[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 251 (Wednesday, December 31, 2008)]
[Notices]
[Page 80364]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E8-31169]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Order No. 1593]


Grant of Authority for Subzone Status, Hawker Beechcraft 
Corporation (Aircraft Manufacturing), Wichita and Salina, Kansas

    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 
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 Board of County Commissioners of Sedgwick County, 
grantee of Foreign-Trade Zone 161, has made application to the Board 
for authority to establish a special-purpose subzone at the aircraft 
manufacturing facilities of Hawker Beechcraft Corporation, located in 
Wichita and Salina, Kansas (FTZ Docket 24-2008, filed 4/17/08);
    Whereas, notice inviting public comment was given in the Federal 
Register (73 FR 21903-21904, 4/23/08); and,
    Whereas, the Board adopts the findings and recommendations of the 
examiner's report, and finds 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 authority for subzone 
status for activity related to aircraft manufacturing at the facilities 
of Hawker Beechcraft Corporation, located in Wichita and Salina, Kansas 
(Subzone 161C), as described in the application and Federal Register 
notice, and subject to the FTZ Act and the Board's regulations, 
including Section 400.28.
    Signed at Washington, D.C., this 19th day of December 2008.

David M. Spooner,
Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Import Administration, Alternate 
Chairman, Foreign-Trade Zones Board.
Attest:
Andrew McGilvray,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. E8-31169 Filed 12-30-08; 8:45 am]
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