[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 165 (Monday, August 26, 2013)]
[Notices]
[Page 52759]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2013-20766]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Order No. 1911]


Expansion of Foreign-Trade Zone 75 Under Alternative Site 
Framework; Phoenix, Arizona

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 City of Phoenix, grantee of Foreign-Trade Zone 75, 
submitted an application to the Board (FTZ Docket B-87-2012, docketed 
12-07-2012) for authority to expand the zone under the ASF to include 
an additional magnet site, proposed Site 9, within the Phoenix, Arizona 
U.S. Customs and Border Protection port of entry;
    Whereas, notice inviting public comment was given in the Federal 
Register (77 FR 74457-74458, 12-14-2012) 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 expand FTZ 75 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 Site 9 if not activated by August 31, 2018.

    Signed at Washington, DC, this 19th day of August 2013.
Paul Piquado,
Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Import Administration, Alternate 
Chairman, Foreign-Trade Zones Board.
Andrew McGilvray,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2013-20766 Filed 8-23-13; 8:45 am]
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