[Federal Register Volume 72, Number 169 (Friday, August 31, 2007)]
[Notices]
[Pages 50325-50326]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E7-17328]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Order No. 1521]


Application for Subzone Status Not Approved

Sharp Electronics Corporation, Huntington Beach, California

    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 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 Board's regulations (15 CFR Part 400) provide for the 
establishment of special-purpose subzones when existing zone facilities 
cannot serve the specific use involved, and when the activity results 
in a significant public benefit and is in the public interest;
    Whereas, the Board of Harbor Commissioners of the City of Los 
Angeles, grantee of FTZ 202, has made application to the Board for 
authority to establish special-purpose subzone status at the office and 
consumer electronics/home products/solar panels warehousing and 
distribution facility of Sharp Electronics Corporation, located in 
Huntington Beach, California (FTZ Docket 8-2006, filed 02-27-06);
    Whereas, notice inviting public comment has been given in the 
Federal Register (71 FR 12676, 3/13/2006); and,
    Whereas, the Board adopts the findings and recommendations of the 
examiner's report, and finds that the requirements of the FTZ Act and 
the Board's regulations have not been

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satisfied because the applicant did not provide information requested 
by the Board;
    Now, therefore, the Board hereby does not approve the application 
for subzone status at the office and consumer electronics/home 
products/solar panels warehousing and distribution facility of Sharp 
Electronics Corporation, located in Huntington Beach, California.
    Signed at Washington, DC, this 23rd day of August 2007.

David M. Spooner,
Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Import Administration, Alternate 
Chairman Foreign-Trade Zones Board.
    Attest:

Andrew McGilvray,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. E7-17328 Filed 8-30-07; 8:45 am]
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