[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 244 (Wednesday, December 19, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Pages 75144-75145]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-30567]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Foreign-Trade Zones Board
[B-89-2012]
Foreign-Trade Zone 277--Western Maricopa County, AZ; Application
for Expansion; (New Magnet Site) Under Alternative Site Framework
An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones (FTZ)
Board (the Board) by the Greater Maricopa Foreign-Trade Zone, Inc.,
grantee of Foreign-Trade Zone 277, requesting authority to expand its
zone under the alternative site framework (ASF) adopted by the Board
(15 CFR Sec. 400.2(c)) to include two additional new magnet sites in
western Maricopa County, Arizona and request usage-driven designation
for an existing temporary site. The application was submitted pursuant
to the Foreign-Trade Zones Act, as amended (19 U.S.C. 81a-81u) and the
regulations of the Board (15 CFR part 400). It was formally docketed on
December 12, 2012.
FTZ 277 was approved by the Board on December 22, 2010 (Board Order
1733, 76 FR 1134, 01/07/2011) and was reorganized under the ASF on
December 16, 2011 (Board Order 1804, 76 FR 80886, 12/27/2011). The zone
project currently has a service area that includes a portion of
Maricopa County, Arizona.
The current zone project includes the following magnet sites: Site
1 (230.25 acres)--within the 416-acre Airport Gateway at Goodyear
industrial complex, Bullard Avenue and Van Buren Street, Goodyear; Site
2 (133.01 acres)--within the 286-acre Surprise Pointe Business Park,
Waddell Road and Litchfield Road, Surprise; Site 3 (234.84 acres)--
within the 1,600-acre Palm Valley 303 Industrial Park, Camelback Road
and State Road 303, Goodyear; and, Site 4 (319.84 acres)--within the
1,314-acre 10 West Logistics Center, Van Buren Street and Interstate 10
at 339th
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Avenue, Maricopa County. The zone also includes two sites which were
approved on a temporary basis: Site 5 (13.67 acres)--Suntech Arizona,
Inc., 3801 S. Cotton Lane, Goodyear; and, Site 6 (3.53 acres)--
Schoeller Arca Systems, Inc., 4320 S. Cotton Lane, Goodyear.
The applicant is now requesting authority to expand its zone
project in western Maricopa County as follows: include an additional
magnet site (proposed Site 7--185 acres) at the Buckeye Industrial
Park, southeast corner of Turner Road and Baseline Road, Buckeye;
expand existing Site 5 to include an additional 184.33 acres (total
acreage 198 acres) and request magnet designation for the site; and,
request that existing Site 6 be designated as a usage-driven site for
the sole use of Schoeller Arca Systems, Inc. The proposed new and the
existing sites are located adjacent to the Phoenix, Arizona U.S.
Customs and Border Protection Ports of Entry.
In accordance with the Board's regulations, Christopher Kemp of the
FTZ Staff is designated examiner to evaluate and analyze the facts and
information presented in the application and case record and to report
findings and recommendations to the Board.
Public comment is invited from interested parties. Submissions
shall be addressed to the Board's Executive Secretary at the address
below. The closing period for their receipt is February 19, 2013.
Rebuttal comments in response to material submitted during the
foregoing period may be submitted during the subsequent 15-day period
to March 4, 2013.
A copy of the application will be available for public inspection
at the Office of the Executive Secretary, Foreign-Trade Zones Board,
Room 21013, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue NW.,
Washington, DC 20230-0002, and in the ``Reading Room'' section of the
Board's Web site, which is accessible via www.trade.gov/ftz. For
further information, contact Christopher Kemp at
[email protected] or (202) 482-0862.
Dated: December 12, 2012.
Andrew McGilvray,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2012-30567 Filed 12-18-12; 8:45 am]
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