[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 17 (Wednesday, January 27, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Page 4355]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-1631]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Order No. 1659]


Reorganization of Foreign-Trade Zone 234 Under Alternative Site 
Framework, Gregg County, TX

    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) in 
December 2008 (74 FR 1170, 01/12/09; correction 74 FR 3987, 01/22/09) 
as an option for the establishment or reorganization of general-purpose 
zones;
    Whereas, Gregg County, Texas, grantee of Foreign-Trade Zone 234, 
submitted an application to the Board (FTZ Docket 27-2009, filed 7/7/
2009) for authority to reorganize under the ASF with a service area of 
Gregg County, Texas, adjacent to the Shreveport-Bossier City Customs 
and Border Protection port of entry, and FTZ 234's existing Sites 1 
through 3 would be categorized as magnet sites;
    Whereas, notice inviting public comment was given in the Federal 
Register (74 FR 34714-34715, 7/17/09) and the application has been 
processed pursuant to the FTZ Act and the Board's regulations; and,
    Whereas, the Board adopts the findings and recommendation of the 
examiner's report, and finds that the requirements of the FTZ Act and 
Board's regulations are satisfied, and that the proposal is in the 
public interest;
    Now, therefore, the Board hereby orders:
    The application to reorganize FTZ 234 under the alternative site 
framework is approved, subject to the FTZ Act and the Board's 
regulations, including Section 400.28, to the Board's standard 2,000-
acre activation limit for the overall general-purpose zone project, and 
to a five-year ASF sunset provision for magnet sites that would 
terminate authority for Sites 2 and 3 if not activated by January 31, 
2015.

    Signed at Washington, DC, this 15th day of January 2010.
Ronald K. Lorentzen,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Import Administration, Alternate 
Chairman, Foreign-Trade Zones Board.
Andrew McGilvray,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2010-1631 Filed 1-26-10; 8:45 am]
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