[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 238 (Wednesday, December 11, 2013)]
[Notices]
[Pages 75330-75331]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2013-29461]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Order No. 1921]


Grant of Authority; Establishment of a Foreign-Trade Zone Under 
the Alternative Site Framework Northwest Iowa

    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 Foreign-Trade Zones Act provides for ``. . . the 
establishment . . . of foreign-trade zones in ports of entry of the 
United States, to expedite and encourage foreign commerce, and for 
other purposes,'' and authorizes the Foreign-Trade Zones Board to grant 
to qualified corporations the privilege of establishing foreign-trade 
zones in or adjacent to U.S. Customs and Border Protection ports of 
entry;
    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 Northwest Iowa Development Corporation (the Grantee) 
has made application to the Board (B-4-2013, docketed 1/15/2013), 
requesting the establishment of a foreign-trade zone under the ASF with 
a service area of Cherokee, Lyon, O'Brien, Osceola, Plymouth and Sioux 
Counties, Iowa, adjacent to the Sioux Falls Customs and Border 
Protection port of entry, proposed Site 1 would be categorized as a 
magnet site, and proposed Sites 2 and 3 would be categorized as usage-
driven sites;
    Whereas, notice inviting public comment has been given in the 
Federal Register (78 FR 4382-4383, 1/22/2013) and the application has 
been processed pursuant to the FTZ Act and the Board's regulations; 
and,
    Whereas, the Board adopts the findings and recommendations of the

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examiner's report, and finds that the requirements of the FTZ Act and 
the Board's regulations are satisfied;
    Now, therefore, the Board hereby grants to the Grantee the 
privilege of establishing a foreign-trade zone, designated on the 
records of the Board as Foreign-Trade Zone No. 288, as described in the 
application, and subject to the FTZ Act and the Board's regulations, 
including Section 400.13, to the Board's standard 2,000-acre activation 
limit, to an ASF sunset provision for magnet sites that would terminate 
authority for Site 1 if not activated within five years from the date 
of approval, and to a three-year ASF sunset provision for usage-driven 
sites that would terminate authority for Sites 2 and 3 if no foreign-
status merchandise is admitted for a bona fide customs purpose within 
three years from the date of approval.

    Signed at Washington, DC, this 26th day of November 2013.
Penny Pritzker,
Secretary of Commerce, Chairman and Executive Officer, Foreign-Trade 
Zones Board.
    Attest:
Andrew McGilvray,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2013-29461 Filed 12-10-13; 8:45 am]
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