[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 249 (Wednesday, December 28, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Page 81476]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-33297]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Order No. 1805 ]


Reorganization of Foreign-Trade Zone 215 Under Alternative Site 
Framework Sebring, FL

    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 the establishment or 
reorganization of general-purpose zones;
    Whereas, the Sebring Airport Authority, grantee of Foreign-Trade 
Zone 215, submitted an application to the Board (FTZ Docket 46-2011, 
filed 06/29/11) for authority to reorganize under the ASF with a 
service area of DeSoto, Glades, Hardee, Hendry, Highlands and 
Okeechobee Counties and the Cities of Belle Glade and Pahokee, Florida, 
within and adjacent to the Port Manatee Customs and Border Protection 
port of entry, and FTZ 215's existing Site 1 would be categorized as a 
magnet site;
    Whereas, notice inviting public comment was given in the Federal 
Register (76 FR 39378-39379, 07/06/11) 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 215 under the alternative site 
framework is approved, subject to the FTZ Act and the Board's 
regulations, including Section 400.28, and to the Board's standard 
2,000-acre activation limit for the overall general-purpose zone 
project.

    Signed at Washington, DC, this 20th day of December 2011.
Paul Piquado,
Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Import Administration, Alternate 
Chairman, Foreign-Trade Zones Board.
    ATTEST:
Andrew McGilvray,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2011-33297 Filed 12-27-11; 8:45 am]
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