Federal Register, Volume 82 Issue 200 (Wednesday, October 18, 2017) 
[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 200 (Wednesday, October 18, 2017)]
[Notices]
[Pages 48481-48482]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2017-22602]

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[B-63-2017]

Foreign-Trade Zone (FTZ) 123--Denver, Colorado; Notification of
Proposed Production Activity; Lockheed Martin Corporation Space Systems
Company; (Satellites and Other Space Craft); Littleton, Colorado

    Lockheed Martin Corporation Space Systems Company (Lockheed
Martin), submitted a notification of proposed production activity to
the FTZ Board for its facility in Littleton, Colorado. The notification
conforming to the requirements of the regulations of the FTZ Board (15
CFR 400.22) was received on October 4, 2017.
    A separate application for subzone designation for the Lockheed
Martin facility under FTZ 123 is being processed (see docket S-151-
2017).
    The facility will be used to produce satellites and other
spacecraft for space-based use. Pursuant to 15 CFR 400.14(b), FTZ
activity would be limited to the specific foreign-status materials and
components and specific finished products described in the submitted
notification (as described below) and subsequently authorized by the
FTZ Board.
    Production under FTZ procedures could exempt Lockheed Martin from
customs duty payments on the foreign-status components used in export
production. On its domestic sales, for the foreign-status materials/

components noted below, Lockheed Martin would be able to choose the
duty rates during customs entry procedures that apply to: Satellites
and other craft for space-based use and subsystems for satellites and
other space craft (duty free). Lockheed Martin would be able to avoid
duty on foreign-status components which become scrap/waste. Customs
duties also could possibly be deferred or reduced on foreign-status
production equipment.
    The components and materials sourced from abroad include: 80%
hydrogen/20% argon gas; dinitrogen tetroxide (oxidizer); high purity
hydrazine; plastic composite test panels; carbon composite panels;
mechanically joined cylindrical sandwich panels, composite ogive
sandwich panels; optical solar reflectors; protective cover glasses for
gallium-arsenide solar cells; liquid apogee rocket engines; dual mode
liquid apogee rocket engines; communication receivers; base station
transceivers; Ku-band receivers; controllers for low noise amplifier
block converter; Ka-band phased loop lock dual band low noise amplifier

and block converter; transceivers; optical filters-fiber bragg grating;
microwave power module band stop filters, Ku-band; signal converters;
multiplexers (mux's) includes diplexers; signal filters; input filter
assemblies; redundant low noise amplifiers; downconverters; beacon
transmitters; Ka-band beacons; Ka-band input filter assemblies;
communication receivers; command receivers; antennas; antenna
reflectors; antenna assemblies; antenna mast electro-mechanical
assemblies; power supply boards; radio frequency switches; post down
converter filter assemblies; output switch matrix; Ka-band combiners;
dual couplers; electrical switches; electrical connectors; connector
savers; electrical switching modules; microchip programmers; wave
guides (coaxial); circuit breaker assemblies; bulkhead receptacles;
electrical switches (coaxial); radio frequency switch assembly/gen iv
test racks; traveling wave tubes (TWT); gallium-arsenide solar cells;
optical solar reflectors; quadrant detectors; surface acoustic wave

filters; field programmable gate arrays; hybrid integrated circuits;
mass simulators; master local oscillators; traveling wave tube
amplifiers; transmit receive integrated assembly amplifiers; linearized
traveling wave tube amplifiers; coaxial combiners; payload separation
rings; reaction wheels; star tracker optical heads; star tracker
electronics units; earth sensors; baffles for star tracker;
thermocouples; radio frequency recording and playback systems; power
injector assemblies, and pressure switches (duty rates range from duty-
free to 6.5%).
    Public comment is invited from interested parties. Submissions
shall be addressed to the Board's Executive Secretary at the address
below. The closing period for their receipt is November 27, 2017.
    A copy of the notification will be available for public inspection
at the Office of the Executive Secretary, Foreign-Trade Zones Board,
Room 21013, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue NW.,
Washington, DC 20230-0002, and in the ``Reading Room'' section of the

Board's Web site, which is accessible via www.trade.gov/ftz.
    For further information, contact Christopher Wedderburn at

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Chris.Wedderburn@trade.gov or (202) 482-1963.

    Dated: October 13, 2017.
Camille R. Evans,
Acting Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2017-22602 Filed 10-17-17; 8:45 am]
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