[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 208 (Friday, October 26, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Page 65361]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-26419]



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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Order No. 1863]


Reorganization/Expansion of Foreign-z Under Alternative Site 
Framework; Galveston, TX

    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) (15 
CFR 400.2(c)) as an option for the establishment or reorganization of 
zones;
    Whereas, the Board of Trustees of the Galveston Wharves, grantee of 
Foreign-Trade Zone 36, submitted an application to the Board (FTZ 
Docket B-41-2012, filed 05/22/2012) for authority to reorganize under 
the ASF with a service area of Galveston County, Texas, within and 
adjacent to the Houston Customs and Border Protection port of entry, 
expand existing Site 2 to restore to zone status 76 acres, FTZ 36's 
Sites 1, 2 (as modified) and 3 would be categorized as magnet sites and 
Sites 4, 5 and 6 would be categorized as usage-driven sites;
    Whereas, notice inviting public comment was given in the Federal 
Register (77 FR 31308, 05/25/2012) and the application has been 
processed pursuant to the FTZ Act and the Board's regulations; and,
    Whereas, the Board adopts the findings and recommendation 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 and expand FTZ 36 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 ASF sunset provisions for 
magnet sites that would terminate authority for Site 2 if not activated 
by October 31, 2022, and for Site 3 if not activated by October 31, 
2017, and to a three-year ASF sunset provision for usage-driven sites 
that would terminate authority for Sites 4, 5 and 6 if no foreign-
status merchandise is admitted for a bona fide customs purpose by 
October 31, 2015.

    Signed at Washington, DC, this 18th day of October 2012.
Paul Piquado,
Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Import Administration, Alternate 
Chairman, Foreign-Trade Zones Board.

    Attest:
Elizabeth Whiteman,
Acting Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2012-26419 Filed 10-25-12; 8:45 am]
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