[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 129 (Friday, July 5, 2013)]
[Notices]
[Pages 40427-40428]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2013-16170]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Order No. 1905]


Reorganization and Expansion of Foreign-Trade Zone 45 Under 
Alternative Site Framework, Portland, Oregon

    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 Port of Portland, grantee of Foreign-Trade Zone 45, 
submitted an application to the Board (FTZ Docket B-3-2013, docketed 
01/15/2013) for

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authority to reorganize and expand under the ASF with a service area of 
Clackamas, Multnomah and Washington Counties, Oregon, in and adjacent 
to the Portland, Oregon U.S. Customs and Border Protection port of 
entry, FTZ 45's existing Sites 1, 2, 3, 6 and new Site 9 would be 
categorized as magnet sites, and existing Site 7 would be categorized 
as a usage-driven site, acreage would be reduced at Site 2 and Sites 4, 
5 and 8 would be removed from the zone;
    Whereas, notice inviting public comment was given in the Federal 
Register (78 FR 4381-4382, 01/22/2013) and the application has been 
processed pursuant to the FTZ Act and the Board's regulations; and,
    Whereas, the Board adopts the findings and recommendation 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 45 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 2, 3, 6 and 9 if not activated by 
June 30, 2018, and to a three-year ASF sunset provision for usage-
driven sites that would terminate authority for Site 7 if no foreign-
status merchandise is admitted for a bona fide customs purpose by June 
30, 2016.

    Signed at Washington, DC, this 27th day of June 2013.
Paul Piquado,
Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Import Administration, Alternate 
Chairman, Foreign-Trade Zones Board.
    Attest:
Elizabeth Whiteman,
 Acting Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2013-16170 Filed 7-3-13; 8:45 am]
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