[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 57 (Tuesday, March 25, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Pages 16279-16280]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-06577]


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 DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Order No. 1934]


Foreign-Trade Zones 1 and 111, Merger and Reorganization under 
Alternative Site Framework, New York, New York

    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 City of New York, grantee of Foreign-Trade Zones 1 and 
111, submitted an application to the Board (FTZ Docket B-90-2013, 
docketed 10-21-2013) for authority to merge FTZs 1 and 111 under FTZ 1 
and reorganize the merged zone under the ASF with a service area of New 
York, Bronx, Kings, Queens, and Richmond Counties, New York, in and 
adjacent to the New York/Newark and John F. Kennedy International 
Airport Customs and Border Protection ports of entry, FTZ 1's existing 
Sites 1, 2, 3 and 5 would be categorized as magnet sites, existing Site 
4 as a usage-driven site, and existing Site 1 of FTZ 111 would be 
renumbered as Site 6 of FTZ 1 and categorized as a magnet site;
    Whereas, notice inviting public comment was given in the Federal 
Register (78 FR 63963, 10-25-2013) 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;
    Now, therefore, the Board hereby orders:
    The application to merge FTZ 1 and FTZ 111 under FTZ 1 and 
reorganize the merged zone under the ASF is approved, subject to the 
FTZ Act and the Board's regulations, including Section 400.13, to the 
Board's standard

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2,000-acre activation limit for the zone, to a ten-year ASF sunset 
provision for a magnet site that would terminate authority for Site 6 
if not activated by March 31, 2024, to a five-year ASF sunset provision 
for magnet sites that would terminate authority for Sites 2, 3 and 5 if 
not activated by March 31, 2019, and to a three-year ASF sunset 
provision for usage-driven sites that would terminate authority for 
Site 4 if no foreign-status merchandise is admitted for a bona fide 
customs purpose by March 31, 2017.

    Signed at Washington, DC, this 18th day of March 2014.
Paul Piquado,
Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Enforcement and Compliance, 
Alternate Chairman, Foreign-Trade Zones Board.

Attest:
Andrew McGilvray,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2014-06577 Filed 3-24-14; 8:45 am]
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