[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 79 (Tuesday, April 24, 2012)]
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From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-9821]



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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Order No. 1824]


Reorganization of Foreign-Trade Zone 226 Under Alternative Site 
Framework Merced County, CA

    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 Board of Supervisors of the County of Merced, grantee 
of Foreign-Trade Zone 226, submitted an application to the Board (FTZ 
Docket 84-2011, filed 12/23/2011) for authority to reorganize under the 
ASF with a service area which includes portions of Fresno, Kings, 
Madera, Mariposa, Merced, Stanislaus and Tulare Counties, California as 
its service area, as described in the application, within and adjacent 
to the Fresno U.S. Customs and Border Protection port of entry, and FTZ 
226's existing Sites 1, 2, 9, 10 and 11 would be categorized as magnet 
sites, existing Site 8 would be categorized as a usage-driven site, 
Sites 3, 4, 6, 7, 12 and 13 would be deleted and acreage reduced at 
existing Site 1;
    Whereas, notice inviting public comment was given in the Federal 
Register (76 FR 81912-81913, 12/29/2011) 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 
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 226 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 five-year ASF sunset provisions for magnet sites that would 
terminate authority for Sites 2, 9 10 and 11 if not activated by April 
30, 2017, and to a three-year sunset provision for usage-driven sites 
that would terminate authority for Site 8 if no foreign-status 
merchandise is admitted for a bona fide customs purpose by April 30, 
2015.

    Signed at Washington, DC, this 16th day of April 2012.
Paul Piquado,
Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Import Administration, Alternate 
Chairman Foreign-Trade Zones Board.

ATTEST:

Andrew McGilvray,
Executive Secretary.

[FR Doc. 2012-9821 Filed 4-23-12; 8:45 am]
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