[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 222 (Friday, November 18, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Page 69937]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 05-22925]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Order No. 1417]


Expansion/Reorganization of FTZ 147, Reading, Pennsylvania, 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 adopts the following Order:
    Whereas, the Foreign-Trade Zone Corporation of Southeastern 
Pennsylvania, grantee of Foreign-Trade Zone 147, submitted an 
application to the Board for authority to reorganize and expand FTZ 147 
to modify existing Sites 4 and 5 and to include nine additional sites 
in south eastern and south central Pennsylvania, adjacent to the 
Harrisburg Customs port of entry (FTZ Docket 12-2005; filed 3/1/05);
    Whereas, notice inviting public comment was given in the Federal 
Register (70 FR 11611, 3/9/05), 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/reorganize FTZ 147 is approved, subject 
to the Act and the Board's regulations, including Section 400.28, and 
subject to the 2,000-acre activation limit.
    Signed at Washington, DC, this 3rd day of November 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. 05-22925 Filed 11-17-05; 8:45 am]
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