[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 167 (Tuesday, August 29, 2006)]
[Notices]
[Page 51184]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E6-14337]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Order No. 1474]


Expansion of Foreign-Trade Zone 22, Chicago, Illinois, 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 Illinois International Port District, grantee of 
Foreign-Trade Zone 22, submitted an application to the Board for 
authority to expand FTZ 22 to: include a site (142 acres) at the 
ProLogis Park 80 (Site 8) in Morris, a site (12 acres) at the Eagle 
Global Logisitcs facility (Site 9) in Elk Grove Village, a site (43 
acres) at the Bolingbrook Distribution Center (Site 10) in Bolingbrook, 
and a site (157 acres) at the Heartland Corporate Center (Site 11) in 
Shorewood; restore zone status to 41 acres removed from Site 5 
(CenterPoint Intermodal Center); and, grant zone status to Temporary 
Site 7 (O'Hare Express North Business Park) on a permanent basis in the 
Chicago, Illinois, area, within the Chicago Customs port of entry (FTZ 
Docket 49-2005; filed 10/14/05);
    Whereas, notice inviting public comment was given in the Federal 
Register (70 FR 61429, 10/24/05), 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 22 is approved, subject to the FTZ 
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 zone project and a sunset provision for Sites 8 through 11 that 
would terminate authority for the sites on September 30, 2011, for any 
of the sites that have not been activated under FTZ procedures prior to 
that date.
    Signed at Washington, DC, this 21st day of August 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. E6-14337 Filed 8-28-06; 8:45 am]
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