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the company has identified any pending

litigation (including any administrative

proceedings) to which it is a party that

involves the Department of Commerce;

and (d) the company agrees that it and

its affiliates (1) have not and will not

engage in the bribery of foreign officials

in connection with the applicant’s

involvement in this event, and (2)

maintain and enforce a policy that

prohibits the bribery of foreign officials.

The revision to Form 4008P would

require companies seeking to take part

in overseas trade missions to make these

certifications.

Affected Public: Companies seeking to

apply to participate in overseas

Commerce Department trade missions.

Frequency: On occasion.

Respondent’s Obligation: Required to

obtain or retain a benefit.

OMB Desk Officer: Victoria BaecherWassmer, (202) 395–7340.

Copies of the above information

collection proposal can be obtained by

calling or writing Linda Engelmeier,

DOC Forms Clearance Officer, (202)

482–3272, Department of Commerce,

Room 5327, 14th and Constitution

Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20230.

Written comments and

recommendations for the proposed

information collection should be sent to

Victoria Baecher-Wassmer, OMB Desk

Officer, Room 10202, New Executive

Office Building, Washington, DC 20503.

An emergency clearance has been

requested by April 11, 1997.

Dated: April 3, 1997.

Linda Engelmeier,

Departmental Forms Clearance Officer, Office

of Management and Organization.

[FR Doc. 97–9068 Filed 4–8–97; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 3510–FP

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Docket 23–97]

Foreign-Trade Zone 98—Birmingham,

Alabama: Application for Subzone

Status, JVC America, Inc. (Videotape

and Videocassettes) Tuscaloosa

County, Alabama

An application has been submitted to

the Foreign-Trade Zones Board (the

Board) by the City of Birmingham,

Alabama, grantee of FTZ 98, requesting

special-purpose subzone status for the

VHS videotape and videocassette

manufacturing facility of JVC America,

Inc. (JVC) (subsidiary of Victor

Company of Japan, Ltd.), located at sites

in Tuscaloosa County, Alabama. The

application was submitted pursuant to

the provisions of the Foreign-Trade

Zones Act, as amended (19 U.S.C. 81a–

81u), and the regulations of the Board

(15 CFR part 400). It was formally filed

on March 25, 1997.

The JVC plant (440,000 sq. ft. on 103

acres) consists of two sites in

Tuscaloosa County, Alabama: Site 1:

(400,000 sq. ft. on 101 acres)—

production facility located at 1 JVC

Road, adjacent to I–20/59, some 15

miles east of the City of Tuscaloosa; Site

2: (40,000 sq. ft. on 2 acres)—warehouse

located at 1010 19th Avenue, City of

Tuscaloosa. The facility (235

employees) produces prepared

unrecorded media such as VHS

videotape and videocassettes. (Compact

discs are also manufactured at the site,

but authority to conduct such

manufacture under zone procedures is

not being requested at this time.) Some

15 percent of production is exported.

Zone procedures would exempt JVC

from Customs duty payments on foreign

materials used in production for export.

On domestic shipments, the company

would be able to choose the duty rate

that applies to videotape and

videocassettes (2.5%, becoming dutyfree in 1999 upon final implementation

of the Uruguay Round of GATT), instead

of the rates (ranging from duty-free to

9.7%) otherwise applicable to the

foreign materials. Foreign components,

which account for an estimated 40

percent of material value, include

carbon, iron oxides and hydroxides,

palmitic/stearic acids, plasticizers,

printing ink, polyvinyl chloride,

polyurethanes, splice tape, packaging

film, glue, polyethylene terephthalate

film, cassette housings, cassette hubs,

bemcot wipes, glass beads, filters, and

prepared unrecorded media. The

application indicates that the savings

from zone procedures will help improve

the plant’s international

competitiveness.

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 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 9, 1997. Rebuttal

comments in response to material

submitted during the foregoing period

may be submitted during the subsequent

15-day period (to June 23, 1997).

A copy of the application and

accompanying exhibits will be available

for public inspection at each of the

following locations:

U.S. Department of Commerce, Export

Assistance Center, Medical Forum

Building, 7th Floor, 950 22nd Street

North, Birmingham, AL 35203;

Office of the Executive Secretary,

Foreign-Trade Zones Board, U.S.

Department of Commerce, Room

3716, 14th & Pennsylvania Avenue,

NW, Washington, DC 20230.

Dated: March 31, 1997.

John J. Da Ponte, Jr.,

Executive Secretary

[FR Doc. 97–9117 Filed 4–8–97; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Order No. 876]

Grant of Authority for Subzone Status,

Ascent Power Technology Corp.,

(Electric Power Supplies/Electronic

Fluorescent Lighting Ballasts);

Campton, KY

Pursuant to its authority under the ForeignTrade Zones Act of June 18, 1934, as

amended (19 U.S.C. 81a–81u), the ForeignTrade Zones Board (the Board) adopts the

following Order:

Whereas, by an Act of Congress

approved June 18, 1934, an Act ‘‘To

provide for the establishment * * * of

foreign-trade zones in ports of entry of

the United States, to expedite and

encourage foreign commerce, and for

other purposes,’’ as amended (19 U.S.C.

81a–81u) (the FTZ Act), the ForeignTrade Zones Board (the Board) is

authorized to grant to qualified

corporations the privilege of

establishing foreign-trade zones in or

adjacent to U.S. Customs ports of entry;

Whereas, the Board’s regulations (15

CFR Part 400) provide for the

establishment of special-purpose

subzones when existing zone facilities

cannot serve the specific use involved;

Whereas, an application from the

Louisville and Jefferson County

Riverport Authority, grantee of ForeignTrade Zone 29, for authority to establish

special-purpose subzone status for the

manufacturing facilities (electric power

supplies and electronic fluorescent

lighting ballasts) of Ascent Power

Technology Corp., in Campton,

Kentucky, was filed by the Board on

August 27, 1996, and notice inviting

public comment was given in the

Federal Register (FTZ Docket 67–96, 61

FR 47870, 9–11–96); and,

Whereas, the Board adopts the

findings and recommendations of the

examiner’s report, and finds that the

requirements of the FTZ Act and