[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 100 (Tuesday, May 24, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Pages 30099-30100]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-12790]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Docket 34-2011]


Foreign-Trade Zone 161--Sedgwick County, KS; Application for 
Reorganization/Expansion Under Alternative Site Framework

    An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones (FTZ) 
Board (the Board) by the Board of County Commissioners of Sedgwick 
County, grantee of FTZ 161, requesting authority to reorganize and 
expand the zone under the alternative site framework (ASF) adopted by 
the Board (74 FR 1170-1173, 01/12/09 (correction 74 FR 3987, 01/22/09); 
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 17, 2011.
    FTZ 161 was approved by the Board on September 8, 1989 (Board Order 
438, 54 FR 39558, 09/27/89), and consists of the following sites: Site 
1 (279 acres)--Garvey Industrial Park, 5755 South Hoover Road, Wichita; 
and Site 1A (1.15 acres)--United Warehouse, 901 East 45th Street North, 
Wichita.
    The grantee's proposed service area under the ASF would be Butler, 
Harvey, McPherson, Reno, Saline, Sedgwick and Sumner Counties, Kansas. 
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 Wichita Customs and 
Border Protection port of entry.
    The applicant is requesting authority to reorganize its existing 
zone project under the ASF as follows: Modify Site 1 by removing 119 
acres due to changed circumstances (new acreage--160 acres); renumber 
Site 1A to Site 2; and Sites 1 and 2 would become ``magnet'' sites. 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 2 be so exempted. The applicant is 
also requesting approval of the following initial ``usage-driven'' 
site: Proposed Site 3 (108.6 acres)--Siemens Energy, Inc., Wind Turbine 
Nacelle Assembly Facility, 1000 Commerce Street, Hutchinson (Reno 
County). Because the ASF only pertains to establishing or reorganizing 
a general-purpose zone, the application would have no impact on FTZ 
161'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

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address below. The closing period for their receipt is July 25, 2011. 
Rebuttal comments in response to material submitted during the 
foregoing period may be submitted during the subsequent 15-day period 
to August 8, 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: May 18, 2011.
Andrew McGilvray,
Executive Secretary.
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