[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 103 (Friday, May 28, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Pages 29975-29976]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-12958]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Order No. 1679]


Expansion of Foreign-Trade Zone 272; Lehigh Valley, 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 FTZ 272 to include a site in Bethlehem, 
Pennsylvania, adjacent to the Philadelphia Customs and Border 
Protection port of entry (FTZ Docket 37-2009, filed 9/9/2009);
    Whereas, notice inviting public comment has been given in the 
Federal Register (74 FR 47920-47921, September 18, 2009) and the 
application

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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 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, 2017 for Site 9 if no activity has 
occurred under FTZ procedures before that date.

    Signed at Washington, DC, this 13th day of May 2010.
Ronald K. Lorentzen,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Import Administration, Alternate 
Chairman, Foreign-Trade Zones Board.
    Attest:
Andrew McGilvray,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2010-12958 Filed 5-27-10; 8:45 am]
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