DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Foreign-Trade Zones Board
AGENCY: Internatinal Trade Administration, DOC.
15 CFR Part 400
Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking; Review of Regulations
Concerning Special Subzones and Operations Detrimental to
the Public Interest
45 FR 67681
October 14, 1980
ACTION: Advance notice of proposed rulemaking.
SUMMARY: The Foreign-Trade Zones Staff is soliciting suggestions for
amendments to the regulations of the Foreign-Trade Zones Board.
DATE: Comments must be postmarked on or before December 15, 1980.
ADDRESS: Executive Secretary, Foreign-Trade Zones Board, U.S. Department
of Commerce, Room 2006, Washington, D.C. 20230.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
John J. Da Ponte, Jr., Executive Secretary, (202) 377-2862.
TEXT: SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Foreign-Trade Zones Staff, Import
Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce is currently soliciting public
suggestions for amendments to the regulations of the Foreign-Trade Zones
Board (15 CFR Part 400).
Among the sections being reviewed are @ 400.304, concerning special-
purpose subzones, and @ 400.807, concerning operations detrimental to the
public interest. Both substantive and procedural changes will be considered
with emphasis on providing improved guidance to the public on the criteria
used by the Board in its decisions and the procedures followed under these
sections.
Interested parties are invited to submit comments on these two sections,
as well as any other provisions of the regulations they feel should be
revised. Comments should be addressed to the Executive Secretary,
Foreign-Trade Zones Board, U.S. Department of Commerce, Room 2006,
Washington, D.C. They should be postmarked no later than December 15, 1980.
Dated: October 8, 1980.
B. Waring Partridge,
Deputy to the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance,
Chairman, Committee of Alternates, Foreign-Trade Zones Board.
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