[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 125 (Thursday, June 29, 2006)]
[Notices]
[Pages 37041-37042]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E6-10220]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

Order No. 1456


Expansion of Foreign-Trade Zone 68, El Paso, Texas

    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 City of El Paso, Texas, grantee of Foreign-Trade Zone 
68, submitted an application to the Board for authority to expand FTZ 
68-Site 1 to include additional acreage at the El Paso International 
Airport complex and to remove 35 acres from zone status at Site 2-Ivey 
Development/AAA Park in El Paso, Texas, within the El Paso Customs port 
of entry (FTZ Docket 59-2005; filed 11/29/05);
    Whereas, notice inviting public comment was given in the Federal 
Register (70 FR 73432, 12/12/05) 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 FTZ 68 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 general-purpose zone project.

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    Signed at Washington, DC, this 16th day of June 2006.

David M. Spooner,
Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Import Administration, Alternate 
Chairman, Foreign-Trade Zones Board.
    Attest:
Pierre V. Duy,
Acting Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. E6-10220 Filed 6-28-06; 8:45 am]
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