[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 107 (Monday, June 4, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Page 32930]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-13477]



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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Order No. 1831]


Reorganization/Expansion of Foreign-Trade Zone 74 Under 
Alternative Site Framework Baltimore, MD

    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) in 
December 2008 (74 FR 1170-1173, 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 Baltimore Development Corporation on behalf of the 
City of Baltimore, grantee of Foreign-Trade Zone 74, submitted an 
application to the Board (FTZ Docket 53-2011, filed 8/10/2011; amended 
3/13/2012) for authority to reorganize and expand under the ASF with a 
service area of the City of Baltimore and the Counties of Anne Arundel, 
Baltimore, Cecil and Harford, Maryland, within and adjacent to the 
Baltimore Customs and Border Protection port of entry; FTZ 74's 
existing Sites 1, 3, 5, 10, 11 and 14 would be removed; the boundaries 
of Sites 4, 16 and 17 would be expanded; the boundaries of Sites 2, 6, 
7, 8, 12 and 13 would be reduced; a portion of Site 8 would be 
redesignated as Site 25; Sites 2, 4 and 16 would be categorized as 
magnet sites; Sites 6, 7, 8, 9, 12, 13, 15, 17, 18, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24 
and 25 would be categorized as usage-driven sites; Temporary Sites 19 
and 31 will maintain their current zone designation; and, the grantee 
proposes a new magnet site (Site 26) and four new usage-driven sites 
(Sites 27, 28, 29 and 30);
    Whereas, notice inviting public comment was given in the Federal 
Register (76 FR 50717-50718, 8/16/2011) and the application, as 
amended, 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, as amended, 
is in the public interest;
    Now, therefore, the Board hereby orders:
    The application to reorganize and expand FTZ 74 under the 
alternative site framework is approved, subject to the FTZ Act and the 
Board's regulations, including Section 400.13, 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, 4, 16 and 26 if not activated by 
May 31, 2017, and to a three-year ASF sunset provision for usage-driven 
sites that would terminate authority for Sites 6, 7, 8, 9, 12, 13, 15, 
17, 18, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29 and 30 if no foreign-
status merchandise is admitted for a bona fide customs purpose by May 
31, 2015.

    Signed at Washington, DC, this 24th day of May 2012.
Paul Piquado,
Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Import Administration, Alternate 
Chairman, Foreign-Trade Zones Board.

Attest:
Andrew McGilvray,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2012-13477 Filed 6-1-12; 8:45 am]
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