[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 48 (Monday, March 12, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Page 14493]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-5914]


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 DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Order No. 1817]


Reorganization/Expansion of Foreign-Trade Zone 77 Under 
Alternative Site Framework Memphis, Tennessee Area

    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 Board adopted the alternative site framework (ASF) (74 
FR 1170, 01/12/2009; correction 74 FR 3987, 01/22/2009; 75 FR 71069-
71070, 11/22/2010) as an option for the establishment or reorganization 
of general-purpose zones;
    Whereas, the City of Memphis, grantee of Foreign-Trade Zone 77, 
submitted an application to the Board (FTZ Docket 51-2011, filed 08/03/
11) for authority to reorganize and expand under the ASF with a service 
area of Shelby County, Tennessee, within the Memphis U.S. Customs and 
Border Protection port of entry, and FTZ 77's existing Site 4 and 
proposed Site 10 would be categorized as magnet sites, while Sites 1, 
2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11 and 12 would be categorized as usage-driven 
sites;
    Whereas, notice inviting public comment was given in the Federal 
Register (76 FR 48121, 08/08/2011) 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, and that the proposal is in the 
public interest;
    Now, therefore, the Board hereby orders:
    The application to reorganize and expand FTZ 77 under the 
alternative site framework is approved, subject to the FTZ Act and the 
Board's regulations, including Section 400.28, to the Board's standard 
2,000-acre activation limit for the overall general-purpose zone 
project, to a five-year ASF sunset provision for magnet sites that 
would terminate authority for Site 4 if not activated by February 28, 
2017, and to a three-year ASF sunset provision for usage-driven sites 
that would terminate authority for Sites 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11 and 
12 if no foreign-status merchandise is admitted for a bona fide customs 
purpose by February 28, 2015.

    Signed at Washington, DC, this 29th day of February 2012.
Ronald K. Lorentzen,
Acting Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Import Administration, 
Alternate Chairman, Foreign-Trade Zones Board.
[FR Doc. 2012-5914 Filed 3-9-12; 8:45 am]
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