[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 225 (Wednesday, November 21, 2012)]
[Notices]
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[FR Doc No: 2012-28318]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[B-85-2012]


Foreign-Trade Zone 171--Liberty County, TX; Application for 
Reorganization/Expansion Under Alternative Site Framework

    An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones (FTZ) 
Board (the Board) by the Liberty County Economic Development 
Corporation, grantee of FTZ 171, requesting authority to reorganize and 
expand the zone under the alternative site framework (ASF) adopted by 
the Board (15 CFR Sec. 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 docketed on November 15, 2012.
    FTZ 171 was approved by the Board on January 4, 1991 (Board Order 
501, 56 FR 1166, 1/1/91), and expanded on August 9, 1999 (Board Order 
1049, 64 FR 46181, 8/24/99), on April 15, 2002 (Board Order 1225, 67 FR 
20087, 4/24/02), and on July 22, 2004 (Board Order 1343, 69 FR 45673-
45674, 7/30/04). The current zone includes the following sites: Site 1 
(150 acres)--City of Cleveland's International Industrial Park on 
Highway FM 2025 west of U.S. Highway 59, Cleveland; Site 2 (45 acres)--
Port of Liberty County Industrial Park located on Trinity River, 
Liberty; Site 3 (27 acres)--Port of Liberty County Industrial Park 
located on the Trinity River some 2 miles south of U.S. Highway 90, 
Liberty; Site 4 (24 acres)--within the Cleveland Municipal Airport 
facility, Highway FM 787, Liberty; Site 5 (583.081 acres)--Sjolander 
Plastics Storage Railyard facility, adjacent to Highway 146, 
approximately 2 miles south of Dayton; Site 6 (200 acres, 3 parcels)--
within the western portion of the 15,000-acre Cedar Crossing Industrial 
Park, located between West Bay Road and FM 1405, Baytown; Site 7 
(199.55 acres)--75 South Industrial Park, adjacent to Highway 75 and 
Interstate 45, Huntsville (Walker County); Site 8 (103.15 acres)--75 
North Industrial Park, adjacent to Highway 75 and Interstate 45, 
Huntsville (Walker County); and, Site 9 (2.77 acres)--M&M Designs 
Industrial Park, 1981 Quality Boulevard, Hunstville (Walker County).
    The grantee's proposed service area under the ASF would be the 
Counties of Liberty and Chambers, Texas, 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 
Houston Customs and Border Protection port of entry. The grantee 
proposes to retain its existing sites located in Walker County.
    The applicant is requesting authority to reorganize its existing 
zone project to include existing Sites 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 as ``magnet'' 
sites. The applicant is also requesting approval of a new magnet site: 
Proposed Site 10 (745.959 acres)--AmeriPort Industrial Park located at 
South FM 565 between FM 1405 and Grand Parkway 99 in Baytown (Chambers 
County). The applicant is also requesting that Sites 1, 2, 3 and 9 be 
removed from the zone.
    In accordance with the Board's regulations, Camille Evans 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 22, 2013. 
Rebuttal comments in response to material submitted during the 
foregoing period may be submitted during the subsequent 15-day period 
to February 4, 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 Camille Evans at [email protected] 
or (202) 482-2350.

    Dated: November 15, 2012.
Andrew McGilvray,
Executive Secretary.
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