section 400.28.


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    Signed at Washington, DC, this 25th day of August 2003.
Jeffrey May,
Acting Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Import Administration, 
Alternate Chairman, Foreign-Trade Zones Board.
[FR Doc. 03-23071 Filed 9-9-03; 8:45 am]
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