[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 65 (Thursday, April 4, 2013)]
[Notices]
[Page 20296]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2013-07757]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Order No. 1891]


Reorganization and Expansion of Foreign-Trade Zone 35 under 
Alternative Site Framework; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    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 Philadelphia Regional Port Authority, grantee of 
Foreign-Trade Zone 35, submitted an application to the Board (FTZ 
Docket B-75-2012, docketed 10/19/2012) for authority to reorganize 
under the ASF with a service area of Philadelphia, Delaware, Bucks, 
Montgomery, Chester, Lancaster and Berks Counties, Pennsylvania, in and 
adjacent to the Philadelphia Customs and Border Protection port of 
entry, FTZ 35's existing Sites 1-4, 6, 10 and 12 would be categorized 
as magnet sites, existing Sites 7, 8 and 11 as usage-driven sites and 
the grantee proposes three additional usage-driven sites (Sites 13-15);
    Whereas, notice inviting public comment was given in the Federal 
Register (77 FR 64953, 10/24/2012) 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 35 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, to a five-year ASF sunset provision for magnet sites that 
would terminate authority for Sites 1-4, 6, 10 and 12 if not activated 
by March 31, 2018, and to a three-year ASF sunset provision for usage-
driven sites that would terminate authority for Sites 7, 8, 11, and 13-
15 if no foreign-status merchandise is admitted for a bona fide customs 
purpose by March 31, 2016.


    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.
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Andrew McGilvray,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2013-07757 Filed 4-3-13; 8:45 am]
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