[Federal Register Volume 74, Number 144 (Wednesday, July 29, 2009)]
[Notices]
[Pages 37688-37689]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E9-18078]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Order No. 1634]


Expansion of Foreign-Trade Zone 49, Newark, New Jersey, 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 Authority of New York and New Jersey, grantee of 
Foreign-Trade Zone 49, submitted an application to the Board for 
authority to expand its zone to include a site at the Heller Industrial 
Park (Site 11) in Edison, New Jersey, within the Newark/New York 
Customs and Border Protection port of entry (FTZ Docket 5-2009, filed 
2/6/09);
    Whereas, notice inviting public comment was given in the Federal 
Register (74 FR 7392-7393, 2/17/09) 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 expand FTZ 49 is approved, subject to the FTZ 
Act and the Board's regulations, including Section 400.28, and to the 
Board's standard 2,000-acre activation limit for

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the overall general-purpose zone project, and further subject to a 
sunset provision that would terminate authority on July 31, 2014, for 
Site 11 if no activity has occurred under FTZ procedures before that 
date.
    Signed at Washington, DC, this 16th day of July 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. E9-18078 Filed 7-28-09; 8:45 am]
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