[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 177 (Wednesday, September 12, 2018)]
[Notices]
[Pages 46142-46143]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2018-19844]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Order No. 2061]


Reorganization of Foreign-Trade Zone 179 Under Alternative Site 
Framework, Madawaska, Maine

    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 Foreign-Trade Zones (FTZ) Act provides for ``. . . the 
establishment . . . of foreign-trade zones in ports of entry of the 
United States, to expedite and encourage foreign commerce, and for 
other purposes,'' and authorizes the Foreign-Trade Zones Board to grant 
to qualified corporations the privilege of establishing foreign-trade 
zones in or adjacent to U.S. Customs and Border Protection ports of 
entry;
    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;

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    Whereas, the Madawaska Foreign-Trade Zone Corporation, grantee of 
Foreign-Trade Zone 179, submitted an application to the Board (FTZ 
Docket B-5-2018, docketed January 25, 2018) for authority to reorganize 
under the ASF with a service area of the towns of Fort Kent, 
Frenchville, Grand Isle, Madawaska, St. Agatha and Van Buren, Maine, in 
and adjacent to the Madawaska Customs and Border Protection port of 
entry, and FTZ 179's existing Site 1 would be removed;
    Whereas, notice inviting public comment was given in the Federal 
Register (83 FR 4466, January 31, 2018), and the application has been 
processed pursuant to the FTZ Act and the Board's regulations; and,
    Whereas, the Board adopts the findings and recommendations 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 reorganize FTZ 179 under the ASF is approved, 
subject to the FTZ Act and the Board's regulations, including Section 
400.13, and to the Board's standard 2,000-acre activation limit for the 
zone.

    Dated: September 6, 2018.
Gary Taverman,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Antidumping and Countervailing Duty 
Operations, performing the non-exclusive functions and duties of the 
Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance, Alternate Chairman, 
Foreign-Trade Zones Board.
[FR Doc. 2018-19844 Filed 9-11-18; 8:45 am]
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