[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 29 (Friday, February 12, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Page 7500]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2016-02993]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[B-5-2016]


Foreign-Trade Zone (FTZ) 279--Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana; 
Notification of Proposed Production Activity; Thoma-Sea Marine 
Constructors, L.L.C. (Shipbuilding); Houma, Louisiana

    The Houma-Terrebonne Airport Commission, grantee of FTZ 279, 
submitted a notification of proposed production activity to the FTZ 
Board on behalf of Thoma-Sea Marine Constructors, L.L.C. (Thoma-Sea), 
located in Houma, Louisiana. The notification conforming to the 
requirements of the regulations of the FTZ Board (15 CFR 400.22) was 
received on February 3, 2016.
    A separate request for subzone designation at the Thoma-Sea 
facilities is planned and will be processed under Section 400.31 of the 
FTZ Board's regulations. The facilities are used for the construction 
and repair of oceangoing vessels. 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 Thoma-Sea from customs 
duty payments on the foreign status components used in export 
production. On its domestic sales, Thoma-Sea would be able to choose 
the duty rate during customs entry procedures that applies to 
oceangoing vessels (free) for the foreign status inputs noted below. 
Customs duties also could possibly be deferred or reduced on foreign 
status production equipment.
    The components sourced from abroad include: plastic hoses; printed 
manuals; steel pipe fittings; doors; steel tanks; hatches/manholes; 
copper anodes; zinc rods; base metal mountings; outboard motors; parts 
of marine engines; parts of hydraulic pumps; hydraulic fluid pumps; 
compressors; portal/pedestal jib cranes; thruster parts; pressure-
reducing valves; steel tank valves; vent check valves; machine parts of 
automated systems; electric motors; AC generators; speed drive 
controllers; power supplies; batteries; power cells; starter 
generators/motors; electric ignition starter parts; fuses; circuit 
boards; parts of electrical switching apparatus; insulated winding 
wire; liquid flow/level measuring instruments; parts of printed circuit 
assemblies; and, parts of measuring instruments (duty rate ranges from 
free to 5.7%).
    Public comment is invited from interested parties. Submissions 
shall be addressed to the FTZ Board's Executive Secretary at the 
address below. The closing period for their receipt is March 23, 2016.
    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 
FTZ Board's Web site, which is accessible via www.trade.gov/ftz.
    For further information, contact Pierre Duy at [email protected] 
or (202) 482-1378.

    Dated: February, 2, 2016.
Andrew McGilvray,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2016-02993 Filed 2-11-16; 8:45 am]
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