[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 25 (Tuesday, February 7, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Page 6058]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-2781]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Order No. 1812]


Reorganization and Expansion of Foreign-Trade Zone 272 Under 
Alternative Site Framework; Counties of Lehigh and Northampton, PA

    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, 01/12/2009; 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 Lehigh Valley Economic Development Corporation, 
grantee of Foreign-Trade Zone 272, submitted an application to the 
Board (FTZ Docket 64-2011, filed 10/13/2011) for authority to 
reorganize and expand under the ASF with a service area of Lehigh and 
Northampton Counties, Pennsylvania, within and adjacent to the Lehigh 
Valley U.S. Customs and Border Protection port of entry, FTZ 272's 
existing Sites 1, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9 would be categorized as magnet 
sites, existing Sites 2, 3 and 4 would be removed, and the grantee 
proposes one initial usage-driven site (Site 10);
    Whereas, notice inviting public comment was given in the Federal 
Register (76 FR 65171-65172, 10/20/2011) 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 
the 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 272 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 5 through 9 if not activated by 
January 31, 2017, and to a three-year ASF sunset provision for usage-
driven sites that would terminate authority for Site 10 if no foreign-
status merchandise is admitted for a bona fide customs purpose by 
January 31, 2015.

    Signed at Washington, DC, this 31 day of January 2012.
Paul Piquado,
Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Import Administration, Alternate 
Chairman, Foreign-Trade Zones Board.
 Andrew McGilvray,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2012-2781 Filed 2-6-12; 8:45 am]
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