[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 223 (Monday, November 19, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Page 69436]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-27980]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Order No. 1866]


Reorganization of Foreign-Trade Zone 41 (Expansion of Service 
Area), Under Alternative Site Framework; Milwaukee, WI

    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 Port of Milwaukee, grantee of Foreign-Trade Zone 41, 
submitted an application to the Board (FTZ Docket B-40-2012, filed 5/
21/2012) for authority to expand the service area of the zone to 
include Dodge, Fond du Lac, Jefferson, Ozaukee, Rock, Sheboygan, 
Walworth, Washington and Waukesha Counties, Wisconsin, adjacent to the 
Milwaukee, Wisconsin Customs and Border Protection ports of entry, and 
the grantee proposes two additional usage-driven sites (Sites 12 and 
13);
    Whereas, notice inviting public comment was given in the Federal 
Register (77 FR 31307-31308, 5/25/12) 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 41 to expand the service area 
under the alternative site framework is approved, subject to the FTZ 
Act and the Board's regulations, including Section 400.13, and to the 
Board's standard 2,000-acre activation limit for the zone, and to a 
three-year ASF sunset provision for usage-driven sites that would 
terminate authority for Sites 12 and 13 if no foreign-status 
merchandise is admitted for a bona fide customs purpose by November 30, 
2015.

    Signed at Washington, DC, this 5th day of November 2012.
Paul Piquado,
Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Import Administration, Alternate 
Chairman, Foreign-Trade Zones Board.
    Attest:
 Andrew McGilvray,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2012-27980 Filed 11-16-12; 8:45 am]
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