[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 248 (Tuesday, December 27, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Page 80886]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-33186]


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 DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Order No. 1804]


Reorganization of Foreign-Trade Zone 277 Under Alternative Site 
Framework; Western Maricopa County, AZ

    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, 01/12/09; 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, Greater Maricopa Foreign-Trade Zone, Inc., grantee of 
Foreign-Trade Zone 277, submitted an application to the Board (FTZ 
Docket 36-2011, filed 05/23/2011) for authority to reorganize under the 
ASF with a service area of a portion of Maricopa County, Arizona, as 
described in the application, adjacent to the Phoenix U.S. Customs and 
Border Protection port of entry, and FTZ 277's existing Sites 1 through 
4 would be categorized as magnet sites;
    Whereas, notice inviting public comment was given in the Federal 
Register (76 FR 30906, 05/27/2011) 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 277 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 a five-year ASF sunset provision for magnet sites that would 
terminate authority for Sites 1 through 4 if not activated by December 
31, 2016.

    Signed at Washington, DC, this 16th day of December, 2011.
Paul Piquado,
Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Import Administration, Alternate 
Chairman, Foreign-Trade Zones Board.

 Andrew McGilvray,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2011-33186 Filed 12-23-11; 8:45 am]
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