[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 51 (Thursday, March 15, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Page 15357]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-6299]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Order No. 1816]


Reorganization/Expansion of Foreign-Trade Zone 106 under 
Alternative Site Framework, Oklahoma City, OK

    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 1170-1173, 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 Port Authority of Greater Oklahoma City, grantee of 
Foreign-Trade Zone 106, submitted an application to the Board (FTZ 
Docket 20-2011, filed 3/15/2011) for authority to reorganize and expand 
under the ASF with a service area of Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, 
Cleveland, Comanche, Custer, Garfield, Garvin, Grady, Kay, Kingfisher, 
Lincoln, Logan, McClain, Noble, Oklahoma, Payne, Pontotoc, 
Pottawatomie, Seminole and Stephens Counties, Oklahoma, within and 
adjacent to the Oklahoma City Customs and Border Protection port of 
entry, FTZ 106's existing Sites 1 (as combined with Site 8), 12 and 13 
would be categorized as magnet sites, existing Sites 2 and 14 would be 
categorized as usage-driven sites, and the grantee proposes two new 
magnet sites (Sites 15 and 16);
    Whereas, notice inviting public comment was given in the Federal 
Register (76 FR 15290-15291, 3/21/2011) and the application has been 
processed pursuant to the FTZ Act and the Board's regulations; and,
    Whereas, the Board adopts the findings and 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 and expand FTZ 106 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 12, 13, 15 and 16 if not activated 
by February 28, 2017, and to a three-year ASF sunset provision for 
usage-driven sites that would terminate authority for Sites 2 and 14 if 
no foreign-status merchandise is admitted for a bona fide customs 
purpose by February 28, 2015.

    Signed at Washington, DC, this 29th day of February 2012.
Ronald K. Lorentzen,
Acting Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Import Administration, 
Alternate Chairman, Foreign-Trade Zones Board.
ATTEST:
 Andrew McGilvray,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2012-6299 Filed 3-14-12; 8:45 am]
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