[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 173 (Thursday, September 6, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Page 54890]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-21996]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Order No. 1854]


Reorganization of Foreign-Trade Zone 155 Under Alternative Site 
Framework; Calhoun and Victoria Counties, Texas

    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 1170-1173, 01/12/2009; correction 74 FR 3987, 01/22/2009; 75 FR 
71069-71070, 11/22/2010) as an option for the establishment or 
reorganization of zones;
    Whereas, the Calhoun-Victoria Foreign Trade Zone, Inc., grantee of 
Foreign-Trade Zone 155, submitted an application to the Board (FTZ 
Docket 29-2012, filed 04/09/2012) for authority to reorganize under the 
ASF with a service area of the Counties of Calhoun, Victoria and 
Matagorda, Texas, within the Port Lavaca-Point Comfort Customs and 
Border Protection port of entry, FTZ 155's existing Sites 1, 3, 4, 5 
and 6 would be categorized as magnet sites, and FTZ 155's existing 
Sites 2 and 7 would be categorized as usage-driven sites;
    Whereas, notice inviting public comment was given in the Federal 
Register (77 FR 22558, 04/16/2012) 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 
the 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 155 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 zone, to a five-year ASF sunset provision 
for magnet sites that would terminate authority for Sites 1, 3, 4, 5 
and 6 if not activated by August 31, 2017, and to a three-year sunset 
provision for usage-driven sites that would terminate authority for 
Sites 2 and 7 if no foreign-status merchandise is admitted for a bona 
fide customs purpose by August 31, 2015.

    Signed at Washington, DC, this 29th day of August 2012.
Paul Piquado,
Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Import Administration, Alternate 
Chairman, Foreign-Trade Zones Board.

ATTEST:------------
Andrew McGilvray,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2012-21996 Filed 9-5-12; 8:45 am]
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