[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 5 (Friday, January 7, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Pages 1132-1133]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-138]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Foreign-Trade Zones Board
[Docket 1-2011]
Foreign-Trade Zone 153--San Diego, CA; Application for
Reorganization Under Alternative Site Framework
An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones (FTZ)
Board (the Board) by the City of San Diego, grantee of FTZ 153,
requesting authority to reorganize and expand the zone under the
alternative site framework (ASF) adopted by the Board (74 FR 1170, 1/
12/09 (correction 74 FR 3987, 1/22/09); 75 FR 71069-71070, 11/22/10).
The ASF is an option for grantees for the establishment or
reorganization of general-purpose zones and can permit significantly
greater flexibility in the designation of new ``usage-driven'' FTZ
sites for operators/users located within a grantee's ``service area''
in the context of the Board's standard 2,000-acre activation limit for
a general-purpose zone project. 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 filed on
January 3, 2011.
FTZ 153 was approved by the Board on October 14, 1988 (Board Order
394, 53 FR 41616, 10/24/88) and expanded on December 16, 1991 (Board
Order 548, 56 FR 2160, 01/22/91 and on August 23, 2002 (Board Order
1245, 67 FR 56983, 09/06/02).
The current zone project includes the following sites: Site 1 (316
acres)--Brown Field, Otay Mesa Road and Heritage Road, San Diego; Site
2 (73 acres)--San Diego Business Park, Airway Road and State Road 125,
San Diego; Site 3 (60 acres)--Gateway Park, Harvest Road and Customs
House Plaza Road, San Diego; Site 4 (71 acres)--Britannia Commerce
Center, Siempre Viva Road and Britannia Boulevard; Site 5 (312 acres)--
De La Fuente Business Park, Airway Road and Media Road, San Diego; Site
6 (160 acres)--Brown Field Business Park, Otay Mesa Road and Britannia
Boulevard; Site 7 (389 acres)--Otay Mesa International Center, Harvest
Road and Airway Road, San Diego; Site 8 (86 acres)--Ocean View Hills
Corporate Center, Otay Mesa Road and Innovative Drive, San Diego; Site
9 (119 acres)--Siempre Viva Business Park, La Media Road and Siempre
Viva Road, San Diego; Site 10 (65 acres)--Brown Field Technology Park,
southeast of the intersection of Otay Mesa Road and Britannia
Boulevard; and, Site 14 (0.51 acres)--Hoon Import & Export Inc., 2155
Britannia Boulevard, San Diego (expires 09/30/11).
The grantee's proposed service area under the ASF would be San
Diego County and a portion of Riverside County, California, 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 proposed service area is within and adjacent to
the San Diego U.S. Customs and Border Protection port of entry.
The applicant is requesting authority to reorganize its existing
zone project to include existing Sites 1 thru 10 as ``magnet'' sites
and existing Site 14 as a ``usage-driven 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 Site 1 be so exempted. The applicant is also requesting approval
of the following initial ``usage-driven'' sites: Proposed Site 11
(54.18 acres)--Abbott Cardiovascular Systems Inc., 26531 Ynez Road,
Temecula (Riverside County); Proposed Site 12 (8.3 acres)--Abbot
Cardiovascular Systems Inc., 42301 Zevo Drive, Temecula (Riverside
County); and, Proposed Site 13 (4.37 acres)--30590 Cochise Circle,
Temecula (Riverside County). Additionally, the applicant is requesting
to reduce the acreage of existing Site 6 and existing Site 10. Because
the ASF only pertains to establishing or reorganizing a general-purpose
zone, the application would have no impact on FTZ 153's authorized
subzones.
In accordance with the Board's regulations, Christopher Kemp 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 Board.
Public comment is invited from interested parties. Submissions
(original and 3 copies) shall be addressed to the Board's Executive
Secretary at the address below. The closing period for their receipt is
March 8, 2011. Rebuttal comments in response to material submitted
during the foregoing period may be submitted during the subsequent 15-
day period to March 23, 2011.
A copy of the application will be available for public inspection
at the Office of the Executive Secretary, Foreign-Trade Zones Board,
Room 2111, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue, NW.,
Washington, DC 20230-0002, and in the ``Reading Room'' section of the
Board's Web site, which is accessible via http://www.trade.gov/ftz. For
further information, contact Christopher Kemp
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at [email protected] or (202) 482-0862.
Dated: January 3, 2011.
Andrew McGilvray,
Executive Secretary.
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