[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 197 (Wednesday, October 12, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Pages 63283-63284]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-26365]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Order No. 1787]


Reorganization of Foreign-Trade Zone 137 under Alternative Site 
Framework Washington Dulles International Airport, VA Area

    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; 
75 FR 71069-71070, 11/22/10) as an option for

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the establishment or reorganization of general-purpose zones;
    Whereas, the Washington Dulles Foreign Trade Zone Inc., grantee of 
Foreign-Trade Zone 137, submitted an application to the Board (FTZ 
Docket 19-2011, filed 03/14/11) for authority to reorganize under the 
ASF with a service area of Frederick, Clarke, Loudoun, Fairfax, 
Fauquier, Prince William and Arlington Counties and the City of 
Alexandria, Virginia, in and adjacent to the Washington Dulles 
International Airport Customs and Border Protection port of entry; the 
non-contiguous parcel of Site 4 would be renumbered as Site 7; FTZ 
137's Sites 1-6 would be categorized as magnet sites; and, Site 7 would 
be categorized as a usage-driven site;
    Whereas, notice inviting public comment was given in the Federal 
Register (76 FR 14900-14901, 03/18/11) and the application has been 
processed pursuant to the FTZ Act and the Board's regulations; and,
    Whereas, the Board adopts the findings and recommendation 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 137 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, to 
a five-year ASF sunset provision for magnet sites that would terminate 
authority for Sites 2-6 if not activated by September 30, 2016, and to 
a three-year ASF sunset provision for usage-driven sites that would 
terminate authority for Site 7 if no foreign-status merchandise is 
admitted for a bona fide customs purpose by September 30, 2014.

    Signed at Washington, DC, this 30th day of September 2011.
Ronald K. Lorentzen
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Import Administration, Alternate 
Chairman, Foreign-Trade Zones Board,
    ATTEST: Andrew McGilvray, Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2011-26365 Filed 10-11-11; 8:45 am]
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