[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 113 (Monday, June 13, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Page 34204]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-14577]


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 DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Order No. 1766]


Reorganization and Expansion of Foreign-Trade Zone 153 Under 
Alternative Site Framework, San Diego, CA

    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, the Board adopted the alternative site framework (ASF) (74 
FR 1170, 01/12/09; correction 74 FR 3987, 01/22/09; 75 FR 71069-71070, 
11/22/10) as an option for the establishment or reorganization of 
general-purpose zones;
    Whereas, the City of San Diego, California, grantee of Foreign-
Trade Zone 153, submitted an application to the Board (FTZ Docket 1-
2011, filed 01/03/2011) for authority to reorganize and expand under 
the ASF with a service area of the City and County of San Diego and a 
portion of Riverside County, California, within and adjacent to the San 
Diego U.S. Customs and Border Protection port of entry, FTZ 153's 
existing Sites 2-10 would be categorized as magnet sites, Sites 6 and 
10 would be reduced in size, existing Site 14 would be categorized as a 
usage-driven site, and the grantee proposes three additional usage-
driven sites (Sites 11-13);
    Whereas, notice inviting public comment was given in the Federal 
Register (76 FR 1132-1133, 01/07/2011) and the application has been 
processed pursuant to the FTZ Act and the Board's regulations; 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 the proposal is in the 
public interest;
    Now, therefore, the Board hereby orders:
    The application to reorganize and expand FTZ 153 under the 
alternative site framework is approved, subject to the FTZ Act and the 
Board's regulations, including Section 400.28, to the Board's standard 
2,000-acre activation limit for the overall general-purpose zone 
project, to a five-year ASF sunset provision for magnet sites that 
would terminate authority for Sites 2-10 if not activated by June 30, 
2016, and to a three-year ASF sunset provision for usage-driven sites 
that would terminate authority for Sites 11-14 if no foreign-status 
merchandise is admitted for a bona fide customs purpose by June 30, 
2014.

    Signed at Washington, DC, this 3rd day of June 2011.
Ronald K. Lorentzen,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Import Administration, Alternate 
Chairman, Foreign-Trade Zones Board.
[FR Doc. 2011-14577 Filed 6-10-11; 8:45 am]
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