[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 201 (Friday, October 17, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Page 62415]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-24721]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Order No. 1950]


Reorganization of Foreign-Trade Zone 207 Under Alternative Site 
Framework, Richmond, Virginia

    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 Capital Region Airport Commission, grantee of Foreign-
Trade Zone 207, submitted an application to the Board (FTZ Docket B-39-
2014, docketed 05-16-2014) for authority to reorganize under the ASF 
with a service area consisting of the Counties of Amelia, Appomattox, 
Brunswick, Buckingham, Caroline, Charles City, Charlotte, Chesterfield, 
Cumberland, Dinwiddie, Essex, Greensville, Goochland, Hanover, Henrico, 
King and Queen, King George, King William, Lancaster, Lunenburg, 
Mecklenburg, Middlesex, New Kent, Northumberland, Nottoway, Powhatan, 
Prince Edward, Prince George, Richmond and Westmoreland and the Cities 
of Colonial Heights, Emporia, Hopewell, Petersburg and Richmond, 
Virginia, within and adjacent to the Richmond Customs and Border 
Protection port of entry, and FTZ 207's existing Sites 1, 2, and 3 
would be categorized as magnet sites;
    Whereas, notice inviting public comment was given in the Federal 
Register (79 FR 29414, 05-22-2014) and the application has been 
processed pursuant to the FTZ Act and the Board's regulations; and,
    Whereas, the Board adopts the findings and 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 207 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 Sites 2 and 3 if not activated by October 
31, 2019.

    Signed at Washington, DC, this 2nd day of October 2014.
Paul Piquado,
Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Import Administration, Alternate 
Chairman, Foreign-Trade Zones Board.

Attest:
 Andrew McGilvray,
 Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2014-24721 Filed 10-16-14; 8:45 am]
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