[Federal Register Volume 72, Number 247 (Thursday, December 27, 2007)]
[Notices]
[Pages 73314-73315]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E7-25008]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Docket 50-2007]


Foreign-Trade Zone 155--Calhoun and Victoria Counties, TX; 
Application for Expansion

    An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones (FTZ) 
Board (the Board) by the Calhoun-Victoria FTZ, Inc., grantee of FTZ 
155, requesting authority to expand its zone in the Calhoun and 
Victoria Counties, Texas, area, adjacent to the Port Lavaca--Point 
Comfort CBP port of entry. The application was submitted pursuant to 
the provisions of the Foreign-Trade Zones Act, as amended (19 U.S.C. 
81a-81u), and the regulations of the Board (15 CFR part 400). It was 
formally filed on December 14, 2007.
    FTZ 155 was approved on October 24, 1988 (Board Order 398, 53 FR 
44510, 11/03/88). The general-purpose zone currently consists of six 
sites (1,234 acres total) in Calhoun and Victoria Counties, Texas. The 
applicant is now requesting authority to expand the zone to include an 
additional site in Calhoun and Victoria Counties: Proposed Site 7 (11 
acres)--natural gas storage site at the Markham salt dome caverns 
located at Farm Road 1468, Markham, Texas. No specific manufacturing 
requests are being made at this time. Such requests would be made to 
the Board on a case-by-case basis.
    In accordance with the Board's regulations, a member of the FTZ 
Staff has been designated examiner to investigate the application and 
report to the Board.
    Public comment on the application is invited from interested 
parties. Submissions (original and 3 copies) shall be addressed to the 
Board's Executive Secretary at the address below. The closing period 
for their receipt is February 25, 2008. Rebuttal comments in response 
to material

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submitted during the foregoing period may be submitted during the 
subsequent 15-day period (to March 11, 2008).
    A copy of the application and accompanying exhibits will be 
available for public inspection at each of the following locations: 
U.S. Export Assistance Center, 15600 John F. Kennedy Blvd., Suite 530, 
Houston, Texas 77032 and the Office of the Executive Secretary, 
Foreign-Trade Zones Board, Room 2111, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 
Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20230.
    For further information, contact Kathleen Boyce at 202-482-1346 or 
[email protected].

    Dated: December 14, 2007.
Andrew McGilvray,
Executive Secretary .
 [FR Doc. E7-25008 Filed 12-26-07; 8:45 am]
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