[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 147 (Thursday, July 31, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Page 44390]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-18065]


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 DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Order No. 1944]


Reorganization and Expansion of Foreign-Trade Zone 57; Under 
Alternative Site Framework; Charlotte, North Carolina

    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 Sec. 400.2(c)) as an option for the establishment or reorganization 
of zones;
    Whereas, the Charlotte Regional Partnership, Inc., grantee of 
Foreign-Trade Zone 57, submitted an application to the Board (FTZ 
Docket B-12-2014, docketed 02-07-2014) for authority to reorganize and 
expand under the ASF with a service area consisting of the Counties of 
Alexander, Anson, Caldwell, Cabarrus, Catawba, Cleveland, Gaston, 
Iredell, Lincoln, Mecklenburg, Polk, Rowan, Rutherford, Stanly, and 
Union, within and adjacent to the Charlotte Customs and Border 
Protection port of entry, to combine Sites 1 and 1a as Site 1 and 
expand the site to include 2.769 additional acres, to remove Sites 2 
and 3, to modify Site 7 by removing Parcel 1, and to add a new site 
(Site 17). FTZ 57's modified Sites 1 and 7 would become usage-driven 
sites and existing Site 16 and new Site 17 would be categorized as 
magnet sites;
    Whereas, notice inviting public comment was given in the Federal 
Register (79 FR 8434-8435, 02-12-2014) 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 57 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 Site 16 if not activated by July 31, 
2019, and to a three-year ASF sunset provision for usage-driven sites 
that would terminate authority for Sites 1 and 7 if no foreign-status 
merchandise is admitted for a bona fide customs purpose by July 31, 
2017.

    Signed at Washington, DC, this 17th day of July 2014.
Paul Piquado,
Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Enforcement and Compliance, 
Alternate Chairman, Foreign-Trade Zones Board.
[FR Doc. 2014-18065 Filed 7-30-14; 8:45 am]
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