[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 65 (Tuesday, April 5, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Pages 19551-19552]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2016-07778]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[B-16-2016]


Foreign-Trade Zone 17--Kansas City, Kansas, 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 Greater Kansas City Foreign Trade Zone, Inc., grantee of 
Foreign-Trade Zone 17, requesting authority to reorganize the zone to 
expand its service area under the alternative site framework (ASF) 
adopted by the FTZ Board (15 CFR Sec. 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 March 31, 2016.
    FTZ 17 was approved by the FTZ Board on December 20, 1973 (Board 
Order 97, 39 FR 26, January 2, 1974) and reorganized under the ASF on 
July 8, 2010 (Board Order 1696, 75 FR 41819, July 19, 2010). The zone 
currently has a service area that includes Wyandotte, Johnson, Douglas, 
Shawnee, Leavenworth and Miami Counties, Kansas.
    The applicant is now requesting authority to expand the service 
area of the zone to include Atchison, Jefferson and Franklin Counties, 
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 application indicates that the proposed 
expanded service area is adjacent to the Kansas City Customs and Border 
Protection Port of Entry.
    In accordance with the FTZ Board's regulations, Camille Evans of 
the FTZ

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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 June 6, 2016. 
Rebuttal comments in response to material submitted during the 
foregoing period may be submitted during the subsequent 15-day period 
to June 20, 2016.
    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 Camille Evans at [email protected] 
or (202) 482-2350.

    Dated: March 31, 2016.
Andrew McGilvray,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2016-07778 Filed 4-4-16; 8:45 am]
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