[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 25 (Tuesday, February 7, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Pages 6058-6059]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-2786]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Order No. 1811]


Reorganization of Foreign-Trade Zone 118 Under Alternative Site 
Framework, Ogdensburg, 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) (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 Ogdensburg Bridge and Port Authority, grantee of 
Foreign-Trade Zone 118, submitted an application to the Board (FTZ 
Docket 56-2011, filed 09/20/2011) for authority to reorganize under the 
ASF with a service area of St. Lawrence County, New York, within and 
adjacent to the Ogdensburg U.S. Customs and Border Protection port of 
entry, and FTZ 118's existing Site 1 and Site 2 would be categorized as 
magnet sites;
    Whereas, notice inviting public comment was given in the Federal 
Register (76 FR 60801, 09/30/2011) and the application has been 
processed pursuant to the FTZ Act and the Board's regulations; and,

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    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 FTZ 118 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 Site 1 if not activated by January 31, 2017.

    Signed at Washington, DC, this 31st day of January 2012.
Paul Piquado,
Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Import Administration, Alternate 
Chairman, Foreign-Trade Zones Board.
    ATTEST:
Andrew McGilvray,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2012-2786 Filed 2-6-12; 8:45 am]
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