[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 93 (Friday, May 13, 2011)]
[Notices]
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From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-11844]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Docket 31-2011]


Foreign-Trade Zone 216--Olympia, Washington; Application for 
Reorganization Under Alternative Site Framework

    An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones (FTZ) 
Board (the Board) by the Port of Olympia, grantee of FTZ 216, 
requesting authority to reorganize the zone under the alternative site 
framework (ASF) 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 May 9, 2011.
    FTZ 216 was approved by the Board on August 16, 1996 (Board Order 
836, 61 FR 45408, 08/29/1996) and expanded on May 8, 2000 (Board Order 
1092, 65 FR 33295, 05/23/2000).
    The current zone project includes the following sites: Site 1 (283 
acres)--within the Port of Olympia terminal at Budd Bay Inlet of Puget 
Sound, adjacent to Interstate 5, Olympia; Site 2 (800 acres)--Olympia 
Airport and adjacent industrial park, Olympia; Site 3 (573 acres)--
Marvin Road Industrial area, Interstate 5 and Highway 510, Lacy; Site 4 
(109 acres)--Yelm Industrial area, Highway 507 and Highway 510, Yelm; 
Site 5 (165 acres)--Port of Centralia Industrial Park, within the Port 
of Centralia, Lewis County; Site 6 (87 acres)--Chehalis Industrial 
area, adjacent to Interstate 5, Chehalis; Site 7 (269 acres)--within 
the Port of Chehalis, 321 Maurin Road, Chehalis; Site 8 (39 acres)--
Klein/South Prairie Industrial Park, 118 Klein Road, Chehalis; Site 9 
(420 acres)--within the Port of Shelton, 21 West Sanderson Way, 
Shelton; Site 10 (130 acres)--John's Prairie Industrial Park, 1970 East 
John's Prairie Road, Shelton; Site 11 (217 acres)--Bremerton Airport 
South, within Port of Bremerton complex, 8850 SW State Road 3, 
Bremerton; Site 12 (312 acres)--Olympia View Industrial Park, Highway 
3, Bremerton; and, Site 13 (24 acres)--67 SW Chehalis Avenue, Chehalis.
    The grantee's proposed service area under the ASF would be all of 
Thurston County and portions of Lewis, Mason and Kitsap Counties, 
Washington, as described in the application. 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 Olympia U.S. Customs and Border Protection 
port of entry.
    The applicant is requesting authority to reorganize its existing 
zone project to include all of the existing sites except Site 8 as 
``magnet'' sites. No usage-driven sites are being requested at this 
time. The applicant is also requesting authority to delete Site 8 and 
remove acreage from Sites 1, 3, 4 and 13, as described in the 
application.
    In accordance with the Board's regulations, Christopher Kemp 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 
July 12, 2011. Rebuttal comments in response to material submitted 
during the foregoing period may be submitted during the subsequent 15-
day period to July 27, 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 Christopher Kemp at 
[email protected] or (202) 482-0862.

    Dated: May 9, 2011.
Andrew McGilvray,
Executive Secretary.
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