[Federal Register Volume 74, Number 157 (Monday, August 17, 2009)]
[Notices]
[Page 41382]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E9-19675]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Order No. 1640]


Grant of Authority for Subzone Status, Hoku Materials, Inc. 
(Polysilicon), Pocatello, Idaho

    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 
to 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, Boundary County, Idaho, grantee of FTZ 242, has made 
application to the Board for authority to establish special-purpose 
subzone status at the polysilicon manufacturing plant of Hoku 
Materials, Inc., located in Pocatello, Idaho (FTZ Docket 53-2008, filed 
10/03/2008, and amended 12/31/2008);
    Whereas, notice inviting public comment has been given in the 
Federal Register (73 FR 59597-59598, 10/09/2008); and,
    Whereas, the Board adopts the findings and recommendations of the 
examiner's report, and finds that the requirements of the FTZ Act and 
the Board's regulations would be satisfied, and that approval of the 
application, as amended, would be in the public interest, if approval 
were subject to the condition listed below;
    Now, therefore, the Board hereby grants authority for subzone 
status for activity related to the manufacture of polysilicon at the 
Hoku Materials, Inc., facility, located in Pocatello, Idaho (Subzone 
242A), as described in the application and Federal Register notice, 
subject to the FTZ Act and the Board's regulations, including Section 
400.28, and also subject to a restriction prohibiting any admission of 
silicon metal subject to an antidumping or countervailing duty order.
    Signed at Washington, DC, this 5th day of August 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. E9-19675 Filed 8-14-09; 8:45 am]
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