[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 204 (Friday, October 21, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Page 65496]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-27299]


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 DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Order No. 1790]


Reorganization of Foreign-Trade Zone 119 Under Alternative Site 
Framework, Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN

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 Greater Metropolitan Area Foreign-Trade Zone 
Commission, grantee of Foreign-Trade Zone 119, submitted an application 
to the Board (FTZ Docket 40-2011, filed 6/8/2011) for authority to 
reorganize under the ASF with a service area of Isanti, Chisago, 
Sherburne, Wright, Anoka, Washington, Ramsey, Hennepin, McLeod, Carver, 
Scott, Dakota, Sibley, LeSueur, and Rice Counties, Minnesota, within 
and adjacent to the Minneapolis Customs and Border Protection port of 
entry, and FTZ 119's existing Sites 1-3 and 7-10 would be categorized 
as magnet sites;
    Whereas, notice inviting public comment was given in the Federal 
Register (76 FR 34649-34650, 6/14/2011) 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 FTZ 119 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, and 
to a five-year ASF sunset provision for magnet sites that would 
terminate authority for Sites 2-3 and 7-10 if not activated by October 
4, 2016.

    Signed at Washington, DC, this 13th day of October 2011.
Ronald K. Lorentzen,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Import Administration, Alternate 
Chairman, Foreign-Trade Zones Board.
    Attest:

Andrew McGilvray,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2011-27299 Filed 10-20-11; 8:45 am]
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