[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 102 (Friday, May 26, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Page 34128]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2023-11258]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Order No. 2143]


Reorganization of Foreign-Trade Zone 28 Under Alternative Site 
Framework; New Bedford, Massachusetts

    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 400.2(c)) as an option for the establishment or reorganization of 
zones;
    Whereas, the City of New Bedford, grantee of Foreign-Trade Zone 28, 
submitted an application to the Board (FTZ Docket B-49-2022, docketed 
November 7, 2022) for authority to reorganize under the ASF with a 
service area of Bristol, Barnstable, Dukes, Nantucket, Norfolk and 
Plymouth Counties, Massachusetts, in and adjacent to the New Bedford 
Customs and Border Protection port of entry, and FTZ 28's existing 
Sites 1 and 2 would be categorized as magnet sites;
    Whereas, notice inviting public comment was given in the Federal 
Register (87 FR 68122-68123, November 14, 2022) 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 would be satisfied if approval of the service 
area is limited to Bristol and Plymouth Counties, Massachusetts;
    Now, therefore, the Board hereby orders:
    The application to reorganize FTZ 28 under the ASF is approved in 
part, with a service area limited to Bristol and Plymouth Counties, 
Massachusetts, 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, and to an ASF sunset provision for magnet sites 
that would terminate authority for Sites 1 and 2 if not activated 
within five years from the month of approval.

    Dated: May 22, 2023.
Lisa W. Wang,
Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance, Alternate Chairman, 
Foreign-Trade Zones Board.
[FR Doc. 2023-11258 Filed 5-25-23; 8:45 am]
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