[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 159 (Thursday, August 17, 2006)]
[Notices]
[Page 47483]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E6-13599]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

Order No. 1459


Grant of Authority, Establishment of a Foreign-Trade Zone, 
Counties of Carroll and Jo-Daviess, Illinois

    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 Zones Act provides for A. . . the 
establishment . . . of foreign-trade zones in ports of entry of the 
United States, to expedite and encourage foreign commerce, and for 
other purposes,@ and authorizes the Foreign-Trade Zones Board to grant 
to qualified corporations the privilege of establishing foreign-trade 
zones in or adjacent to U.S. Customs ports of entry;
    Whereas, the Jo-Carroll Foreign Trade Zone Board (the Grantee), a 
joint-county entity of the Counties of Carroll and Jo-Daviess, 
Illinois, has made application to the Board (FTZ Docket 56-2005, filed 
11/9/05), requesting the establishment of a foreign-trade zone at a 
site in both counties, adjacent to the Davenport, Iowa/Moline and Rock 
Island, Illinois, Customs port of entry;
    Whereas, notice inviting public comment has been given in the 
Federal Register (70 FR 69936, 11/18/05); 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 are satisfied, and that approval of the 
application is in the public interest;
    Now, therefore, the Board hereby grants to the Grantee the 
privilege of establishing a foreign-trade zone, designated on the 
records of the Board as Foreign-Trade Zone No. 271, at the site 
described in the application, and 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.
    Signed at Washington, DC, this 31st day of July 2006.

FOREIGN-TRADE ZONES BOARD
Carlos M. Gutierrez,
Secretary of Commerce, Chairman and Executive Officer.
    Attest:
Andrew McGilvray,
Acting Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. E6-13599 Filed 8-16-06; 8:45 am]
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