[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 4 (Thursday, January 6, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Pages 771-772]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-61]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Order No. 1729]


Reorganization/Expansion of Foreign-Trade Zone 14 Under 
Alternative Site Framework; Little Rock, AR

    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 1170-1173, 01/12/09; correction 74 FR 3987, 01/22/
09; 75 FR 71069-71070, 11/22/10) as an option for the establishment or 
reorganization of general-purpose zones;
    Whereas, the Arkansas Economic Development Commission, grantee of 
Foreign-Trade Zone 14, submitted an application to the Board (FTZ 
Docket 34-2010, filed 5/11/2010) for authority to reorganize under the 
ASF with a service area that includes Clark, Conway, Dallas, Faulkner, 
Garland, Grant, Hot Spring, Jefferson, Lonoke, Montgomery, Nevada, 
Pike, Pulaski, Pope, Saline, Yell and White Counties, Arkansas, within 
and adjacent to the Little Rock Customs and Border

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Protection port of entry, FTZ 14's existing Sites 1-3 would be 
categorized as magnet sites, Site 1 would be expanded to include 
additional acreage and the grantee proposes an initial usage-driven 
site (Site 4);
    Whereas, notice inviting public comment was given in the Federal 
Register (75 FR 27982-27983, 5/19/10) 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 and expand FTZ 14 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 2 and 3 if not activated by 
December 31, 2015, and to a three-year ASF sunset provision for usage-
driven sites that would terminate authority for Site 4 if no foreign-
status merchandise is admitted for a bona fide customs purpose by 
December 31, 2013.

    Signed at Washington, DC this 20th day of December, 2010.
Ronald K. Lorentzen,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Import Administration, Alternate 
Chairman, Foreign-Trade Zones Board.

Attest:
Andrew McGilvray,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2011-61 Filed 1-5-11; 8:45 am]
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