[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 168 (Wednesday, August 30, 2006)]
[Notices]
[Pages 51572-51573]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E6-14476]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board


Scope Clarification Request--Foreign-Trade Subzone 122K (Alumina 
Production) Sherwin Alumina Company--Gregory, TX

    A request for clarification of scope has been submitted to the 
Foreign-Trade Zones Board (the Board) by Sherwin Alumina Company 
(Sherwin), operator of Foreign-Trade Subzone 122K. A grant of authority 
for Sherwin's subzone was issued on December 30, 1988, for the 
manufacture of alumina and aluminum hydrate. In its original 
application, Sherwin indicated that its foreign-sourced input would be 
bauxite, imported duty-free under subheading 2606.00 of the Harmonized 
Tariff Schedule of the United States (HTSUS), to be used in the 
production of alumina and aluminum hydrate.
    Sherwin now seeks clarification as to whether its scope includes 
authority to further refine 24,500 metric tons of the bauxite into 
smaller particles of aluminum hydrate than is currently being produced. 
There will be no increase in imports of bauxite used in the refining 
process nor in total production of alumina at the Sherwin plant as a 
result of the new manufacturing activity.
    Public comment is invited from interested parties. Submissions 
shall be addressed to the Board's Executive Secretary at the address 
listed below. The closing period for their receipt is September 29, 
2006. A copy of the request is available for public inspection at the 
Office of the Executive Secretary, Foreign-Trade Zones Board, U.S. 
Department of Commerce, Room 1115, 1401 Constitution Ave., NW., 
Washington, DC 20230.


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    Dated: August 23, 2006.
Andrew McGilvray,
Acting Executive Secretary.
 [FR Doc. E6-14476 Filed 8-29-06; 8:45 am]
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