[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 197 (Wednesday, October 12, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Page 63285]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-26366]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Order No. 1786]


Reorganization/Expansion of Foreign-Trade Zone 161 under 
Alternative Site Framework; Sedgwick County, KS

    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, 01/12/2009; 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 Board of County Commissioners of Sedgwick County, 
grantee of Foreign-Trade Zone 161, submitted an application to the 
Board (FTZ Docket 34-2011, filed 5/17/2011) for authority to reorganize 
and expand under the ASF with a service area that includes Butler, 
Harvey, McPherson, Reno, Saline, Sedgwick and Sumner Counties, Kansas, 
within and adjacent to the Wichita Customs and Border Protection port 
of entry; FTZ 161's existing Site 1 would be modified by removing 119 
acres and existing Site 1A would be renumbered as Site 2; Sites 1 and 2 
would be categorized as magnet sites; and, the grantee proposes an 
initial usage-driven site (Site 3);
    Whereas, notice inviting public comment was given in the Federal 
Register (76 FR 30099-30100, 5/24/2011) 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 and expand FTZ 161 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 Site 1 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 3 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: ------------------------------------------------------------
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Andrew McGilvray,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2011-26366 Filed 10-11-11; 8:45 am]
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