[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 79 (Tuesday, April 25, 2006)]
[Notices]
[Page 23894]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E6-6218]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Order No. 1448]


Expansion of Foreign-Trade Zone 243, Victorville, California, 
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 Southern California Logistics Airport Authority, 
grantee of Foreign-Trade Zone 243, submitted an application to the 
Board for authority to expand FTZ 243 to include six additional sites 
in the cities of Industry, Whittier, Chino and Rialto, California, and 
to restore zone status to 11 acres at Site 1 (Southern California 
Logistics Airport) in Victorville, California, within and adjacent to 
the Victorville Customs user fee airport and the Los Angeles-Long Beach 
Customs port of entry (FTZ Docket 47-2004; filed 10/29/04; amended 7/
25/05);
    Whereas, notice inviting public comment was given in the Federal 
Register (69 FR 65580, 11/15/04) 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 243 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 general-purpose zone project, and further subject to an initial 
five-year time limit (to April 30, 2011).

    Signed at Washington, DC, this 14th day of April 2006.
David M. Spooner,
Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Import Administration, Alternate 
Chairman, Foreign-Trade Zones Board.
    Attest:
Dennis Puccinelli,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. E6-6218 Filed 4-24-06; 8:45 am]
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