[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 200 (Wednesday, October 18, 2017)]
[Notices]
[Pages 48481-48482]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2017-22602]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[B-63-2017]


Foreign-Trade Zone (FTZ) 123--Denver, Colorado; Notification of 
Proposed Production Activity; Lockheed Martin Corporation Space Systems 
Company; (Satellites and Other Space Craft); Littleton, Colorado

    Lockheed Martin Corporation Space Systems Company (Lockheed 
Martin), submitted a notification of proposed production activity to 
the FTZ Board for its facility in Littleton, Colorado. The notification 
conforming to the requirements of the regulations of the FTZ Board (15 
CFR 400.22) was received on October 4, 2017.
    A separate application for subzone designation for the Lockheed 
Martin facility under FTZ 123 is being processed (see docket S-151-
2017).
    The facility will be used to produce satellites and other 
spacecraft for space-based use. Pursuant to 15 CFR 400.14(b), FTZ 
activity would be limited to the specific foreign-status materials and 
components and specific finished products described in the submitted 
notification (as described below) and subsequently authorized by the 
FTZ Board.
    Production under FTZ procedures could exempt Lockheed Martin from 
customs duty payments on the foreign-status components used in export 
production. On its domestic sales, for the foreign-status materials/
components noted below, Lockheed Martin would be able to choose the 
duty rates during customs entry procedures that apply to: Satellites 
and other craft for space-based use and subsystems for satellites and 
other space craft (duty free). Lockheed Martin would be able to avoid 
duty on foreign-status components which become scrap/waste. Customs 
duties also could possibly be deferred or reduced on foreign-status 
production equipment.
    The components and materials sourced from abroad include: 80% 
hydrogen/20% argon gas; dinitrogen tetroxide (oxidizer); high purity 
hydrazine; plastic composite test panels; carbon composite panels; 
mechanically joined cylindrical sandwich panels, composite ogive 
sandwich panels; optical solar reflectors; protective cover glasses for 
gallium-arsenide solar cells; liquid apogee rocket engines; dual mode 
liquid apogee rocket engines; communication receivers; base station 
transceivers; Ku-band receivers; controllers for low noise amplifier 
block converter; Ka-band phased loop lock dual band low noise amplifier 
and block converter; transceivers; optical filters-fiber bragg grating; 
microwave power module band stop filters, Ku-band; signal converters; 
multiplexers (mux's) includes diplexers; signal filters; input filter 
assemblies; redundant low noise amplifiers; downconverters; beacon 
transmitters; Ka-band beacons; Ka-band input filter assemblies; 
communication receivers; command receivers; antennas; antenna 
reflectors; antenna assemblies; antenna mast electro-mechanical 
assemblies; power supply boards; radio frequency switches; post down 
converter filter assemblies; output switch matrix; Ka-band combiners; 
dual couplers; electrical switches; electrical connectors; connector 
savers; electrical switching modules; microchip programmers; wave 
guides (coaxial); circuit breaker assemblies; bulkhead receptacles; 
electrical switches (coaxial); radio frequency switch assembly/gen iv 
test racks; traveling wave tubes (TWT); gallium-arsenide solar cells; 
optical solar reflectors; quadrant detectors; surface acoustic wave 
filters; field programmable gate arrays; hybrid integrated circuits; 
mass simulators; master local oscillators; traveling wave tube 
amplifiers; transmit receive integrated assembly amplifiers; linearized 
traveling wave tube amplifiers; coaxial combiners; payload separation 
rings; reaction wheels; star tracker optical heads; star tracker 
electronics units; earth sensors; baffles for star tracker; 
thermocouples; radio frequency recording and playback systems; power 
injector assemblies, and pressure switches (duty rates range from duty-
free to 6.5%).
    Public comment is invited from interested parties. Submissions 
shall be addressed to the Board's Executive Secretary at the address 
below. The closing period for their receipt is November 27, 2017.
    A copy of the notification will be available for public inspection 
at the Office of the Executive Secretary, Foreign-Trade Zones Board, 
Room 21013, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue NW., 
Washington, DC 20230-0002, and in the ``Reading Room'' section of the 
Board's Web site, which is accessible via www.trade.gov/ftz.
    For further information, contact Christopher Wedderburn at

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[email protected] or (202) 482-1963.

    Dated: October 13, 2017.
Camille R. Evans,
Acting Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2017-22602 Filed 10-17-17; 8:45 am]
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