[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 201 (Tuesday, October 19, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Page 64276]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-26275]


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 DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Order No. 1712]


Reorganization/Expansion of Foreign-Trade Zone 196 Under 
Alternative Site Framework Fort Worth, 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, the Alliance Corridor, Inc., grantee of Foreign-Trade Zone 
196, submitted an application to the Board (FTZ Docket 18-2010, filed 
3/16/2010) for authority to reorganize under the ASF with a service 
area that includes the Alliance Corridor area of Denton and Tarrant 
Counties, Texas, adjacent to the Alliance Customs and Border Protection 
user fee airport, FTZ 196's existing Sites 1-4 would be categorized as 
magnet sites and the grantee proposes an initial usage-driven site 
(Site 5);
    Whereas, notice inviting public comment was given in the Federal 
Register (75 FR 14127-14128, 3/24/2010) 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 196 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 and 4 if not activated by October 31, 2015, 
and to a three-year ASF sunset provision for usage-driven sites that 
would terminate authority for Site 5 if no foreign-status merchandise 
is admitted for a bona fide customs purpose by October 31, 2013.

    Signed at Washington, DC, October 7, 2010.
Ronald K. Lorentzen,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Import Administration, Alternate 
Chairman, Foreign-Trade Zones Board.
[FR Doc. 2010-26275 Filed 10-18-10; 8:45 am]
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