[Federal Register Volume 72, Number 72 (Monday, April 16, 2007)]
[Notices]
[Page 18960]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E7-7198]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Order No. 1502]


Grant of Authority, Establishment of a Foreign-Trade Zone, 
Counties of Lehigh and Northampton, Pennsylvania

    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 adopts the following Order:
    WHEREAS, the Foreign-Trade Zones Act provides for ''. . . the 
establishment . . . of foreign-trade zones in ports of entry of the 
United States, to expedite and encourage foreign commerce, and for 
other purposes,'' and authorizes the Foreign-Trade Zones Board to grant 
to qualified corporations the privilege of establishing foreign-trade 
zones in or adjacent to U.S. Customs and Border Protection ports of 
entry;
    WHEREAS, the Lehigh Valley Economic Development Corporation (the 
Grantee), a Pennsylvania non-profit agency, has made application to the 
Board (FTZ Docket 30-2006, filed 7/18/06), requesting the establishment 
of a foreign-trade zone at sites in Lehigh and Northampton Counties, 
Pennsylvania, adjacent to the Lehigh Valley Customs and Border 
Protection port of entry;
    WHEREAS, notice inviting public comment has been given in the 
Federal Register (71 FR 42800, 7/28/06), and the application was 
amended on September 25, 2006 (71 FR 59072, 10/6/06);
    WHEREAS, the Board adopts the findings and recommendations of the 
examiner's report, and finds that the requirements of the FTZ Act and 
the Board's regulations are satisfied, and that approval of the 
application, as amended, is in the public interest;
    NOW, THEREFORE, the Board hereby grants to the Grantee the 
privilege of establishing a foreign-trade zone, designated on the 
records of the Board as Foreign-Trade Zone No. 272, at the sites 
described in the application, as amended, and subject to the Act and 
the Board's regulations, including Section 400.28.
    Signed at Washington, DC, this 5th day of April 2007.

FOREIGN-TRADE ZONES BOARD
Carlos M. Gutierrez,
Secretary of Commerce, Chairman and Executive Officer.
    Attest:
Andrew McGilvray,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. E7-7198 Filed 4-13-07; 8:45 am]
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