[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 116 (Monday, June 17, 2013)]
[Notices]
[Pages 36165-36166]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2013-14344]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Order No. 1902]


Reorganization and Expansion of Foreign-Trade Zone 79 Under 
Alternative Site Framework Tampa, Florida

    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) (74 
FR 1170-1173, 01/12/2009; correction 74 FR 3987, 01/22/2009; 75 FR 
71069-71070, 11/22/2010) as an option for the establishment or 
reorganization of general-purpose zones;
    Whereas, the City of Tampa, grantee of Foreign-Trade Zone 79, 
submitted an application to the Board (FTZ Docket 24-2012, filed 03/23/
12) for authority to reorganize and expand under the ASF with a service 
area of the Counties of

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Hillsborough and Polk and the City of Tampa, within and adjacent to the 
Tampa Customs and Border Protection port of entry; FTZ 79's existing 
Sites 2, 4, 5, 6 and 7 and proposed site 9 would be categorized as 
magnet sites; proposed Site 10 would be categorized as a usage-driven 
site; and, Sites 1 and 3 would be removed.
    Whereas, notice inviting public comment was given in the Federal 
Register (77 FR 19001-19002, 03/29/12), 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 (including for the removal of Site 8) 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 79 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 sunset 
provision for magnet sites that would terminate authority for Sites 2, 
4, 6, 7 and 9 if not activated by June 30, 2018, and to a three-year 
ASF sunset provision for a usage-driven site that would terminate 
authority for Site 10 if no foreign status merchandise is admitted for 
a bona fide customs purpose by June 30, 2016.

    Signed at Washington, DC, this 10th day of June 2013.
Paul Piquado,
Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Import Administration, Alternate 
Chairman, Foreign-Trade Zones Board.
Attest:
Andrew McGilvray,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2013-14344 Filed 6-14-13; 8:45 am]
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