[Federal Register Volume 74, Number 26 (Tuesday, February 10, 2009)]
[Notices]
[Page 6570]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E9-2649]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

Order No. 1603


Reorganization/Expansion of Foreign-Trade Zone 176, Rockford, 
Illinois, 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 Greater Rockford Airport Authority, grantee of 
Foreign-Trade Zone 176, submitted an application to the Board for 
authority to reorganize and expand FTZ 176-Site 1 to include additional 
acreage and Temporary Site 1A on a permanent basis, expand the zone to 
include five additional sites (Sites 8 - 12), and to formally delete 
existing Site 2 and Site 5 from the zone project within the Rockford 
Customs and Border Protection port of entry (FTZ Docket 31-2008, filed 
5/9/08);
    Whereas, notice inviting public comment was given in the Federal 
Register (73 FR 28429, 5/16/08) and the application has been processed 
pursuant to the FTZ Act and the Board's regulations; and,
    Whereas, the Board adopts the findings and recommendation 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 reorganize and expand FTZ 176 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 January 31, 2014, 
for Sites 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 where no activity has occurred under FTZ 
procedures before that date.
    Signed at Washington, DC, this 30th day of January 2009.

Ronald K. Lorentzen,
Acting Assistant Secretary of Commercefor Import Administration, 
Alternate Chairman, Foreign-Trade Zones Board.
    Attest:
Andrew McGilvray,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. E9-2649 Filed 2-9-09; 8:45 am]
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