[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 77 (Thursday, April 21, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Pages 23456-23457]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2016-09285]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[B-20-2016]


Foreign-Trade Zone 214--Lenoir County, North Carolina; 
Application for Reorganization/Expansion Under Alternative Site 
Framework

    An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones (FTZ) 
Board by the North Carolina Department of Transportation, grantee of 
FTZ 214, requesting authority to reorganize and expand the zone 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 
Board (15 CFR part 400). It was formally docketed on April 13, 2016.
    FTZ 214 was approved by the FTZ Board on May 7, 1996 (Board Order 
815, 61 FR 27048, May 30, 1996) and expanded on August 14, 2003 (Board 
Order 1281, 68 FR 51965, August 29, 2003) and November 2, 2007 (Board 
Order 1537, 72 FR 65700, November 23, 2007). The grant of authority was 
reissued to the North Carolina Department of Transportation, and FTZs 
66, 67 and 214 were merged into one zone and designated as FTZ 214 on 
February 28, 2014 (Board Order 1932, 79 FR 13987, March 12, 2014).
    The current zone includes the following sites: Site 1 (1,131 
acres)--NC Global Transpark Authority, 3800 Hwy. 58 N, Kinston; Site 2 
(35 acres)--Kanban Logistics, Inc., 1114 Kingsboro Road, Rocky Mount; 
Site 3 (56 acres)--Crown LSP Group, Inc., 400 English Road, Rocky 
Mount; Site 4 (28 acres)--Crown LSP Group, Inc., 1201 Thorpe Road, 
Rocky Mount; Site 5 (390 acres)--Wilmington Port Terminal Complex, 2202 
Burnett Blvd., Wilmington; Site 6 (4 acres)--Morehead City Terminal, 
113 Arendell Street, Morehead City; and, Site 7 (40 acres)--Morehead 
City Terminal, U.S. Highway 70 and State Route 24, Morehead City.
    The grantee's proposed service area under the ASF would be: The 
Counties of Pender, New Hanover, Brunswick, Carteret, Duplin, 
Cumberland, and Columbus within and adjacent to the Wilmington Customs 
and Border Protection port of entry; the Counties of Beaufort, Pitt, 
Hyde, Onslow, Homes, Craven, Pamlico, and Lenoir within and adjacent to 
the Morehead City Customs and Border Protection port of entry; and, the 
Counties of Robeson, Bladen, Wilson, Edgecombe, Nash, Wayne and Greene 
within and adjacent to the Raleigh-Durham Customs and Border Protection 
port of entry, as described in the application. If approved, the 
grantee would be able to serve sites throughout the service area based 
on companies' needs for FTZ designation.
    The applicant is requesting authority to reorganize and expand its 
existing zone as follows: Modify Site 6 to include an additional 124 
acres (new total acreage = 128 acres); existing Sites 1, 5, 6 (as 
modified) and 7 would become ''magnet'' sites; and, existing Sites 2, 
3, and 4 would become ``usage-driven'' sites. The ASF allows for the 
possible exemption of one magnet site from the ``sunset'' time limits 
that generally apply to sites under the ASF, and the applicant proposes 
that Sites 5 and 6 be so exempted or approved with 10-year sunset time 
limits.
    The applicant is also requesting approval of three additional 
magnet sites: Proposed Site 8 (154 acres)--Radio Island, 296 Radio 
Island Road, Beaufort; Proposed Site 9 (1,530 acres)--Wilmington 
International Airport, 1740 Airport Blvd., Wilmington; and, Proposed 
Site 10 (491 acres)--Craven County Industrial Park, 406 Craven Street, 
New Bern. The application would have no impact on FTZ 214's previously 
authorized subzones.
    In accordance with the FTZ Board's regulations, Kathleen Boyce 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 June 20, 2016. 
Rebuttal comments in

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response to material submitted during the foregoing period may be 
submitted during the subsequent 15-day period to July 5, 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 [email protected] or (202) 482-
1346.

    Dated: April 14, 2016.
Andrew McGilvray,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2016-09285 Filed 4-20-16; 8:45 am]
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