[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 34 (Thursday, February 20, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Page 7751]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-4224]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
[Docket 4-97]


Foreign-Trade Zone 84--Houston, Texas Area Application for
Expansion of Subzone 84L California Microwave--Microwave Network
Systems, Inc.; Stafford, Texas

    An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones Board
(the Board) by the Port of Houston Authority, grantee of FTZ 84,
requesting authority to relocate Subzone 84L, authorized for California
Microwave--Microwave Network Systems, Inc. (microwave
telecommunications products), to a larger facility in Stafford, Texas,
within the Houston Customs port of entry. 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 January 22, 1997.
    Subzone 84L was approved on 12/28/94 (Board Order 722, 60 FR 2377,
1/9/95) for the microwave radio/telecommunications products
manufacturing facility (3.5 acres, 240 persons) of Microwave Networks,
Inc. (MNI), located in Harris County, Texas. Approval was subject to
the restriction requiring that the company elect privileged foreign
status on foreign components admitted to the subzone. MNI was acquired
in 1996 by California Microwave, Inc. and now operates under the name
of California Microwave--Microwave Network Systems, Inc. (CMMNS).
    The zone grantee is now requesting authority on behalf of CMMNS to
relocate the subzone from the currently authorized manufacturing plant
to a larger manufacturing facility (16 acres, 355 employees), located
at 4000 Greenbriar Drive in Stafford, Texas. The application includes a
request for an expanded level of manufacturing authority but the scope
of the products made under FTZ procedures will not change (microwave
radios for use in cellular and other telecommunications networks). FTZ
authority would remain subject to the restrictions approved in Board
Order 722.
    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 3 copies) shall be addressed to the
Board's Executive Secretary at the address below. The closing period
for their receipt is April 21, 1997. Rebuttal comments in response to
material submitted during the foregoing period may be submitted during
the subsequent 15-day period (to May 6, 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, 500 Dallas, Suite
1160, Houston, Texas 77002
Office of the Executive Secretary, Foreign-Trade Zones Board, Room
3716, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th and Pennsylvania Avenue, NW,
Washington, DC 20230

    Dated: January 30, 1997.
John J. Da Ponte, Jr.,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 97-4224 Filed 2-19-97; 8:45 am]
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