Federal Register / Vol. 65, No. 81 / Wednesday, April 26, 2000 / Notices 24447

Navigation District, grantee of FTZ 149,

requesting authority to expand its zone

in the Freeport, Texas area, adjacent to

the Freeport Customs port of entry. The

application was submitted pursuant to

the provisions of the Foreign-Trade

Zones Act, as amended (19 U.S.C. 81a81u), and the regulations of the Board

(15 CFR part 400). It was formally filed

on April 14, 2000.

FTZ 149 was approved on June 28,

1988 (Board Order 385, 53 FR 26096, 7/

11/88). The zone project currently

consists of the following sites (1,957

acres) within the Port of Freeport and at

the Brazoria County Airport: Site 1 (280

acres)—on F.M. Route 1495 at the

Freeport Harbor on the west side of the

Brazos River Harbor Channel; Site 2

(154 acres)—on Holly Street in

Quintana, south of the Gulf Intracoastal

Waterway; Site 3 (1,063 acres)—at the

intersection of Highway 288 and F.M.

Route 1495; Site 4 (242 acres)—on F.M.

Route 1495, north of the Gulf

Intracoastal Waterway and south of the

Brazos River Harbor Channel; Site 5

(213 acres)—on County Road 723 south

of Site 4 and the Gulf Intracoastal

Waterway; and, Site 6 (5 acres)—located

east of the main runway at the Brazoria

County Airport.

The applicant is now requesting

authority to expand its general-purpose

zone to enlarge Site 6 at the Brazoria

County Airport; add 3 new sites

(Proposed Sites 7–9) in the City of

Pearland (Brazoria/Harris Counties), 38

miles north of Port Freeport; and, add a

new site (Proposed Site 10) in the City

of Alvin (Brazoria County), 30 miles

north of Port Freeport. Site 6 will be

expanded from 5 acres to 146 acres

within the 665-acre Brazoria County

Airport/Industrial Park complex. The

four new proposed sites are as follows:

Proposed Site 7 (506 acres)—Northern

Industrial Complex, adjacent to

Highway 35, Pearland (Brazoria

County); Proposed Site 8 (832 acres)—

Southern Industrial Complex, 4 miles

from the Sam Houston Parkway/Beltway

8, Pearland (Brazoria County); Proposed

Site 9 (146 acres)—Bybee-Sterling

Complex, Hooper Road and Sam

Houston Parkway, Pearland (Harris

County); and, Proposed Site 10 (8

acres)—Santa Fe Industrial Park, 200

Avenue I, Alvin (Brazoria County). No

specific manufacturing requests are

being made at this time. Such requests

would be made to the Board on a caseby-case basis.

In accordance with the Board’s

regulations, a member of the FTZ Staff

has been designated examiner to

investigate the application and report to

the Board.

Public comment on the application is

invited from interested parties.

Submissions (original and 3 copies)

shall be addressed to the Board’s

Executive Secretary at the address

below. The closing period for their

receipt is June 26, 2000. Rebuttal

comments in response to material

submitted during the foregoing period

may be submitted during the subsequent

15-day period (to July 10, 2000).

A copy of the application and

accompanying exhibits will be available

for public inspection at each of the

following locations:

Office of the Port Director, U.S. Customs

Service, 2350 N. Sam Houston

Parkway East, Suite 1000, Houston,

TX 77032

Office of the Executive Secretary,

Foreign-Trade Zones Board, Room

3716, U.S. Department of Commerce,

14th & Pennsylvania Avenue NW,

Washington, DC 20230

Dated: April 14, 2000.

Dennis Puccinelli,

Acting Executive Secretary.

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

Michigan Technological University;

Notice of Decision on Application for

Duty-Free Entry of Scientific

Instrument

This decision is made pursuant to

Section 6(c) of the Educational,

Scientific, and Cultural Materials

Importation Act of 1966 (Pub. L. 89–

651, 80 Stat. 897; 15 CFR part 301).

Related records can be viewed between

8:30 a.m. and 5 p.m. in Room 4211, U.S.

Department of Commerce, 14th and

Constitution Avenue, NW, Washington,

DC.

Docket Number: 00–004. Applicant:

Michigan Technological University,

Houghton, MI 49931. Instrument:

Automatic Thin Section Machine.

Manufacturer: Dansk Beton Teknik A/S,

Denmark. Intended Use: See notice at 65

FR 11986, March 7, 2000.

Comments: None received. Decision:

Approved. No instrument of equivalent

scientific value to the foreign

instrument, for such purposes as it is

intended to be used, is being

manufactured in the United States.

Reasons: The foreign instrument

provides a horizontally mounted

rotating diamond impregnated drum

under which specimens are repeatedly

passed on a sliding platform to

minimize damage to cement and asphalt

concrete thin sections for microscopic

examination. The Federal Highway

Administration advises that (1) this

capability is pertinent to the applicant’s

intended purpose and (2) it knows of no

domestic instrument or apparatus of

equivalent scientific value to the foreign

instrument for the applicant’s intended

use.

We know of no other instrument or

apparatus of equivalent scientific value

to the foreign instrument which is being

manufactured in the United States.

Frank W. Creel,

Director, Statutory Import Programs Staff.

[FR Doc. 00–10416 Filed 4–25–00; 8:45 am]

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

Ohio State University; Notice of

Decision on Application for Duty-Free

Entry of Electron Microscope

This is a decision pursuant to Section

6(c) of the Educational, Scientific, and

Cultural Materials Importation Act of

1966 (Pub. L. 89–651, 80 Stat. 897; 15

CFR part 301). Related records can be

viewed between 8:30 a.m. and 5 p.m. in

Room 4211, U.S. Department of

Commerce, 14th and Constitution

Avenue, NW, Washington, DC.

Docket Number: 00–005. Applicant:

Ohio State University, Wooster, OH

44691. Instrument: Electron Microscope,

Model H–7500–1. Manufacturer: Hitachi

Ltd., Japan. Intended Use: See notice at

65 FR 14245, March 16, 2000. Order

Date: October 19, 1999.

Comments: None received. Decision:

Approved. No instrument of equivalent

scientific value to the foreign

instrument, for such purposes as the

instrument is intended to be used, was

being manufactured in the United States

at the time the instrument was ordered.

Reasons: The foreign instrument is a

conventional transmission electron

microscope (CTEM) and is intended for

research or scientific educational uses

requiring a CTEM. We know of no

CTEM, or any other instrument suited to

these purposes, which was being

manufactured in the United States at the

time of order of the instrument.

Frank W. Creel,

Director, Statutory Import Programs Staff.

[FR Doc. 00–10417 Filed 4–25–00; 8:45 am]

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