[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 98 (Friday, May 21, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Page 28568]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-12289]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Order No. 1678]


Reorganization of Foreign-Trade Zone 2, under Alternative Site 
Framework, New Orleans, Louisiana, 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) in 
December 2008 (74 FR 1170, 01/12/09; correction 74 FR 3987, 01/22/09) 
as an option for the establishment or reorganization of general-purpose 
zones;
    Whereas, the Board of Commissioners of the Port of New Orleans, 
grantee of Foreign-Trade Zone 2, submitted an application to the Board 
(FTZ Docket 58-2009, filed 12/14/2009) for authority to reorganize 
under the ASF with a service area of Orleans, Jefferson and St. Bernard 
Parishes, Louisiana, adjacent to the New Orleans Customs and Border 
Protection port of entry, and FTZ 2's existing Sites 2, 4, 6 and 7 
would be categorized as magnet sites, existing Sites 1 and 8 through 61 
would be categorized as usage-driven sites, and existing Site 3 would 
be deleted;
    Whereas, notice inviting public comment was given in the Federal 
Register (74 FR 68041-68042, 12/22/2009) 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 
Board's regulations are satisfied, and that the proposal is in the 
public interest;
    Now, therefore, the Board hereby orders:
    The application to reorganize FTZ 2 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 Sites 4, 6 and 7 if not activated by May 31, 2015, and to 
a three-year ASF sunset provision for usage-driven sites that would 
terminate authority for Sites 1 and 8 through 61 if no foreign-status 
merchandise is admitted for a bona fide customs purpose by May 31, 
2013.
    Signed at Washington, DC, this 13th day of May 2010.

Ronald K. Lorentzen,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Import Administration, Alternate 
Chairman, Foreign-Trade Zones Board.
    Attest:
Andrew McGilvray,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2010-12289 Filed 5-20-10; 8:45 am]
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