[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 35 (Wednesday, February 21, 2018)]
[Notices]
[Pages 7451-7452]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2018-03517]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[B-12-2018]


Foreign-Trade Zone 135--Palm Beach, Florida; Application for 
Reorganization and Expansion Under Alternative Site Framework

    An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones (FTZ) 
Board by

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the Port of Palm Beach District, grantee of FTZ 135, 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 February 9, 2018.
    FTZ 135 was approved by the FTZ Board on March 16, 1987 (Board 
Order 348, 52 FR 9903, March 27, 1987) and expanded on November 8, 2002 
(Board Order 1258, 67 FR 70046, November 20, 2002). The current zone 
includes the following sites: Site 1 (25 acres)--Located at Port of 
Beach Miami Terminal, 1 mile from the Lake Worth Inlet to the Atlantic 
Ocean, Riviera Beach; Site 2 (37 acres)--industrial site located 2 
miles due west of the terminal at I-95 and Highway 710, Riviera Beach; 
Site 3 (11 acres)--TravelPro USA, 700 Banyan Trail, Boca Raton; Site 4 
(66 acres)--Martin County Airport, 1801 SE Airport Road, Stuart; Site 5 
(24 acres total, three parcels)--Palm Beach International Airport, 1300 
N. Perimeter Road, West Palm Beach; Site 6 (286 acres, three parcels)--
North Beach County Airport, located adjacent to Beeline Highway (SR 
710), North Palm Beach; Site 7 (3.56 acres, 155,000 sq. ft.)--
warehouse, 1440 West Indiantown Road, Jupiter; Site 8 (170 acres)--
within the Palm Beach Park of Commerce, located on the Beeline Highway 
(SR 710) near Pratt Whitney Road, south of Indiantown Road, Palm Beach; 
Site 9 (1.44 acres)--Team International Corporation, 6643 42nd Terrace, 
Riviera Beach; Site 10 (11.63 acres)--Viking Sport Cruisers, Inc., Palm 
Harbor Marina, 400 North Flagler Drive, West Palm Beach; Site 11 (31.56 
acres)--Rybovich, 4200 North Flagler Drive, West Palm Beach; and Site 
12 (1.66 acres)--Berth One International, 1 East 11th Street, Riviera 
Beach. Sites 9 through 12 were designated through minor boundary 
modifications pending the grantee's submission of its application to 
reorganize and expand the zone (including Sites 9 through 12) under the 
ASF.
    The grantee's proposed service area under the ASF would be Palm 
Beach County, Martin County and St. Lucie County (with the exception of 
Sites 1 through 4 of FTZ 218, which are located in St. Lucie County), 
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 application indicates that the proposed 
service area is within and adjacent to the West Palm Beach Customs and 
Border Protection port of entry.
    The applicant is requesting authority to reorganize its existing 
zone to include Sites 1, 4, 5, 6 and 8 as ``magnet'' sites and Sites 2, 
3, 7, 9, 10, 11 and 12 as ``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 Site 1 be so exempted.
    In accordance with the FTZ Board's regulations, Qahira El-Amin 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 April 23, 2018. 
Rebuttal comments in response to material submitted during the 
foregoing period may be submitted during the subsequent 15-day period 
to May 7, 2018.
    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 website, which is accessible via www.trade.gov/ftz. For 
further information, contact Qahira El-Amin at [email protected] 
or (202) 482-5928.

    Dated: February 14, 2018.
Andrew McGilvray,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2018-03517 Filed 2-20-18; 8:45 am]
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