[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 233 (Monday, December 5, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Page 75870]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-31140]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Order No. 1801]


Approval for Subzone Expansion and Expansion of Manufacturing 
Authority; Foreign-Trade Subzone 124B; North American Shipbuilding, LLC 
(Shipbuilding); Larose, Houma, and Port Fourchon, Louisiana

    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 South Louisiana Port Commission, grantee of Foreign-
Trade Zone 124, has requested an expansion of the subzone and the scope 
of manufacturing authority on behalf of North American Shipbuilding, 
LLC (NAS), operator of Subzone 124B at the NAS shipbuilding facilities 
in Larose, Houma, and Port Fourchon, Louisiana (FTZ Docket 27-2011, 
filed 4-8-2011);
    Whereas, notice inviting public comment has been given in the 
Federal Register (76 FR 21702-21703, 4-18-2011) 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 would be satisfied, and that the proposal would be 
in the public interest;
    Now, therefore, the Board hereby orders:
    The application to expand the subzone and the scope of 
manufacturing authority under zone procedures within Subzone 124B, as 
described in the application and Federal Register notice, is approved, 
subject to the Act and the Board's regulations, including Section 
400.28, and the following special conditions:
    1. Any foreign steel mill product admitted to the subzone, 
including plate, angles, shapes, channels, rolled steel stock, bars, 
pipes and tubes, not incorporated into merchandise otherwise 
classified, and which is used in manufacturing, shall be subject to 
customs duties in accordance with applicable law, unless the Executive 
Secretary determines that the same item is not then being produced by a 
domestic steel mill.
    2. NAS shall meet its obligation under 15 CFR Sec.  400.28(a)(3) by 
annually advising the Board's Executive Secretary as to significant new 
contracts with appropriate information concerning foreign purchases 
otherwise dutiable, so that the Board may consider whether any foreign 
dutiable items are being imported for manufacturing in the subzone 
primarily because of FTZ procedures and whether the Board should 
consider requiring customs duties to be paid on such items.

    Signed at Washington, DC, this 28th day of November, 2011.
Paul Piquado
Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Import Administration Alternate 
Chairman, Foreign-Trade Zones Board.

ATTEST:
Andrew McGilvray,
Executive Secretary
[FR Doc. 2011-31140 Filed 12-2-11; 8:45 am]
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