[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 69 (Wednesday, April 9, 2008)]
[Notices]
[Pages 19191-19192]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E8-7473]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

Order No. 1554


Grant of Authority for Subzone Status, MPM Silicones, LLC 
(Silicone-Based Products and Intermediaries), Waterford, New York

     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 Capital District Regional Planning Commission, grantee 
of Foreign-Trade Zone 121, has made application to the Board for 
authority to establish a special-purpose subzone at the silicone-based 
products and intermediaries manufacturing and warehousing facility of 
MPM Silicones, LLC located in Waterford, New York (FTZ Docket 4-2007, 
filed 2-2-07);
    Whereas, notice inviting public comment was given in the Federal 
Register (72 FR 6518, 2/12/07; 72 FR 16764, 4-5-07; 72 FR 24272, 5-2-
07; 72 FR 53989, 9-21-07) and a public hearing was held on 4-18-07; 
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 would be satisfied, and that approval of the 
application would be in the public interest if subject to the 
restrictions and limitations listed below;
    Now, therefore, the Board hereby grants authority for subzone 
status for activity related to silicone-based products and 
intermediaries manufacturing at the facility of MPM Silicones, LLC, 
located in Waterford, New York (Subzone 121C), as described in the 
application and Federal Register notice, and subject to the FTZ Act and 
the Board's regulations, including Section 400.28, and subject to the 
following restrictions and limitations:
    1. Silicon metal subject to an antidumping or countervailing duty 
order that is admitted into the subzone in foreign status must 
ultimately be re-exported (regardless of whether it has been 
manufactured into a downstream product).
    2. Admission of foreign-status silicon metal subject to an 
antidumping or countervailing duty order is limited to 10,000 metric 
tons per year.
    3. Approval is for an initial period of five-years, subject to 
extension upon review.

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    Signed at Washington, DC, this 28th day of March 2008.

David M. Spooner,
Assistant Secretary of Commercefor Import Administration, Alternate 
Chairman, Foreign-Trade Zones Board.
    Attest:
Andrew McGilvray,
 Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. E8-7473 Filed 4-8-08; 8:45 am]
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