[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 235 (Friday, December 5, 2008)]
[Notices]
[Page 74140]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E8-28859]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

Order No. 1588


Expansion of Foreign-Trade Zone 231 Stockton, California, Area

    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 Stockton Port District, grantee of Foreign-Trade Zone 
231, submitted an application to the Board for authority to expand its 
zone to include a site within the Opus Logistics Center-Stockton (Site 
8 - 468 acres) in Stockton, California, within the Sacramento Customs 
and Border Protection port of entry (FTZ Docket 14-2008, filed 2/25/
08);
    WHEREAS, notice inviting public comment was given in the Federal 
Register (73 FR 12949, 3/11/08) 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 FTZ 231 is approved, subject to the FTZ 
Act and the Board's regulations, including Section 400.28, subject to 
the Board's standard 2,000-acre activation limit for the overall 
general-purpose zone project, and further subject to a sunset provision 
that would terminate authority on November 30, 2013, if no activity has 
occurred under FTZ procedures before that date.
    Signed at Washington, DC, this 20\th\ day of November 2008.

David M. Spooner,
Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Import Administration,
Alternate Chairman, Foreign-Trade Zones Board,
    ATTEST:
Andrew McGilvray,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. E8-28859 Filed 12-4-08; 8:45 am]
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