[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 215 (Monday, November 8, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Page 68605]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-28161]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Order No. 1721]


Reorganization of Foreign-Trade Zone 177 Under Alternative Site 
Framework; Mount Vernon/Evansville, Indiana

    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 Ports of Indiana, grantee of Foreign-Trade Zone 177, 
submitted an application to the Board (FTZ Docket 27-2010, filed 4/22/
2010) for authority to reorganize under the ASF with a service area of 
Vanderburgh, Dubois, Pike, Gibson, Knox, Daviess, Spencer, Warrick and 
Posey Counties, Indiana, adjacent to the Owensboro-Evansville Customs 
and Border Protection port of entry, and FTZ 177's existing Sites 1 
through 4 would be categorized as magnet sites;
    Whereas, notice inviting public comment was given in the Federal 
Register (75 FR 24570-24571, 5/5/2010) 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 177 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, 3 and 4 if not activated by November 
30, 2015.

    Signed at Washington, DC, this 29th day of October 2010.
Ronald K. Lorentzen,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Import Administration, Alternate 
Chairman, Foreign-Trade Zones Board.
    Attest:

Andrew McGilvray,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2010-28161 Filed 11-5-10; 8:45 am]
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