[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: 2014-24722]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[B-72-2014]


Foreign-Trade Zone 288--Northwest Iowa; Application for 
Reorganization (Expansion of Service Area) Under Alternative Site 
Framework

    An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones (FTZ) 
Board by the Northwest Iowa Development Corporation, grantee of 
Foreign-Trade Zone 288, requesting authority to reorganize the zone to 
expand its service area under the alternative site framework (ASF) 
adopted by the FTZ Board (15 CFR 400.2(c)). The ASF is an option for 
grantees for the establishment or reorganization of zones and can 
permit significantly greater flexibility in the designation of new 
subzones or ``usage-driven'' FTZ sites for operators/users located 
within a grantee's ``service area'' in the context of the FTZ Board's 
standard 2,000-acre activation limit for a zone. The application was 
submitted pursuant to the Foreign-Trade Zones Act, as amended (19 
U.S.C. 81a-81u), and the regulations of the FTZ Board (15 CFR part 
400). It was formally docketed on October 14, 2014.
    FTZ 288 was approved under the ASF by the FTZ Board on November 26, 
2013 (Board Order 1921, 78 FR 75330-75331; 12/11/2013). The zone 
currently has a service area that includes Cherokee, Lyon, O'Brien, 
Osceola, Plymouth and Sioux Counties, Iowa.
    The applicant is now requesting authority to expand the service 
area of the zone to include Woodbury County, Iowa, as described in the 
application. If approved, the grantee would be able to serve sites 
throughout the expanded service area based on companies' needs for FTZ 
designation. The proposed expanded service area is adjacent to the 
Sioux Falls Customs and Border Protection Port of Entry.
    In accordance with the FTZ Board's regulations, Elizabeth Whiteman 
of the FTZ Staff is designated examiner to evaluate and analyze the 
facts and information presented in the application and case record and 
to report findings and recommendations to the FTZ Board.
    Public comment is invited from interested parties. Submissions 
shall be addressed to the FTZ Board's Executive Secretary at the 
address below. The closing period for their receipt is December 16, 
2014. Rebuttal comments in response to material submitted during the 
foregoing period may be submitted during the subsequent 15-day period 
to December 31, 2014.
    A copy of the application will be available for public inspection 
at the Office of the Executive Secretary, Foreign-Trade Zones Board, 
Room 21013, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue NW., 
Washington, DC 20230-0002, and in the ``Reading Room'' section of the 
FTZ Board's Web site, which is accessible via www.trade.gov/ftz. For 
further information, contact Elizabeth Whiteman at 
[email protected] or (202) 482-0473.

    Dated: October 14, 2014.
Andrew McGilvray,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2014-24722 Filed 10-16-14; 8:45 am]
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