[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 14 (Monday, January 22, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 3909-3910]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-01078]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[B-4-2024]


Foreign-Trade Zone 96--Eagle Pass, Texas; Application for 
Reorganization and Expansion Under Alternative Site Framework

    An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones (FTZ) 
Board by the City of Eagle Pass, grantee of FTZ 96, requesting 
authority to reorganize and expand the zone under the alternative site 
framework (ASF) adopted by the FTZ Board (15 CFR 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 Board (15 CFR part 400). It 
was formally docketed on January 16, 2024.
    FTZ 96 was approved by the FTZ Board on November 22, 1983 (Board

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Order 237, 48 FR 53738, November 29, 1983).
    The current zone includes the following sites: Site 1 (188 acres)--
Eagle Pass Industrial Park, Industrial Boulevard and Brown Street, 
Eagle Pass; Site 2 (17 acres)--City's Mini Industrial Park, Industrial 
Boulevard and Adams Street, Eagle Pass; Site 3 (1,100 acres)--Maverick 
County Airport, U.S, Highway 277, Eagle Pass; and, Site 4 (55 acres)--
located on State Highway 1588 near Highway 277, Eagle Pass.
    The grantee's proposed service area under the ASF would be Maverick 
County, Texas, as described in the application. If approved, the 
grantee would be able to serve sites throughout the service area based 
on companies' needs for FTZ designation. The application indicates that 
the proposed service area is within and adjacent to the Eagle Pass 
Customs and Border Protection port of entry.
    The applicant is requesting authority to reorganize and expand its 
existing zone as follows: (1) remove existing Sites 1, 2 and 4 from the 
zone; (2) modify Site 3 by removing and adding acreage (new site 
total--562.71 acres); and, (3) modified Site 3 would become a 
``magnet'' site. The ASF allows for the possible exemption of one 
magnet site from the ``sunset'' time limits that generally apply to 
sites under the ASF, and the applicant proposes that modified Site 3 be 
so exempted.
    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 March 22, 2024. 
Rebuttal comments in response to material submitted during the 
foregoing period may be submitted during the subsequent 15-day period 
to April 8, 2024.
    A copy of the application will be available for public inspection 
in the ``Online FTZ Information Section'' section of the FTZ Board's 
website, which is accessible via www.trade.gov/ftz. For further 
information, contact Camille Evans at [email protected].

    Dated: January 16, 2024.
Elizabeth Whiteman,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2024-01078 Filed 1-19-24; 8:45 am]
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