[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 92 (Friday, May 11, 2018)]
[Notices]
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From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2018-10071]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Foreign-Trade Zones Board
[B-29-2018]
Foreign-Trade Zone 198--Volusia and Flagler Counties, Florida;
Application for Reorganization and Expansion Under Alternative Site
Framework
An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones (FTZ)
Board by the County of Volusia, Florida, grantee of FTZ 198, requesting
authority to reorganize the zone 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 Board (15 CFR part 400). It
was formally docketed on May 7, 2018.
FTZ 198 was approved by the FTZ Board on December 17, 1993 (Board
Order 671, 58 FR 68115, December 23, 1993). The current zone includes
the following sites: Site 1 (2,422 acres)--Daytona Beach International
Airport and Daytona Beach Business Park, U.S. Route 92, Daytona; Site 2
(625 acres)--DeLand Airport/Industrial Park, Old Daytona Road, DeLand;
Site 3 (1,304 acres)--Ormond Beach Airport/Business Park, Airport Road,
Ormond Beach; Site 4 (1,200 acres)--Flagler County Airport, State Road
100, Bunnell; and, Site 5 (589 acres)--Pine Lakes/Palm Coast Industrial
Parks, Pine Lakes Highway, Palm Coast.
The grantee's proposed service area under the ASF would be Volusia
County, Florida, 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 application indicates that
the proposed service area is within and adjacent to the Daytona Beach
International Airport Customs and Border Protection user-fee airport.
The applicant is requesting authority to reorganize its existing
zone project under the ASF as follows: Modify Site 1 by adding new
acreage and removing existing acreage due to changed circumstances (new
total acreage--1,989 acres); modified Site 1 would be designated as a
``magnet'' site; and, remove Sites 2, 3, 4 and 5 due to changed
circumstances. 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 modified Site 1 be so
exempted.
In accordance with the FTZ Board's regulations, Qahira El-Amin 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 July 10, 2018.
Rebuttal comments in response to material submitted during the
foregoing period may be submitted during the subsequent 15-day period
to July 25, 2018.
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 website, which is accessible via www.trade.gov/ftz. For
further information, contact Qahira El-Amin at [email protected]
or (202) 482-5928.
Dated: May 7, 2018.
Andrew McGilvray,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2018-10071 Filed 5-10-18; 8:45 am]
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