[Federal Register Volume 74, Number 111 (Thursday, June 11, 2009)]
[Notices]
[Pages 27777-27778]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E9-13625]


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 DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Order No. 1611]


Expansion of Foreign-Trade Zone 84, Houston, Texas, 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 Port of Houston Authority, grantee of Foreign-Trade 
Zone 84, submitted an application to the Board for authority to expand 
its zone to include six additional sites (Sites 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, & 
22) in the Houston, Texas, area, adjacent to the Houston Customs and 
Border Protection port of entry (FTZ Docket 49-2008, filed 9/10/08);
    Whereas, notice inviting public comment was given in the Federal 
Register (73 FR 54556, 9/22/08), 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 84 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 May 31, 2014, for Sites 17, 18, 19, 
20, 21, & 22, where no activity has occurred under FTZ procedures 
before that date.

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    Signed at Washington, DC, this 24th day of April 2009.

Ronald K. Lorentzen,
Acting Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Import Administration, 
Alternate Chairman, Foreign-Trade Zones Board/
    Attest:
Andrew McGilvray,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. E9-13625 Filed 6-10-09; 8:45 am]
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