[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 216 (Wednesday, November 7, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Pages 66796-66797]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-27286]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[B-79-2012]


Foreign-Trade Zone 147--Reading, PA Application for 
Reorganization Under Alternative Site Framework

    An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones (FTZ) 
Board (the Board) by the FTZ Corporation of Southern Pennsylvania, 
grantee of FTZ 147, 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 November 1, 2012.
    FTZ 147 was approved by the Board on June 28, 1988 (Board Order 
378, 53 FR 26094, 7/11/1988) and expanded on February 25, 1997 (Board 
Order 871, 62 FR 10520-10521, 3/7/1997), November 3, 2005 (Board Order 
1417, 70 FR 69937, 11/18/2005) and May 29, 2009 (Board Order 1615, 74 
FR 28890, 6/18/2009).
    The current zone includes the following sites: Site 1 (865 acres)--
Reading Municipal Airport, 2502 Bernville Road, Reading; Site 2 (6.64 
acres)--Hamm International and KMX International, 2nd and Grand 
Streets, Hamburg; Site 3 (160.71 acres)--Excelsior Industrial Park, 
Maiden Creek Township; Site 4 (272.33)--International Trade District of 
York, York; Site 5 (54.42 acres)--Penn Township Industrial Park, York; 
Site 7 (155 acres)--Greensprings Industrial Park, 305 Green Spring 
Road, York; Site 8 (152 acres)--Fairview Business Park, McCarthy Drive 
and Industrial Drive, Lewisberry; Site 9 (34 acres)--Chambersburg 
Industrial Park, 900 Kriner Road, Chambersburg; Site 10 (1,214 acres)--
Cumberland Valley Business Park, 5121A Coffey Ave., Chambersburg; Site 
11 (310 acres)--ProLogis Park 81, I-81 and Walnut Bottom Road, 
Shippensburg; Site 12 (242 acres)--LogistiCenter, Allen Road Extension 
and Distribution Drive, Carlisle; Site 13 (100 acres)--Capital Business 
Center, 400 First Street, Middletown; Site 14 (164 acres)--Conewago 
Industrial Park, 1100 Zeager

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Road, Elizabethtown; Site 16 (134 acres)--Matrix Development Group, 
1201 South Antrim Way, Greencastle; Site 17 (256 acres)--United 
Business Park, 7810 Olde Scotland Road, Shippensburg; Site 18 (208 
acres)--Key Logistics Park, Centerville Road, Newville; Site 19 (292 
acres)--I-81 Commerce Park, Walnut Bottoms Road, Shippensburg; Site 20 
(14.5 acres)--GlaxoSmithKline, 105 Willow Springs Lane, York; Site 21 
(4.4 acres)--Southern Cross Logistics, Inc., 2800 Concord Road Rd. Ste 
A, York; Site 22 (214 acres)--Caterpillar Logistics, 600 & 601 Memory 
Lane, York; Site 23 (9.17 acres)--D&D Distribution Services, 789 Kings 
Mill Road, York; Site 24 (24 acres)--401 Moulstown Road, Penn Township; 
Site 25 (1 acre)--633-641 Lowther Road, Lewisberry; and, Site 26 (151 
acres)--Guilford Springs Road, Guilford Township.
    The grantee's proposed service area under the ASF would be Berks, 
Cumberland, Dauphin, Franklin, Lancaster and York Counties, 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 Harrisburg Customs and Border Protection port of entry.
    The applicant is requesting authority to reorganize its existing 
zone project to include existing sites 1-5, 7-14, 16-19 and 23-26 as 
``magnet'' sites and existing sites 20-22 as ``usage-driven'' 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. The application 
would have no impact on FTZ 147'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 January 7, 2013. 
Rebuttal comments in response to material submitted during the 
foregoing period may be submitted during the subsequent 15-day period 
to January 22, 2013.
    A copy of the application will be available for public inspection 
at the Office of the Executive Secretary, Foreign-Trade Zones Board, 
Room 21013, 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: November 1, 2012.
Andrew McGilvray,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2012-27286 Filed 11-6-12; 8:45 am]
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