[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 172 (Wednesday, September 5, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Pages 54558-54559]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-21865]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Order No. 1846]


Reorganization of Foreign-Trade Zone 189 Under Alternative Site 
Framework, Kent, Ottawa, and Muskegon Counties, MI

    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, 01/12/09; correction 74 FR 3987, 01/22/09; 75 FR 71069-71070, 
11/22/10) as an option for the establishment or reorganization of 
general-purpose zones;
    Whereas, the Kent-Ottawa-Muskegon Foreign-Trade Zone Authority, 
grantee of Foreign-Trade Zone 189, submitted an application to the 
Board (FTZ Docket 12-2012, filed 03/1/2012) for authority to reorganize 
under the ASF with a service area of Kent, Ottawa and Muskegon 
Counties, Michigan, within and adjacent to the Grand Rapids

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Customs and Border Protection port of entry, and FTZ 189's existing 
Sites 1-9 would be categorized as magnet sites;
    Whereas, notice inviting public comment was given in the Federal 
Register (77 FR 14000, 3/8/2012) 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 FTZ 189 under the alternative site 
framework is approved, subject to the FTZ Act and the Board's 
regulations, including Section 400.13, 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 1-8 if not activated by August 31, 2017.

    Signed at Washington, DC, this 17th day of August 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. 2012-21865 Filed 9-4-12; 8:45 am]
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