[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 168 (Thursday, August 29, 2013)]
[Notices]
[Page 53426]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2013-21153]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Order No. 1912]


Expansion of Foreign-Trade Zone 84; Houston, Texas

    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 Port of Houston Authority, grantee of Foreign-Trade 
Zone 84, submitted an application to the Board for authority to expand 
FTZ 84 to include a site in Brazos County, Texas, adjacent to the 
Houston Customs and Border Protection port of entry (B-10-2013, 
docketed 1/31/2013);
    Whereas, notice inviting public comment has been given in the 
Federal Register (78 FR 8492-8493, 2/6/2013) 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 would be satisfied if subject to specific 
conditions;
    Now, therefore, the Board hereby orders:
    The application to expand FTZ 84 is approved, subject to the FTZ 
Act and the Board's regulations, including Section 400.13, and to the 
Board's standard 2,000-acre activation limit, and further subject to 
sunset provisions that would terminate authority on August 31, 2018, 
for Sites 2, 3, 5, 12, 14, 23 and 26 where no activity has occurred 
under FTZ procedures before that date.

    Signed at Washington, DC, this August 23, 2013.
Ronald K. Lorentzen,
Acting Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Import Administration, 
Alternate Chairman, Foreign-Trade Zones Board.
    ATTEST:
Andrew McGilvray,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2013-21153 Filed 8-28-13; 8:45 am]
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