[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 168 (Wednesday, August 29, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Pages 52310-52311]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-21342]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Order No. 1848]


Expansion of Foreign-Trade Zone 61, San Juan, Puerto Rico

    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 Puerto Rico Trade and Export Company, grantee of 
Foreign-Trade Zone 61, submitted an application to the Board for 
authority to expand FTZ 61 to include a site in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, 
adjacent to the San Juan U.S. Customs and Border Protection port of 
entry (FTZ Docket 72-2011, filed November 9, 2011);
    Whereas, notice inviting public comment has been given in the 
Federal Register (76 FR 70703-70704, 11/15/2011) 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 
the 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 61 is approved, subject to the FTZ 
Act and

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the Board's regulations, including Section 400.13, and to sunset 
provisions that would terminate authority on August 31, 2017, for Sites 
1, 11-13, 17-22, and on August 31, 2022, for Site 24, where no activity 
has occurred under FTZ procedures before those dates.

    Signed at Washington, DC, this 17th day of August 2012.
Ronald K. Lorentzen,
Acting Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Import Administration, 
Alternate Chairman, Foreign-Trade Zones Board.

    Attest:
Andrew McGilvray,
Executive Secretary.
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