[Federal Register: November 14, 2001 (Volume 66, Number 220)]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Docket 45-2001]

Foreign-Trade Zone 42--Orlando, FL; Application for Subzone
Status, Mitsubishi Power Systems, Inc., Plant, (Power Generation
Turbine Components) Orlando, FL

    An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones Board
(the Board) by the Greater Orlando Aviation Authority, grantee of FTZ
42, requesting special-purpose subzone status for the power generation
turbine components

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manufacturing plant of Mitsubishi Power Systems, Inc. (MPS) (a
subsidiary of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd., of Japan), located in
Orlando, Florida. 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 November 6, 2001.
    The MPS plant (15 acres/109,000 sq.ft.) is located within the
Orlando Central Park at 2287 Premier Row, Orlando (Orange County),
Florida. The facility (350 employees) is used to contract repair and
manufacture combustion baskets, transition pieces, turbine blades and
turbine vanes used a components for simple-cycle and advanced combined-
cycle large power generation turbines (HTSUS# 8411.99), and to
distribute similar imported components for export and the U.S. market.
The production process involves inspection, welding, ceramic coating
and repair. In addition to the component production, the application
indicates that complete rotor assemblies would be repaired and/or

manufactured at the facility in the future. The components are
manufactured from cold-formed nickel alloy plate (HTSUS 7506.20; duty
rate--3.0%) and cobalt alloy (8105.90; 3.7%) sourced from abroad.
Domestic purchases of these alloys are planned.
    FTZ procedures would exempt MPS from Customs duty payments on the
foreign materials used in export production. On its domestic sales and
exports to NAFTA markets, the company would be able to choose the duty
rate that applies to finished combustion baskets, transition pieces,
turbine blades, turbine vanes and rotor assemblies (2.4%) for the
foreign-sourced nickel and cobalt alloys noted above. MPS would be able
to defer Customs duty payments on the foreign-origin finished power
generation turbine components that would be admitted to the proposed
subzone for U.S. distribution. Duties would be deferred or reduced on
foreign production equipment admitted to the proposed subzone until
which time it becomes operational. The application indicates that
subzone status would 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 on the application is invited from interested
parties. Submissions (original and three copies) shall be addressed to
the Board's Executive Secretary at the following addresses:
    1. Submissions via Express/Package Delivery Services: Foreign-Trade
Zones Board, U.S. Department of Commerce, Franklin Court Building--
Suite 4100W, 1099 14th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20005; or,
    2. Submissions via the U.S. Postal Service: Foreign-Trade Zones
Board, U.S. Department of Commerce, FCB-4100W, 1401 Constitution Ave.,
NW, Washington, DC 20230.
    The closing period for their receipt is January 14, 2002. Rebuttal
comments in response to material submitted during the foregoing period
may be submitted during the subsequent 15-day period (to January 29,
2002).
    A copy of the application will be available for public inspection

at the Office of the Foreign-Trade Zones Board's Executive Secretary at
address No.1 listed above and at the U.S. Department of Commerce Export
Assistance Center, Suite 1270, 200 E. Robinson Street, Orlando, FL
32801.

    Dated: November 6, 2001.
Dennis Puccinelli,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 01-28534 Filed 11-13-01; 8:45 am]
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