[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 159 (Monday, August 18, 2014)]
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From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-19541]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Foreign-Trade Zones Board
[B-56-2014]
Foreign-Trade Zone 49--Newark/Elizabeth, New Jersey; Application
for Reorganization and Expansion Under Alternative Site Framework
An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones (FTZ)
Board by The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, grantee of FTZ
49, requesting authority to reorganize and expand the zone under the
alternative site framework (ASF) adopted by the FTZ Board (15 CFR
400.2(c)). The ASF is an option for grantees for the establishment or
reorganization of zones and can permit significantly greater
flexibility in the designation of new subzones or ``usage-driven'' FTZ
sites for operators/users located within a grantee's ``service area''
in the context of the FTZ Board's standard 2,000-acre activation limit
for a zone. 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 August 11, 2014.
FTZ 49 was approved by the Board on April 6, 1979 (Board Order 146,
44 FR 22502, 4/16/79) and expanded on May 26, 1983 (Board Order 211, 48
FR 24958, 6/3/83), on October 23, 1987 (Board Order 365, 52 FR 41599,
10/29/87), on April 19, 1990 (Board Order 470, 55 FR 17478, 4/25/90),
on December 15, 1999 (Board Order 1067, 64 FR 72462-72643, 12/28/99),
on April 14, 2006 (Board Order 1446, 71 FR 23895, 4/25/06), on February
28, 2007 (Board Order 1504, 72 FR 10642-10643, 3/9/07), on July 16,
2009 (Board Order 1634, 74 FR 37688-37689, 7/29/09) and on February 6,
2013 (Board Order 1884, 78 FR 12716, 2/25/13).
The current zone includes the following sites in the Newark/
Elizabeth area: Site 1 (total--2,075 acres, sunset 2/28/18)--Port
Newark/Elizabeth Port Authority Marine Terminal (2,029 acres), a parcel
(23 acres) located at 888 Doremus Avenue, Newark, a parcel (6 acres)
located at 580 Division Street, Elizabeth, and a parcel (17 acres)
located at 251-259 Kapowski Road, Elizabeth; Site 2 (64 acres, sunset
2/28/18)--Global Terminal and Container Services facility (41 acres)
and adjacent Jersey Distribution Services facility (23 acres) Jersey
City/Bayonne; Site 3 (124 acres, sunset 2/28/18)--Port Authority
Industrial Park, adjacent to the Port Newark/Elizabeth Port Authority
Marine Terminal; Site 4 (198 acres, sunset 2/28/18)--Port Authority
Auto Marine Terminal (145 acres) and adjacent 53-acre Greenville
Industrial Park on Upper New York Bay's Port Jersey Channel in Bayonne
and Jersey City; Site 5 (40 acres, sunset 2/28/18)--Newark
International Airport jet fuel storage and distribution system in the
Cities of Newark and Elizabeth (Essex and Union Counties); Site 6 (407
acres, sunset 2/28/18)--within an industrial park located at 100
Central Avenue, Kearny; Site 13 (546 acres, sunset 2/28/18)--Raritan
Center Business Park, 300 Raritan Center, Edison; Temporary Site 14 (2
acres, expires 9/30/15)--National Retail Transportation, Inc., 2700
16th Street, North Bergen; and, Temporary Site 15 (16 acres, expires 1/
31/15)--Western Carriers, Inc., 2400 83rd Street and 8501 West Side
Avenue, N. Bergen. (Note: Sites 7 through 10 sunsetted on 3/31/14.
Sites 11 and 12 sunsetted on 7/31/14.)
The grantee's proposed service area under the ASF would be the
County of Hudson, New Jersey, in its entirety, as well as those parts
of the Counties of Bergen, Essex, Passaic, Union, Middlesex, Monmouth,
Morris and Somerset, New Jersey, which lie within the Port Authority's
jurisdiction known as the Port District, as described in the
application. If approved, the grantee would be able to serve sites
throughout the service area based on companies' needs for FTZ
designation. The proposed service area is within and adjacent to the
Newark/Elizabeth Customs and Border Protection port of entry.
The applicant is requesting authority to reorganize and expand its
existing zone to include existing Sites 1, 2, 3, 4, 6 and 13 as magnet
sites and existing Site 5 and temporary Sites 14 and 15 as usage-driven
sites. The ASF allows for the possible exemption of one magnet site
from the ``sunset'' time limits that generally apply to sites under the
ASF, and the applicant proposes that Site 1 be so exempted. The
application would have no impact on FTZ 49's previously authorized
subzones.
In accordance with the FTZ Board's regulations, Kathleen Boyce 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 FTZ Board.
Public comment is invited from interested parties. Submissions
shall be addressed to the FTZ Board's Executive Secretary at the
address below. The closing period for their receipt is October 17,
2014. Rebuttal comments in response to material submitted during the
foregoing period may be submitted during the subsequent 15-day period
to November 3, 2014.
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
FTZ Board's Web site, which is accessible via www.trade.gov/ftz. For
further information, contact Kathleen Boyce at [email protected]
or (202) 482-1346.
Dated: August 12, 2014.
Andrew McGilvray,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2014-19541 Filed 8-15-14; 8:45 am]
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