[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 148 (Wednesday, August 2, 2006)]
[Notices]
[Pages 43713-43714]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E6-12481]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Order No. 1470]


Approval of Expansion of Subzone 84C and of Expanded 
Manufacturing Authority (Crop Protection Products), E.I. du Pont de 
Nemours and Company, Inc., La Porte, 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 Port of Houston Authority, grantee of Foreign-Trade 
Zone 84, has applied to expand Subzone 84C, at the E.I. du Pont de 
Nemours and Company, Inc. (Du Pont) plant located at one existing site 
and one proposed site in La Porte, Texas, and to expand the scope of 
manufacturing authority under zone procedures for Subzone 84C to 
include additional finished products (crop protection products) (FTZ 
Docket 26-2005, filed 5/27/2005);
    Whereas, notice inviting public comment has been given in the 
Federal Register (70 FR 34446, 6/14/2005); and,
    Whereas, the Board adopts the findings and recommendations of the 
examiner's report, and finds that the requirements of the FTZ Act and 
the Board's regulations would be satisfied, and that approval of the 
application would be in the public interest;
    Now, therefore, the Board hereby orders:
    The application to expand Subzone 84C, including one additional 
site, and for expanded manufacturing authority related to crop 
protection products, as described in the application and Federal 
Register notice, is hereby approved subject to the FTZ Act and the 
Board's regulations, including Section 400.28.


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    Signed at Washington, DC, this 26th day of July 2006.
David M. Spooner,
Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Import Administration, Alternate 
Chairman, Foreign-Trade Zones Board.
    Attest:
Andrew McGilvray,
Acting Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. E6-12481 Filed 8-1-06; 8:45 am]
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