[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 14 (Tuesday, January 22, 2013)]
[Notices]
[Pages 4381-4382]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2013-01184]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[B-3-2013]


Foreign-Trade Zone 45--Portland, Oregon; Application for 
Reorganization and Expansion Under Alternative Site Framework

    An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones (FTZ) 
Board (the Board) by the Port of Portland, grantee of FTZ 45, 
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

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regulations of the Board (15 CFR part 400). It was formally docketed on 
January, 15, 2013.
    FTZ 45 was approved by the Board on December 18, 1978 (Board Order 
140, 43 FR 60323, 12/27/1978) and expanded on April 5, 1991 (Board 
Order 518, 56 FR 16067, 04/19/1991). The current zone includes the 
following sites: Site 1 (1,830 acres)--Rivergate Industrial Park, Port 
Terminal Nos. 5 and 6, and the adjacent Oregon Steel Mills facilities, 
North Marine Drive and North Lombard Street, Portland; Site 2 (1,163 
acres)--Portland International Airport and adjacent Portland 
International Center, 7000 NE Airport Way and NE Alderwood Road, 
Portland; Site 3 (254 acres)--Portland Ship Repair Yard, 5555 N. 
Channel Avenue, Portland; Site 4 (43 acres)--Port Terminal No. 1, 2220 
NW Front Street, Portland; Site 5 (49 acres)--Port Terminal No. 2, 3556 
NW Front Street, Portland; Site 6 (241 acres)--Port Terminal No. 4, 
Port Terminal Road and North Lombard Street, Portland; Site 7 (4 
acres)--Tektronix Inc. 14400 SW Millikan Way, Beaverton; and, Site 8 
(2.5 acres)--Physical Distribution, Inc., 3610 N. Suttle Road, 
Portland.
    The grantee's proposed service area under the ASF would be all of 
Clackamas, Multnomah and Washington Counties, Oregon, 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 
Portland, Oregon U.S. Customs and Border Protection port of entry.
    The applicant is requesting authority to reorganize its existing 
zone project to include Sites 1, 2, 3 and 6 as ``magnet'' sites and 
Site 7 as a ``usage-driven'' site. 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 applicant is also requesting as part of the 
reorganization that Sites 4, 5 and 8 be removed from the zone project 
and that acreage be reduced at Site 2. In addition, the applicant is 
also requesting the approval of the following new magnet site: Proposed 
Site 9 (173 acres)--Gresham Vista Business Park, NE Glisan Street and 
SE Stark Street, between NE 223rd and NE 242nd Avenues, Gresham 
(Multnomah County). The application would have no impact on FTZ 45's 
previously authorized subzones.
    In accordance with the Board's regulations, Christopher Kemp 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 March 25, 2013. Rebuttal 
comments in response to material submitted during the foregoing period 
may be submitted during the subsequent 15-day period to April 8, 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 Christopher Kemp at 
[email protected] or (202) 482-0862.

    Dated: January 15, 2013.
Andrew McGilvray,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2013-01184 Filed 1-18-13; 8:45 am]
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