[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 188 (Friday, September 27, 2013)]
[Notices]
[Page 59650]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2013-23658]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Order No. 1916]


Reorganization of Foreign-Trade Zone 40 Under Alternative Site 
Framework Cleveland, Ohio

    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 Cleveland-Cuyahoga County Port Authority, grantee of 
Foreign-Trade Zone 40, submitted an application to the Board (FTZ 
Docket B-49-2013, docketed 5-17-2013, amended August 15, 2013) for 
authority to reorganize under the ASF with a service area of Cuyahoga, 
Geauga and Lorain Counties, Ohio, in and adjacent to the Cleveland 
Customs and Border Protection port of entry, FTZ 40's existing Sites 1-
22 would be categorized as magnet sites, and existing Site 23 as a 
usage-driven site;
    Whereas, notice inviting public comment was given in the Federal 
Register (78 FR 30863, May 23, 2013) 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 if subject to the sunset limits 
noted below;
    Now, therefore, the Board hereby orders:
    The application to reorganize FTZ 40 under the ASF 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. Approval is also subject to a seven-year ASF sunset provision for 
a magnet site that would terminate authority for Site 16 if not 
activated by September 30, 2020, to a five-year ASF sunset provision 
for magnet sites that would terminate authority for Sites 2-15 and 17-
22 if not activated by September 30, 2018, and to a three-year ASF 
sunset provision for usage-driven sites that would terminate authority 
for Site 23 if no foreign-status merchandise is admitted for a bona 
fide customs purpose by September 30, 2016.

    Signed at Washington, DC, this 17th day of September, 2013.
Paul Piquado,
Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Import Administration, Alternate 
Chairman, Foreign-Trade Zones Board.
Andrew McGilvray,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2013-23658 Filed 9-26-13; 8:45 am]
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