[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 234 (Tuesday, December 6, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Pages 76122-76123]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-31300]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Order No. 1800]


Reorganization and Expansion of Foreign-Trade Zone 141 Under 
Alternative Site Framework County of Monroe, NY

    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;

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correction 74 FR 3987, 01/22/09; 75 FR 71069-71070, 11/22/10) as an 
option for the establishment or reorganization of general-purpose 
zones;
    Whereas, the County of Monroe, grantee of Foreign-Trade Zone 141, 
submitted an application to the Board (FTZ Docket 29-2011, filed 04/28/
11) for authority to reorganize and expand under the ASF with a service 
area of Monroe County, New York, in and adjacent to the Rochester 
Customs and Border Protection port of entry; remove existing Sites 1, 
3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 10 and 11; FTZ 141's Sites 2, 5 and 9 would be 
categorized as magnet sites; and, Site 12 would be categorized as a 
usage-driven site;
    Whereas, notice inviting public comment was given in the Federal 
Register (76 FR 25301, 05/04/11) 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 and expand FTZ 141 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, 5 and 9 if not activated by 
November 30, 2016, and to a three-year ASF sunset provision for usage-
driven sites that would terminate authority for Site 12 if no foreign-
status merchandise is admitted for a bona fide customs purpose by 
November 30, 2014.

    Signed at Washington, DC, this 28 day of November, 2011.
Paul Piquado,
Assistant Secretary of Commerce, for Import Administration, Alternate 
Chairman, Foreign-Trade Zones Board.
Andrew McGilvray,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2011-31300 Filed 12-5-11; 8:45 am]
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