[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 137 (Monday, July 19, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Page 41801]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-17542]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Order No. 1692]


Expansion of Foreign-Trade Zone 163, Ponce, Puerto Rico, 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, CODEZOL, C.D., grantee of Foreign-Trade Zone 163, 
submitted an application to the Board for authority to expand existing 
Site 1 to include additional acreage and to expand the zone to include 
a site at the ProCaribe Industrial Park (Site 11) in Penuelas, Puerto 
Rico, adjacent to the Ponce Customs and Border Protection port of entry 
(FTZ Docket 53-2009, filed 11/23/09);
    Whereas, notice inviting public comment was given in the Federal 
Register (74 FR 62747, 12/1/09) 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 163 is approved, subject to the FTZ 
Act and the Board's regulations, including Section 400.28, and subject 
to a sunset provision that would terminate authority on June 30, 2015, 
for Site 11 if no activity has occurred under FTZ procedures before 
that date.

    Signed at Washington, DC, this 8 day of July 2010.
Ronald K. Lorentzen,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Import Administration, Alternate 
Chairman, Foreign-Trade Zones Board.

    Attest:
 Andrew McGilvray,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2010-17542 Filed 7-16-10; 8:45 am]
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