[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 8 (Monday, January 13, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Pages 2152-2153]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-00396]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Order No. 1924]


Expansion of Foreign-Trade Zone 277 Under Alternative Site 
Framework; Western Maricopa County, Arizona

    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 Sec. 400.2(c)) as an option for the establishment or reorganization 
of zones;
    Whereas, Greater Maricopa Foreign-Trade Zone, Inc., grantee of 
Foreign-Trade Zone 277, submitted an application to the Board (FTZ 
Docket B-89-2012, docketed 12-12-2012) for authority to expand under 
the ASF to include a new magnet site, proposed Site 7, expand existing 
Site 5 to include additional acreage and be designated as a magnet 
site, and designate Site 6 as a usage-driven site, adjacent to the 
Phoenix, Arizona U.S. Customs and Border Protection port of entry;
    Whereas, notice inviting public comment was given in the Federal 
Register (77 FR 75144-75145, 12-19-2012) 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;
    Now, therefore, the Board hereby orders:
    The application to expand FTZ 277 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, to a five-year ASF sunset provision for magnet sites that would 
terminate authority for Site 5 and Site 7 if not activated by December 
31, 2018, and to a three-year ASF sunset provision for usage-driven 
sites that would terminate authority for Site 6 if

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no foreign-status merchandise is admitted for a bona fide customs 
purpose by December 31, 2016.

    Signed at Washington, DC, this 23rd day of December 2013.
Paul Piquado,
Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Enforcement and Compliance, 
Alternate Chairman, Foreign-Trade Zones Board.
ATTEST:----------------------------------------------------------------

Andrew McGilvray,
Executive Secretary.

[FR Doc. 2014-00396 Filed 1-10-14; 8:45 am]
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