[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 153 (Tuesday, August 9, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Page 52614]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2016-18784]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Order No. 2009]


Expansion of Foreign-Trade Zone 149 Under Alternative Site 
Framework Freeport, Texas

    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 Sec. 400.2(c)) as an option for the establishment or reorganization 
of zones;
    Whereas, Port Freeport, grantee of Foreign-Trade Zone 149, 
submitted an application to the Board (FTZ Docket B-65-2015, docketed 
September 22, 2015) for authority to expand existing Site 1 of the zone 
under the ASF to include additional acreage in Freeport, Texas, 
adjacent to the Freeport Customs and Border Protection port of entry;
    Whereas, notice inviting public comment was given in the Federal 
Register (80 FR 58464, September 29, 2015) and the application has been 
processed pursuant to the FTZ Act and the Board's regulations; and,
    Whereas, the Board adopts the findings and recommendation 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 expand FTZ 149--Site 1 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.

    Signed at Washington, DC, this 29th day of 2016.
Ronald K. Lorentzen,
Acting Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Enforcement and Compliance, 
Alternate Chairman, Foreign-Trade Zones Board.
[FR Doc. 2016-18784 Filed 8-8-16; 8:45 am]
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