[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 12 (Thursday, January 19, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Pages 2698-2699]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-979]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Docket 04-2012]


Foreign-Trade Zone 230--Piedmont Triad Area, NC; Application for 
Reorganization Under Alternative Site Framework

    An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones (FTZ) 
Board (the Board) by the Piedmont Triad Partnership, grantee of FTZ 
230, requesting authority to reorganize the zone under the alternative 
site framework (ASF) adopted by the Board (74 FR 1170, 1/12/09 
(correction 74 FR 3987, 1/22/09); 75 FR 71069-71070, 11/22/10). The ASF 
is an option for grantees for the establishment or reorganization of 
general-purpose zones and can permit significantly greater flexibility 
in the designation of new ``usage-driven'' FTZ sites for operators/
users located within a grantee's ``service area'' in the context of the 
Board's standard 2,000-acre activation limit for a general-purpose zone 
project. The application was submitted pursuant to the Foreign-Trade 
Zones Act, as amended (19 U.S.C. 81a-81u), and the regulations of the 
Board (15 CFR part

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400). It was formally filed on January 11, 2012.
    FTZ 230 was approved by the Board on March 11, 1998 (Board Order 
956, 63 FR 13836-13837, 3/23/98) and expanded on June 21, 2007 (Board 
Order 1514, 72 FR 35968, 07/02/07).
    The current zone project includes the following sites: Site 1 (164 
acres)--within the 206-acre Lexington Business Center, Hargrave Road 
and Business Interstate 5, Lexington (Davidson County); Site 2 (2,793 
acres total, 3 parcels)--at Piedmont Triad International Airport area 
(Parcel 1, 2,722 acres), adjacent to U.S. 68 and U.S. 421, Greensboro 
(Guilford County); Bull Ridge Lot 1 (Parcel 2, 55 acres), Pleasant 
Ridge Road, Greensboro (Guilford County); and, 311 F and 311 G Chimney 
Rock Road (Parcel 3, 16 acres), Greensboro (Guilford County); Site 3 
(157 acres total, 2 parcels)--within the East High Point I-85/I-74 
Industrial Corridor in High Point (Guilford County) as follows: Elon 
Place and Kivett Drive (Parcel 1, 47 acres); and, Kivett Drive 
Industrial Park (Parcel 2, 110 acres), Kivett Drive and I-85; Site 4 
(40 acres)--Salem Business Park, Interstate 40, U.S. Highway 52 and 
U.S. Highway 311, Winston-Salem (Forsyth County); Site 5 (125 acres)--
Westwood Industrial Park, adjacent to U.S. Highway 52, Mt. Airy (Surry 
County); Site 6 (373 acres)--Piedmont Triad West, McKinney Road, Mt. 
Airy (Surry County); Site 7 (131 acres, sunset 6/30/12)--SouthPoint 
Business Park, 125 Quality Drive, Mocksville (Davie County); Site 8 (9 
acres total, 2 parcels, sunset 6/30/12)--TST Logistics warehouse 
facilities, 533 North Park Avenue (Site 8A--7 acres) and 673 Gilmer 
Street (Site 8B--2 acres), Burlington (Alamance County); Site 9 (107 
acres, sunset 6/30/12)--within the 112-acre Piedmont Corporate Park, 
located on National Service Road which runs parallel to Interstate 40, 
High Point (Guilford County); Site 10 (149 acres, sunset 6/30/12)--
within the 163-acre Premier Center located at NC Highway 68 and Premier 
Drive, High Point (Guilford County); Site 11 (115 acres total, 4 
parcels, sunset 6/30/12)--within the 1,100-acre Piedmont Centre Park in 
High Point as follows: Eagle Hill Business Park (Parcel A, 32 acres) 
located at 4183, 4189, 4193 and 4197 Eagle Hill Drive; Federal Ridge 
Business Park (Parcel B, 39 acres) at 4300, 4328, 4336, 4344, 4380 and 
4388 Federal Drive; Green Point Business Park (Parcel C, 23 acres) 
located at 4500, 4501, 4523 and 4524 Green Point Drive; and, Lowell's 
Run (Parcel D, 21 acres) located at 4487 Premier Drive; Site 12 (4 
acres, sunset 6/30/12)--TST Logistics warehouse facility, 1941 Haw 
River Hopedale Road, Haw River (Alamance County); Site 13 (2 acres, 
sunset 6/30/12)--TST Logistics warehouse facility, 821 West Center 
Street, Mebane (Alamance County); Site 14 (18 acres, expires 3/31/13)--
Old Dominion Freight Line, Inc. warehouse facility, 100 Don Truell 
Lane, Thomasville (Davidson County); and Site 15 (36 acres)--Union 
Cross Business Park, 140 and 390 Business Park Drive, Winston-Salem 
(Forsyth County).
    The grantee's proposed service area under the ASF would be 
Alamance, Caswell, Davidson, Davie, Forsyth, Guilford, Montgomery, 
Randolph, Rockingham, Stokes, Surry and Yadkin Counties, as described 
in the application. If approved, the grantee would be able to serve 
sites throughout the service area based on companies' needs for FTZ 
designation. The proposed service area is within/adjacent to the 
Winston-Salem Customs and Border Protection port of entry.
    The applicant is requesting authority to reorganize its existing 
zone project under the ASF as follows: To renumber parcel 2 of Site 2 
as Site 16; to renumber parcel 3 of Site 2 as Site 17; to renumber 
parcel 2 of Site 3 as Site 18; to renumber parcel 2 of Site 8 as Site 
19; to renumber parcel A of Site 11 as Site 20; to renumber parcel C of 
Site 11 as Site 21; and to renumber parcel D of Site 11 as Site 22. 
Sites 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11, 16, 17, 18, 20, 21 and 22 would 
become magnet sites, and Sites 8, 12, 13, 14, 15 and 19 would become 
usage-driven sites.
    The ASF allows for the possible exemption of one magnet site from 
the ``sunset'' time limits that generally apply to sites under the ASF, 
and the applicant proposes that modified magnet Site 2 would be so 
exempted. Because the ASF only pertains to establishing or reorganizing 
a general-purpose zone, the application would have no impact on FTZ 
230's authorized subzones.
    In accordance with the Board's regulations, Kathleen Boyce of the 
FTZ Staff is designated examiner to evaluate and analyze the facts and 
information presented in the application and case record and to report 
findings and recommendations to the Board.
    Public comment is invited from interested parties. Submissions 
(original and 3 copies) shall be addressed to the Board's Executive 
Secretary at the address below. The closing period for their receipt is 
March 19, 2012. Rebuttal comments in response to material submitted 
during the foregoing period may be submitted during the subsequent 15-
day period to April 3, 2012.
    A copy of the application will be available for public inspection 
at the Office of the Executive Secretary, Foreign-Trade Zones Board, 
Room 2111, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue NW., 
Washington, DC 20230-0002, and in the ``Reading Room'' section of the 
Board's Web site, which is accessible via www.trade.gov/ftz. For 
further information, contact Kathleen Boyce at [email protected] 
or (202) 482-1346.

    Dated: January 11, 2012.
Andrew McGilvray,
Executive Secretary.
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