[Federal Register: December 19, 1997 (Volume 62, Number 244)]
[Notices]
[Page 66601-66602]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
[DOCID:fr19de97-47]
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Foreign-Trade Zones Board
[Order NO. 940]
Grant of Authority For Subzone Status Polaris Industries, Inc.
(Small Spark-Ignition Engines) Osceola, Wisconsin
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, 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 Foreign-Trade 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 Brown County,
Wisconsin, grantee of Foreign-Trade Zone 167, for authority to
establish special-purpose subzone status for the small internal-
combustion engine manufacturing plant of Polaris Industries, Inc., in
Osceola, Wisconsin, was filed by the Board on December 11, 1996, and
notice inviting public comment was given in the Federal Register (FTZ
Docket 84-96, 61 FR 66652, 12-18-96); and,
Whereas, the Board adopts the findings and recommendations of the
examiner's report, and finds that the requirements of the FTZ Act and
Board's regulations are satisfied, and that approval of the application
is in the public interest;
Now, therefore, the Board hereby grants authority for subzone
status at the Polaris Industries, Inc., plant in Osceola, Wisconsin
(Subzone 167B), at the location described in the application,
[[Page 66602]]
subject to the FTZ Act and the Board's regulations, including
Sec. 400.28.
Signed at Washington, DC, this 11th day of December 1997.
Robert S. LaRussa,
Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Enforcement and Compliance, Alternate
Chairman, Foreign-Trade Zones Board.
John J. Da Ponte, Jr.
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 97-33241 Filed 12-18-97; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 3510-25-P