[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 53 (Friday, March 19, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Pages 13261-13262]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-6094]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Order No. 1668]


Reorganization of Foreign-Trade Zone 260 under Alternative Site 
Framework, Lubbock, Texas

    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 City of Lubbock, Texas, grantee of Foreign-Trade Zone 
260, submitted an application to the Board (FTZ Docket 28-2009, filed 
7/15/2009) for authority to reorganize under the ASF with a service 
area of Garza, Hale, Hockley, Lubbock and Terry Counties, Texas, in and 
adjacent to the Lubbock Customs and Border Protection port of entry, 
FTZ 260's existing Sites 1 and 2 would be categorized as magnet sites,

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and the grantee proposes two initial usage-driven sites (Sites 4 and 
5);
    Whereas, notice inviting public comment was given in the Federal 
Register (74 FR 36166, 7/22/09) and the application has been processed 
pursuant to the FTZ Act and the Board's regulations; and,
    Whereas, the Board adopts the findings and recommendation 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 260 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 2 if not activated by February 28, 2015, and to a 
three-year ASF sunset provision for usage-driven sites that would 
terminate authority for Sites 4 and 5 if no foreign-status merchandise 
is admitted for a bona fide customs purpose by February 28, 2013.
    Signed at Washington, DC, this 23rd day of February 2010.

Ronald K. Lorentzen,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Import Administration, Alternate 
Chairman, Foreign-Trade Zones Board.
    Attest:
Andrew McGilvray,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2010-6094 Filed 3-18-10; 8:45 am]
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