[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 224 (Tuesday, November 21, 2006)]
[Notices]
[Page 67329]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E6-19665]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

Order No. 1489


Expansion of Foreign-Trade Zone 231, Stockton, California, 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 Stockton Port District, grantee of Foreign-Trade Zone 
231, submitted an application to the Board for authority to expand FTZ 
231-Site 2 to include additional acreage and to expand the zone to 
include additional sites in Stockton and Tracy, California, within and 
adjacent to the San Francisco/Oakland/Sacramento Customs port of entry 
(FTZ Docket 25-2006; filed 6/14/06);
    Whereas, notice inviting public comment was given in the Federal 
Register (71 FR 35610, 6/21/06) 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 231 is approved, subject to the 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 general-purpose zone project.
    Signed at Washington, DC, this 9th day of November 2006.

David M. Spooner,
Assistant Secretary of Commercefor Import Administration, Alternate 
Chairman, Foreign-Trade Zones Board
    Attest:
Pierre V. Duy,
Acting Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. E6-19665 Filed 11-20-06; 8:45 am]
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