[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 54 (Monday, March 21, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Pages 15290-15291]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-6562]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Docket 20-2011]


Foreign-Trade Zone 106--Oklahoma City, OK Application for 
Reorganization/Expansion Under Alternative Site Framework

    An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones (FTZ) 
Board (the Board) by the Port Authority of Greater Oklahoma City, 
grantee of FTZ 106, requesting authority to reorganize and expand the 
zone under the alternative site framework (ASF)

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adopted by the Board (74 FR 1170, 1/12/09 (correction 74 FR 3987, 1/22/
09); 75 FR 71069-71070, 11/22/10). The ASF is an option for grantees 
for the establishment or reorganization of general-purpose zones and 
can permit significantly greater flexibility in the designation of new 
``usage-driven'' FTZ sites for operators/users located within a 
grantee's ``service area'' in the context of the Board's standard 
2,000-acre activation limit for a general-purpose zone project. 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 filed on March 15, 2011.
    FTZ 106 was established by the Board on September 13, 1984 (Board 
Order 271, 49 FR 36133, 9/21/84), and expanded on December 7, 1989 
(Board Order 455, 54 FR 51441, 12/15/89), on February 10, 2000 (Board 
Order 1078, 65 FR 8337-8338, 2/18/00), on September 28, 2007 (Board 
Order 1529, 72 FR 56722-56723, 10/4/07), and on June 26, 2009 (Board 
Order 1628, 74 FR 32892, 7/9/09).
    The current zone project consists of six sites (totaling 1,450 
acres) in the Oklahoma City area: Site 1 (1,061 acres)--within the 
6,700-acre Will Rogers World Airport complex; Site 2 (6 acres)--Biagi 
Bros. Warehouse, 5002 SW 36th, Oklahoma City; Site 8 (30 acres)--Will 
Rogers World Airport NE, immediately northeast of Will Rogers World 
Airport, Oklahoma City; Site 12 (26 acres, sunset 10/31/2012)--ICON 
Center Industrial Park, 300 Arlington, Ada; Site 13 (308 acres)--within 
the 401-acre Guthrie/Edmond Regional Airport, 520 Airport Road, 
Guthrie; and, Site 14 (19 acres, expires 6/30/2014)--Industrial Gasket, 
Inc. dba International Group, facility, 720 South Sara Road, Mustang. 
(Note: Sites 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10 and 11 have expired or were deleted 
through a previous Board action.)
    The grantee's proposed service area under the ASF would be Blaine, 
Caddo, Canadian, Cleveland, Comanche, Custer, Garfield, Garvin, Grady, 
Kay, Kingfisher, Lincoln, Logan, McClain, Noble, Oklahoma, Payne, 
Pontotoc, Pottawatomie, Seminole and Stephens Counties, Oklahoma. If 
approved, the grantee would be able to serve sites throughout the 
service area based on companies' needs for FTZ designation. The 
proposed service area is within and adjacent to the Oklahoma City 
Customs and Border Protection port of entry.
    The applicant is requesting authority to reorganize its existing 
zone project to include existing Sites 12, 13 and 14 as ``magnet 
sites'', existing Site 2 as a ``usage-driven'' site, and combine 
existing Site 1 and Site 8 to become Site 1 (new site total--1,091 
acres) as a magnet site. 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 Site 1 be so 
exempted. The applicant is also requesting approval of two additional 
``magnet'' sites: Proposed Site 15 (67.688 acres)--Enid Woodring 
Regional Airport/Cimarron Industrial Park, 1026 S. 66th, Enid (Garfield 
County); and, Proposed Site 16 (63.434 acres)--Shawnee Regional 
Airport, 2202 Airport Road, Shawnee (Pottawatomie County). Because the 
ASF only pertains to establishing or reorganizing a general-purpose 
zone, the application would have no impact on FTZ 106's authorized 
subzones.
    In accordance with the Board's regulations, Camille Evans 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 Board.
    Public comment is invited from interested parties. Submissions 
(original and 3 copies) shall be addressed to the Board's Executive 
Secretary at the address below. The closing period for their receipt is 
May 20, 2011. Rebuttal comments in response to material submitted 
during the foregoing period may be submitted during the subsequent 15-
day period to June 6, 2011.
    A copy of the application will be available for public inspection 
at the Office of the Executive Secretary, Foreign-Trade Zones Board, 
Room 2111, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue, NW., 
Washington, DC 20230-0002, and in the ``Reading Room'' section of the 
Board's Web site, which is accessible via http://www.trade.gov/ftz. For 
further information, contact Camille Evans at [email protected] 
or (202) 482-2350.

    Dated: March 15, 2011.
Andrew McGilvray,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2011-6562 Filed 3-18-11; 8:45 am]
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