[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 137 (Monday, July 19, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Page 41819]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-17539]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Order No. 1696]


Reorganization/Expansion of Foreign-Trade Zone 17 under 
Alternative Site Framework, Kansas City, KS

    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, the Greater Kansas City Foreign-Trade Zone, Inc., grantee 
of Foreign-Trade Zone 17, submitted an application to the Board (FTZ 
Docket 45-2009, filed 10/22/2009) for authority to reorganize under the 
ASF with a service area of Wyandotte, Johnson, Douglas, Shawnee, 
Leavenworth and Miami Counties, Kansas, within and adjacent to the 
Kansas City Customs and Border Protection port of entry, and FTZ 17's 
existing Sites 2, 3, 5, 6, 7 and 8 would be categorized as magnet 
sites, existing Site 4 would be categorized as a usage-driven site, 
existing Site 1 would be deleted, and the grantee proposes two initial 
usage-driven sites (Sites 9 and 10);
    Whereas, notice inviting public comment was given in the Federal 
Register (74 FR 55813, 10/29/2009) 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 
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 17 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, to 
a five-year ASF sunset provision for magnet sites that would terminate 
authority for Sites 2, 3, 5, 6, 7 and 8 if not activated by July 31, 
2015, and to a three-year ASF sunset provision for usage-driven sites 
that would terminate authority for Sites 4, 9 and 10 if no foreign-
status merchandise is admitted for a bona fide customs purpose by July 
31, 2013.

    Signed at Washington, DC, this 8th day of July 2010.
Ronald K. Lorentzen,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Import Administration, Alternate 
Chairman, Foreign-Trade Zones Board.
    Attest:
Andrew McGilvray,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2010-17539 Filed 7-16-10; 8:45 am]
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