[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 88 (Tuesday, May 6, 2008)]
[Notices]
[Page 24939]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E8-9976]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

Order No. 1551


Grant of Authority; Establishment of a Foreign-Trade Zone, West 
Memphis, Arkansas

    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 City of West Memphis, Arkansas Public Facilities Board 
(the Grantee), an Arkansas public board, has made application to the 
Board (FTZ Docket 11-2007, filed 3/14/07), requesting the establishment 
of a foreign-trade zone at a site in West Memphis, Arkansas, adjacent 
to the Memphis Customs and Border Protection port of entry;
    WHEREAS, notice inviting public comment has been given in the 
Federal Register (72 FR 13743, 3/23/07); 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 are satisfied, and that approval of the 
application 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. 273, at the site 
described in the application, and subject to the Act and the Board's 
regulations, including Section 400.28.

    Signed at Washington, DC, this 15\th\ day of April 2008.

FOREIGN-TRADE ZONES BOARD
Carols M. Gutierrez,
Secretary of Commerce Chairman and Executive Officer.
    Attest:
Andrew McGilvray,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. E8-9976 Filed 5-5-08; 8:45 am]
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