[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 65 (Tuesday, April 5, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Pages 19551-19552]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2016-07778]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Foreign-Trade Zones Board
[B-16-2016]
Foreign-Trade Zone 17--Kansas City, Kansas, Application for
Reorganization, (Expansion of Service Area) Under Alternative Site
Framework
An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones (FTZ)
Board by the Greater Kansas City Foreign Trade Zone, Inc., grantee of
Foreign-Trade Zone 17, requesting authority to reorganize the zone to
expand its service area under the alternative site framework (ASF)
adopted by the FTZ Board (15 CFR Sec. 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 FTZ Board (15 CFR part
400). It was formally docketed on March 31, 2016.
FTZ 17 was approved by the FTZ Board on December 20, 1973 (Board
Order 97, 39 FR 26, January 2, 1974) and reorganized under the ASF on
July 8, 2010 (Board Order 1696, 75 FR 41819, July 19, 2010). The zone
currently has a service area that includes Wyandotte, Johnson, Douglas,
Shawnee, Leavenworth and Miami Counties, Kansas.
The applicant is now requesting authority to expand the service
area of the zone to include Atchison, Jefferson and Franklin Counties,
as described in the application. If approved, the grantee would be able
to serve sites throughout the expanded service area based on companies'
needs for FTZ designation. The application indicates that the proposed
expanded service area is adjacent to the Kansas City Customs and Border
Protection Port of Entry.
In accordance with the FTZ Board's regulations, Camille Evans of
the FTZ
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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 June 6, 2016.
Rebuttal comments in response to material submitted during the
foregoing period may be submitted during the subsequent 15-day period
to June 20, 2016.
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 Camille Evans at [email protected]
or (202) 482-2350.
Dated: March 31, 2016.
Andrew McGilvray,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2016-07778 Filed 4-4-16; 8:45 am]
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