[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 5 (Tuesday, January 8, 2013)]
[Notices]
[Page 1197]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2013-00156]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Order No. 1875]


Reorganization/Expansion of Foreign-Trade Zone 8 Under 
Alternative Site Framework; Toledo, OH

    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) (15 
CFR Sec. 400.2(c)) as an option for the establishment or reorganization 
of zones;
    Whereas, the Toledo-Lucas County Port Authority, grantee of 
Foreign-Trade Zone 8, submitted an application to the Board (FTZ Docket 
B-49-2012, docketed 7/12/2012) for authority to reorganize and expand 
the zone under the ASF with a service area of Sandusky, Henry, Wood, 
Lucas and Defiance Counties, Ohio, in and adjacent to the Toledo-
Sandusky Customs and Border Protection port of entry, FTZ 8's existing 
Sites 1, 2, 4 and 5 would be categorized as magnet sites and Sites 7 
and 8 as usage-driven sites, Site 3 would be removed from the zone and 
the grantee proposes an additional subzone (Subzone 8I) under the ASF;
    Whereas, notice inviting public comment was given in the Federal 
Register (77 FR 43048, 7/23/2012) 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 and expand FTZ 8 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 zone, to a five-year ASF sunset 
provision for magnet sites that would terminate authority for Sites 2, 
4 and 5 if not activated by December 31, 2017, and to three-year ASF 
sunset provisions for subzone/usage-driven sites that would terminate 
authority for Sites 7 and 8 as well as each site of Subzone 8I if no 
foreign-status merchandise is admitted for a bona fide customs purpose 
by December 31, 2015.

    Signed at Washington, DC, this 20th day of December 2012.
Paul Piquado,
Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Import Administration, Alternate 
Chairman, Foreign-Trade Zones Board.

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Andrew McGilvray,
 Executive Secretary.
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