[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 53 (Monday, March 21, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Page 13449]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 05-5533]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Order No. 1378]


Expansion of Foreign-Trade Zone 158 Vicksburg/Jackson, MI

    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 Vicksburg/Jackson Foreign-Trade Zone, Inc., grantee of 
Foreign-Trade Zone 158, submitted an application to the Board for 
authority to expand FTZ 158 to include eight sites (Sites 10-17) in Lee 
County, Mississippi, adjacent to the Memphis, Tennessee, Customs port 
of entry and to restore zone status to 124 acres at Site 2 (Jackson 
International Airport Complex) in Jackson, Mississippi, within the 
Jackson Customs port of entry (FTZ Docket 30-2004; filed 7/28/04);
    Whereas, notice inviting public comment was given in the Federal 
Register (69 FR 47865, 8/6/04) 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 
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 158 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 March 31, 2012, unless the sites 
are activated under FTZ procedures.

    Signed in Washington, DC, this 8th day of March, 2005.
Joseph A. Spetrini,
Acting Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Import Administration, 
Alternate Chairman, Foreign-Trade Zones Board.
    Attest:
Dennis Puccinelli,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 05-5533 Filed 3-18-05; 8:45 am]
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