[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 173 (Monday, September 8, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Pages 53165-53166]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-21331]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Order No. 1946]


Reorganization of Foreign-Trade Zone 62 Under Alternative Site 
Framework Brownsville, Texas

    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 Brownsville Navigation District, grantee of Foreign-
Trade Zone 62, submitted an application to the Board (FTZ Docket B-103-
2013, docketed 12-04-2013) for authority to reorganize under the ASF 
with a service area of Cameron County, Texas, within and adjacent to 
the Brownsville Customs and Border Protection port of entry, to 
renumber a 71-acre portion of Site 1 as Site 5, and to categorize FTZ 
62's existing Sites 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 as magnet sites;
    Whereas, notice inviting public comment was given in the Federal 
Register (78 FR 73823, 12-09-2013) and the application has been 
processed pursuant to the FTZ Act and the Board's regulations; and,
    Whereas, the Board adopts the findings and 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 FTZ 62 under the ASF is approved, 
subject to the FTZ Act and the Board's regulations,

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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 Sites 2, 3, 4 and 5 if not 
activated by August 31, 2019.

    Signed at Washington, DC, this 29th day of August 2014.
Paul Piquado,
Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Enforcement and Compliance, 
Alternate Chairman, Foreign-Trade Zones Board.
[FR Doc. 2014-21331 Filed 9-5-14; 8:45 am]
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