[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 48 (Tuesday, March 12, 2013)]
[Notices]
[Page 15683]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2013-05660]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Order No. 1887]


Reorganization and Expansion of Foreign-Trade Zone 171 Under 
Alternative Site Framework; Liberty County, TX

    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 400.2(c)) as an option for the establishment or reorganization of 
zones;
    Whereas, Liberty County Economic Development Corporation, grantee 
of Foreign-Trade Zone 171, submitted an application to the Board (FTZ 
Docket B-85-2012, docketed 11/14/2012) for authority to reorganize and 
expand under the ASF with a service area of Liberty and Chambers 
Counties, Texas, within and adjacent to the Houston Customs and Border 
Protection port of entry, FTZ 171's Sites 1, 2, 3 and 9 would be 
removed from the zone, existing Sites 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 would be 
categorized as magnet sites, and the grantee proposes a new magnet site 
(Site 10);
    Whereas, notice inviting public comment was given in the Federal 
Register (77 FR 69789, 11/21/2012) 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;
    Now, therefore, the Board hereby orders:
    The application to reorganize and expand FTZ 171 under the ASF 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, and to a five-year ASF sunset provision for magnet sites that 
would terminate authority for Sites 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 10 if not 
activated by March 30, 2018.

    Signed at Washington, DC, this March 5, 2013.
Paul Piquado,
Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Import Administration, Alternate 
Chairman, Foreign-Trade Zones Board.
 Andrew McGilvray,
 Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2013-05660 Filed 3-11-13; 8:45 am]
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