[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 197 (Friday, October 10, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Page 61287]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-24267]


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 DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Order No. 1951]


Reorganization of Foreign-Trade Zone 259 Under Alternative Site 
Framework, Koochiching County, Minnesota

    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, the Koochiching Economic Development Authority, grantee of 
Foreign-Trade Zone 259, submitted an application to the Board (FTZ 
Docket B-34-2014, docketed 04-24-2014) for authority to reorganize 
under the ASF with a service area of Koochiching County, Minnesota, 
within and adjacent to the International Falls Customs and Border 
Protection port of entry, and FTZ 259's existing Sites 1, 2 and 3 would 
be categorized as magnet sites;
    Whereas, notice inviting public comment was given in the Federal 
Register (79 FR 24669, 05-01-2014) 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 
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 reorganize FTZ 259 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, and to a five-year ASF sunset provision for magnet sites that 
would terminate authority for Sites 1 and 3 if not activated by October 
31, 2019.

    Signed at Washington, DC, this 2nd day of October 2014.
Paul Piquado,
Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Enforcement and Compliance, 
Alternate Chairman, Foreign-Trade Zones Board.

Attest:
 Andrew McGilvray,
 Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2014-24267 Filed 10-9-14; 8:45 am]
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