[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 180 (Monday, September 18, 2006)]
[Notices]
[Page 54610]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E6-15477]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Order No. 1477]


Expansion of Foreign-Trade Zone 9, Honolulu, Hawaii

    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 State of Hawaii, grantee of Foreign-Trade Zone 9, 
submitted an application to the Board for authority to expand FTZ 9 to 
include a site in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, adjacent to the Kona Customs and 
Border Protection port of entry (FTZ Docket 5-2006, filed 2/15/2006);
    WHEREAS, notice inviting public comment has been given in the 
Federal Register (71 FR 9518, 2/24/2006); 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 approval of the application 
is in the public interest;
    NOW, THEREFORE, the Board hereby orders:
    The application to expand FTZ 9 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.

    Signed at Washington, DC, this 6\th\ day of September 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. E6-15477 Filed 9-15-06; 8:45 am]
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