[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 156 (Friday, August 12, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Page 50172]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-20567]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Order No. 1777]


Reorganization of Foreign-Trade Zone 216 Under Alternative Site 
Framework, Olympia, WA

    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) (74 
FR 1170, 01/12/2009; correction 74 FR 3987, 01/22/2009; 75 FR 71069-
71070, 11/22/2010) as an option for the establishment or reorganization 
of general-purpose zones;
    Whereas, the Port of Olympia, grantee of Foreign-Trade Zone 216, 
submitted an application to the Board (FTZ Docket 31-2011, filed 05/09/
2011) for authority to reorganize under the ASF with a service area of 
Thurston County and portions of Kitsap, Lewis and Mason Counties, 
Washington, within and adjacent to the Olympia U.S. Customs and Border 
Protection port of entry, and FTZ 216's existing Sites 1-7 and 9-13 
would be categorized as magnet sites, existing Site 8 would be deleted 
and acreage reduced at existing Sites 1, 3, 4 and 13;
    Whereas, notice inviting public comment was given in the Federal 
Register (76 FR 27987, 05/13/2011) 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 216 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 five-year ASF sunset provisions for magnet sites that would 
terminate authority for Sites 1-7 and 9-13 if not activated by August 
31, 2016.

    Signed at Washington, DC this 3rd day of August 2011.
Ronald K. Lorentzen,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Import Administration, Alternate 
Chairman, Foreign-Trade Zones Board.
[FR Doc. 2011-20567 Filed 8-11-11; 8:45 am]
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