[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 208 (Monday, October 27, 2008)]
[Notices]
[Pages 63675-63676]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E8-25580]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Order No. 1583]


Expansion of Foreign-Trade Zone 38; Spartanburg County, SC

    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 South Carolina State Ports Authority, grantee of 
Foreign-Trade Zone 38, submitted an application to the Board for 
authority to expand its zone to include five additional sites (684 
acres total) located at the Riverbend Business Center in Spartanburg 
(Site 8--88 acres), at the Corporate Center I-85 and the Bryant 
Business Center in Spartanburg (Site 9--207 acres), at the Interchange 
Commerce Center in Spartanburg (Site 10--334 acres), at the Caliber 
Ridge Industrial Park in Greer (Site 11--51 acres), and at Industrial 
Warehousing in Duncan (Site 12--4 acres), and to reorganize its zone by 
restoring zone status to 19 acres within Site 3 in Duncan, granting 
zone status on a permanent basis to 19 acres at Temporary Site T-1 in 
Duncan (to become Site 7), and making permanent the current temporary 
location of Site 1 at the Global Trade Center in Greenville, within the 
Greenville-Spartanburg Customs and Border Protection port of entry (FTZ 
Docket 53-2007, filed 12/20/07);
    Whereas, notice inviting public comment was given in the Federal 
Register (73 FR 1319, 01/08/08) and the application has been processed 
pursuant to the FTZ Act and the Board's regulations; and,
    Whereas, the Board adopts the findings and recommendations of the 
examiner's report, and finds that the requirements of the FTZ Act and 
Board's regulations are satisfied, and that the proposal is in the 
public interest;
    Now, therefore, the Board hereby orders:
    The application to expand and reorganize FTZ 38 is approved, 
subject to the FTZ Act and the Board's regulations, including Section 
400.28, subject to the Board's 2,000-acre activation limit for the 
overall general-purpose zone project, and further subject to a sunset 
provision that would terminate authority on October 31, 2013 for sites 
8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 where no activity has occurred under FTZ procedures 
before that date.


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    Signed at Washington, DC, this 16th day of October, 2008.
David M. Spooner,
Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Import Administration, Alternate 
Chairman, Foreign-Trade Zones Board.
    Attest:
Andrew McGilvray,
Executive Secretary.
 [FR Doc. E8-25580 Filed 10-24-08; 8:45 am]
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