[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 243 (Wednesday, December 19, 2018)]
[Notices]
[Page 65141]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2018-27427]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Order No. 2077]


Reorganization of Foreign-Trade Zone 78 Under Alternative Site 
Framework; Nashville, Tennessee

    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;
    Whereas, the Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson 
County, grantee of Foreign-Trade Zone 78, submitted an application to 
the Board (FTZ Docket B-41-2018, docketed June 28, 2018) for authority 
to reorganize under the ASF with a service area of the Counties of 
Cannon, Cheatham, Davidson, Dickson, Macon, Maury, Montgomery, 
Robertson, Rutherford, Smith, Sumner, Trousdale, Williamson and Wilson, 
Tennessee in and adjacent to the Nashville Customs and Border 
Protection port of entry, FTZ 78's existing Sites 6 and 7 would be 
categorized as magnet sites, and existing Sites 13, 14 and 15 would be 
categorized as usage-driven sites;
    Whereas, notice inviting public comment was given in the Federal 
Register (83 FR 31368, July 5, 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 78 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, to an ASF sunset provision for magnet sites that would terminate 
authority for Site 7 if not activated within five years from the month 
of approval, and to an ASF sunset provision for usage-driven sites that 
would terminate authority for Sites 13, 14 and 15 if no foreign-status 
merchandise is admitted for a bona fide customs purpose within three 
years from the month of approval.

    Dated: December 13, 2018.
Christian B. Marsh,
Acting Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance, Alternate 
Chairman, Foreign-Trade Zones Board.
[FR Doc. 2018-27427 Filed 12-18-18; 8:45 am]
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