[Federal Register Volume 74, Number 38 (Friday, February 27, 2009)]
[Notices]
[Page 8903]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E9-4236]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

Order No. 1605


Expansion of Foreign-Trade Zone 272, Lehigh and Northampton 
Counties, Pennsylvania

     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 Lehigh Valley Economic Development Corporation, 
grantee of Foreign-Trade Zone 272, submitted an application to the 
Board for authority to expand its zone to include an additional site 
(Site 8 163 acres) at the ProLogis Park 33, which would include 
Temporary Site T-1 on a permanent basis, in Northampton County, 
Pennsylvania, adjacent to the Lehigh Valley Customs and Border 
Protection port of entry (FTZ Docket 42-2008, filed 8/1/08);
    Whereas, notice inviting public comment was given in the Federal 
Register (73 FR 46246, 8/8/08), 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 272 is approved, subject to the FTZ 
Act and the Board's regulations, including Section 400.28, and subject 
to the Board's standard 2,000-acre activation limit for the overall 
general-purpose zone project.
     Signed at Washington, DC, this 13th day of February 2009.

Ronald K. Lorentzen,
Acting Assistant Secretary of Commercefor Import Administration, 
Alternate Chairman, Foreign-Trade Zones Board.
    Attest:
Andrew McGilvray,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. E9-4236 Filed 2-26-09; 8:45 am]
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