[Federal Register Volume 72, Number 46 (Friday, March 9, 2007)]
[Notices]
[Pages 10642-10643]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E7-4287]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Order No. 1504]


Expansion of Foreign-Trade Zone 49; Newark, New Jersey

    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 Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, grantee of 
Foreign-Trade Zone 49, submitted an application to the Board for 
authority to expand FTZ 49 in the Newark area to include additional 
sites at the I-Port 12 industrial park (Site 7) in Carteret, the I-Port 
440 industrial park (Site 8) in Perth Amboy, the Port Reading Business 
Park (Site 9) in Woodbridge, and, the Port Elizabeth Business Park 
(Site 10) in Elizabeth, within the Newark/New York Customs and Border 
Protection port of entry (FTZ Docket 23-2006; filed 6/14/06);
    Whereas, notice inviting public comment was given in the Federal 
Register (71 FR 35611, 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 49 is approved, subject to the FTZ 
Act and

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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 7 through 10 that would 
terminate authority for the sites on March 31, 2014, for any of the 
sites that have not been activated under FTZ procedures before that 
date.

    Signed at Washington, DC this 28th day of February 2007.
David M. Spooner,
Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Import Administration, Alternate 
Chairman, Foreign-Trade Zones Board.
    Attest:
Andrew McGilvray,
Executive Secretary.
 [FR Doc. E7-4287 Filed 3-8-07; 8:45 am]
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