[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 129 (Wednesday, July 6, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Page 39379]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-16906]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Order No. 1768]


Expansion of Foreign-Trade Zone 78; Nashville, TN

    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 Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson 
County, grantee of Foreign-Trade Zone 78, submitted an application to 
the Board for authority to expand FTZ 78 to include sites in the 
Nashville, Tennessee, area, adjacent to the Nashville Customs and 
Border Protection port of entry (FTZ Docket 64-2010, filed November 5, 
2010);
    Whereas, notice inviting public comment has been given in the 
Federal Register (75 FR 69398, 11/12/10) 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 78 is approved, subject to the FTZ 
Act and the Board's regulations, including Section 400.28, to the 
Board's standard 2,000-acre activation limit for the overall general-
purpose zone project, and to sunset provisions that would terminate 
authority for existing Sites 1-5 on June 30, 2016 and for Sites 8-12 on 
June 30, 2018 where no activity has occurred under FTZ procedures 
before those dates.

     Signed at Washington, DC, this 22nd day of June 2011.
Ronald K. Lorentzen,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Import Administration, Alternate 
Chairman, Foreign-Trade Zones Board.
    ATTEST:
    June 22, 2011.
Andrew McGilvray,
Executive Secretary.
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