[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 64 (Wednesday, April 3, 2013)]
[Notices]
[Page 20090]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2013-07727]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Order No. 1892]


Reorganization of Foreign-Trade Zone 133 Under Alternative Site 
Framework; Quad-Cities, Iowa/Illinois

    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, the Quad-City Foreign-Trade Zone, Inc., grantee of 
Foreign-Trade Zone 133, submitted an application to the Board (FTZ 
Docket B-63-2012, filed 08/08/2012) for authority to reorganize under 
the ASF with a service area of Henderson, Henry, Mercer, Rock Island 
and Warren Counties, Illinois and Cedar, Clinton, Des Moines, Dubuque, 
Henry, Jackson, Johnson, Jones, Lee, Louisa, Muscatine, Scott and 
Washington Counties, Iowa, within and adjacent to the Davenport, Iowa-
Moline and Rock Island, Illinois Customs and Border Protection port of 
entry, and FTZ 133's existing Sites 1 through 5 would be categorized as 
magnet sites;
    Whereas, notice inviting public comment was given in the Federal 
Register (77 FR 48959-48960, 8/15/2012) 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 FTZ 133 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 1 through 5 if not activated by 
March 31, 2018.

    Signed at Washington, DC, this 27th day of March 2013.
Paul Piquado,
Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Import Administration, Alternate 
Chairman, Foreign-Trade Zones Board.
    ATTEST:
Andrew McGilvray,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2013-07727 Filed 4-2-13; 8:45 am]
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