[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 136 (Tuesday, July 20, 2021)]
[Notices]
[Page 38269]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2021-15411]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Order No. 2114]


Reorganization of Foreign-Trade Zone 76 Under Alternative Site 
Framework, Bridgeport, Connecticut

    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 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 Bridgeport Port Authority, grantee of Foreign-Trade 
Zone 76, submitted an application to the Board (FTZ Docket B-24-2021, 
docketed March 19, 2021) for authority to reorganize under the ASF with 
a service area of Fairfield and Litchfield Counties as well as a 
portion of New Haven County, Connecticut, in and adjacent to the 
Bridgeport Customs and Border Protection port of entry, FTZ 76's 
existing Site 5 would be categorized as a magnet site, and existing 
Subzone 76A would become a subzone under the ASF;
    Whereas, notice inviting public comment was given in the Federal 
Register (86 FR 15887, 3/25/2021) 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 76 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 5 if not activated within five years from the month 
of approval, and to an ASF sunset provision for subzone/usage-driven 
sites that would terminate authority for each existing site of Subzone 
76A if no foreign-status merchandise is admitted to the site for a bona 
fide customs purpose within three years from the month of approval.

    Dated: July 15, 2021.
Christian B. Marsh,
Acting Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance, Alternate 
Chairman, Foreign-Trade Zones Board.
[FR Doc. 2021-15411 Filed 7-19-21; 8:45 am]
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