[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 14 (Friday, January 22, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Page 3781]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2016-01294]



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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[B-2-2016]


Notification of Proposed Production Activity; GE Generators 
(Pensacola) L.L.C.; Subzone 249A (Wind Turbine Nacelles and Hubs); 
Pensacola, Florida

    GE Generators (Pensacola) L.L.C. (GE Generators), operator of 
Subzone 249A, submitted a notification of proposed production activity 
to the FTZ Board, for its facility located in Pensacola, Florida. The 
notification conforming to the requirements of the regulations of the 
FTZ Board (15 CFR 400.22) was received on January 8, 2016.
    GE Generators already has authority to produce wind turbines and 
related blades within Subzone 249A. The current request would add 
finished products (nacelle assemblies and hubs) and foreign-status 
components to the scope of authority. Pursuant to 15 CFR 400.14(b), FTZ 
activity would be limited to the specific foreign-status components and 
specific finished products described in the submitted notification (as 
described below) and subsequently authorized by the FTZ Board.
    Production under FTZ procedures could exempt GE Generators from 
customs duty payments on the foreign status components used in export 
production. On its domestic sales, GE Generators would be able to 
choose the duty rates during customs entry procedures that apply to 
nacelle assemblies and hubs (duty rates--free, 2.5%) for the foreign-
status inputs noted below and in the existing scope of authority. 
Customs duties also could possibly be deferred or reduced on foreign 
status production equipment.
    The components sourced from abroad include: Pitch bearings; hub 
castings; pitch cabinets; pitch drives; gearboxes; main shafts; yaw 
drives; bed plates; yaw bearings; top boxes; main bearings; pillow 
blocks; generator frames; flex couplings; gearbox coolers; gearbox 
isolation pedestals; pillow block housing covers; generator frames and 
legs; blade root spacers; and, elastomeric gearbox mounts (duty rate 
ranges from free to 5.8%).
    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 March 2, 2016.
    A copy of the notification 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 Pierre Duy at [email protected] 
or (202) 482-1378.

    Dated: January 15, 2016.
Andrew McGilvray,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2016-01294 Filed 1-21-16; 8:45 am]
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