[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 68 (Friday, April 8, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Page 19746]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-8452]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Order No. 1749]


Expansion of Foreign-Trade Zone 133; Quad-Cities, IL/IA

    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 Quad-City Foreign Trade Zone, Inc., grantee of 
Foreign-Trade Zone 133, submitted an application to the Board for 
authority to expand FTZ 133 in the Quad-Cities, Iowa/Illinois area, 
adjacent to the Quad-Cities Customs and Border Protection port of entry 
(FTZ Docket 15-2010, filed 3/5/2010);
    Whereas, notice inviting public comment has been given in the 
Federal Register (75 FR 12729, 3/17/2010) 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 133 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 March 31, 2018 for Sites 1, 3, 4 and 5 
where no activity has occurred under FTZ procedures before that date.

    Signed at Washington, DC this 31st day of March 2011.
Ronald K. Lorentzen,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Import Administration, Alternate 
Chairman, Foreign-Trade Zones Board.
Andrew McGilvray,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2011-8452 Filed 4-7-11; 8:45 am]
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