[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 235 (Wednesday, December 7, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Pages 88213-88214]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2016-29350]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Order No. 2020 ]


Reorganization of Foreign-Trade Zone 20 (Expansion of Service 
Area) Under Alternative Site Framework; Norfolk, Virginia

    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 Virginia Port Authority, grantee of Foreign-Trade Zone 
20, submitted an application to the Board (FTZ Docket B-31-2016, 
docketed May 9, 2016) for authority to expand the service area of the 
zone to include Elizabeth City, North Carolina and the Counties of 
Camden, Chowan, Currituck, Gates, Hertford, Pasquotank and Perquimans, 
North Carolina as described in the application, adjacent to the 
Norfolk-Newport News Customs and Border Protection port of entry;
    Whereas, notice inviting public comment was given in the Federal

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Register (81 FR 29838, May 13, 2016) 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 20 to expand the service area 
under the ASF is approved, subject to the FTZ Act and the Board's 
regulations, including Section 400.13, and to the Board's standard 
2,000-acre activation limit for the zone.

    Dated: November 29, 2016.
Paul Piquado,
Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Enforcement and Compliance, 
Alternate Chairman, Foreign-Trade Zones Board.

Attest:
 Andrew McGilvray,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2016-29350 Filed 12-6-16; 8:45 am]
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