[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 48 (Monday, March 15, 2021)]
[Notices]
[Page 14307]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2021-05298]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[B-18-2021]


Foreign-Trade Zone 158--Vicksburg/Jackson, Mississippi; 
Application for Reorganization (Expansion of Service Area) Under 
Alternative Site Framework

    An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones (FTZ) 
Board by the Greater Mississippi Foreign-Trade Zone, Inc., grantee of 
Foreign-Trade Zone 158, requesting authority to reorganize the zone to 
expand its service area 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 FTZ Board (15 CFR part 
400). It was formally docketed on March 9, 2021.
    FTZ 158 was approved by the FTZ Board on April 11, 1989 (Board 
Order 430, 54 FR 15480 April 18, 1989) and reorganized under the ASF on 
September 6, 2018 (Board Order 2060, 83 FR 46142, September 12, 2018). 
The zone currently has a service area that includes Claiborne, Hinds, 
Madison, Marshall, Pontotoc, Rankin, Tate, Warren and Washington 
Counties and portions of Lee and Tishomingo Counties, Mississippi.
    The applicant is now requesting authority to expand the service 
area of the zone to include Grenada and Panola Counties, as described 
in the application. If approved, the grantee would be able to serve 
sites throughout the expanded service area based on companies' needs 
for FTZ designation. The application indicates that the proposed 
expanded service area is adjacent to the Greenville (Mississippi) and 
Memphis (Tennessee) Customs and Border Protection Ports of Entry.
    In accordance with the FTZ Board's regulations, Camille Evans 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 and sent to: 
[email protected]. The closing period for their receipt is May 14, 2021. 
Rebuttal comments in response to material submitted during the 
foregoing period may be submitted during the subsequent 15-day period 
to June 1, 2021.
    A copy of the application will be available for public inspection 
in the ``Reading Room'' section of the FTZ Board's website, which is 
accessible via www.trade.gov/ftz. For further information, contact 
Camille Evans at [email protected] or (202) 482-2350.

    Dated: March 9, 2021.
Andrew McGilvray,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2021-05298 Filed 3-12-21; 8:45 am]
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