[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 158 (Wednesday, August 15, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Pages 48959-48960]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-19946]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[B-63-2012]


Foreign-Trade Zone 133--Quad-Cities, Iowa/Illinois Application 
for Reorganization Under Alternative Site Framework

    An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones (FTZ) 
Board (the Board) by the Quad-City Foreign-Trade Zone, Inc., grantee of 
FTZ 133, requesting authority to reorganize the zone under the 
alternative site framework (ASF) adopted by the Board (15 CFR 
400.2(c)). The ASF is an option for grantees for the establishment or 
reorganization of zones and can permit significantly greater 
flexibility in the designation of new subzones or ``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 zone. 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 400). It was formally filed on August 8, 2012.
    FTZ 133 was approved by the Board on October 29, 1986 (Board Order 
338, 51 FR 40238, 11-5-1986) and expanded on March 31, 2011 (Board 
Order 1749, 76 FR 19746, 4-8-2011).
    The current zone includes the following sites: Site 1 (223 acres)--
River Cities Industrial Center, 200 East 90th Street, Davenport, Iowa; 
Site 2 (33 acres)--Rock Island Arsenal, 1775 East Street, Rock Island, 
Illinois; Site 3 (55 acres)--Modern Warehousing, 801 1st Street East, 
Milan, Illinois; Site 4 (200 acres)--Eastern Iowa Industrial Center, 
Northeast of I-80 and Highway 130, Davenport, Iowa; and, Site 5 (187 
acres)--Iowa Research Commerce & Technology Park, Northwest of I-80 and 
Highway 61, Davenport, Iowa.
    The grantee's proposed service area under the ASF would be 
Henderson, Henry, Mercer, Rock Island and Warren Counties, Illinois as 
well as Cedar, Clinton, Des Moines, Dubuque, Henry, Jackson, Johnson, 
Jones, Lee, Louisa, Muscatine, Scott and Washington Counties, Iowa, 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 and adjacent to 
the Davenport, Iowa-Moline and Rock Island, Illinois Customs and Border 
Protection port of entry.
    The applicant is requesting authority to reorganize its existing 
zone project to

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include all of the existing sites as ``magnet'' 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 Site 1 be so exempted. No subzones/usage-driven sites are 
being requested at this time. The application would have no impact on 
FTZ 133's previously authorized subzones.
    In accordance with the Board's regulations, Elizabeth Whiteman 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 
shall be addressed to the Board's Executive Secretary at the address 
below. The closing period for their receipt is October 15, 2012. 
Rebuttal comments in response to material submitted during the 
foregoing period may be submitted during the subsequent 15-day period 
to October 29, 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 Elizabeth Whiteman at 
[email protected] or (202) 482-0473.

    Dated: August 8, 2012.
Andrew McGilvray,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2012-19946 Filed 8-14-12; 8:45 am]
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