80 FR 30434 - Notification of Proposed Production Activity; Hitachi Automotive Systems Americas, Inc.; Subzone 29F (Automotive Battery Management Systems); Harrodsburg, Kentucky

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Foreign-Trade Zones Board

Federal Register Volume 80, Issue 102 (May 28, 2015)

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FR Document		2015-12927

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[B-34-2015]


Notification of Proposed Production Activity; Hitachi Automotive 
Systems Americas, Inc.; Subzone 29F (Automotive Battery Management 
Systems); Harrodsburg, Kentucky

    The Louisville and Jefferson County Riverport Authority, grantee of 
FTZ 29, submitted a notification of proposed production activity to the 
FTZ Board on behalf of Hitachi Automotive Systems Americas, Inc. 
(HIAMS-HK), operator of Subzone 29F, at its facilities located in 
Harrodsburg, Kentucky. The notification conforming to the requirements 
of the regulations of the FTZ Board (15 CFR 400.22) was received on May 
5, 2015.
    HIAMS-HK already has authority to produce various automotive 
components, including electric-hybrid drive systems, mass air sensors, 
throttle bodies and chambers, starter motors, motor/generator units, 
alternators, distributors, static converters, inverter modules, rotors/
stators, batteries, ignition coils, sensors and modules, fuel 
injectors, emissions control equipment, valves, pumps, and electronic 
control units for engines and transmissions within Subzone 29F. The 
current request would add a new finished product (automotive battery 
management systems) and foreign components to the scope of authority. 
Pursuant to 15 CFR 400.14(b), FTZ activity would be limited to the 
specific foreign-status components and specific finished products 
described in the submitted notification (as described below) and 
subsequently authorized by the FTZ Board.
    Production under FTZ procedures could exempt HIAMS-HK from customs 
duty payments on the foreign status components used in export 
production. On its domestic sales, HIAMS-HK would be able to choose the 
duty rate during customs entry procedures that applies to automotive 
battery management systems (1.7%) for the foreign status inputs noted 
below and in the existing scope of authority. Customs duties also could 
possibly be deferred or reduced on foreign status production equipment.

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    The components sourced from abroad are: Battery management covers 
and bases (duty rate--1.7%).
    Public comment is invited from interested parties. Submissions 
shall be addressed to the FTZ Board's Executive Secretary at the 
address below. The closing period for their receipt is July 7, 2015.
    A copy of the notification will be available for public inspection 
at the Office of the Executive Secretary, Foreign-Trade Zones Board, 
Room 21013, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue NW., 
Washington, DC 20230-0002, and in the ``Reading Room'' section of the 
FTZ Board's Web site, which is accessible via www.trade.gov/ftz.
    For further information, contact Pierre Duy at [email protected] 
or (202) 482-1378.

    Dated: May 20, 2015.
Andrew McGilvray,
Executive Secretary.
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EA and, based on the final EA, a discussion of issues in the draft EA, Done in Washington, DC, this 21st day of
National Environmental Policy Act APHIS has determined that cotton May 2015.
(NEPA) decision document (either a designated as DAS–8191;–7 is unlikely Kevin Shea,
FONSI or a notice of intent to prepare to pose a plant pest risk. We have Administrator, Animal and Plant Health
an environmental impact statement). therefore reached a preliminary decision Inspection Service.
As part of our decision making to make a determination of nonregulated [FR Doc. 2015–12817 Filed 5–27–15; 8:45 am]
process regarding a GE organism’s status of cotton designated as DAS– BILLING CODE 3410–34–P
regulatory status, APHIS prepares a 8191;–7, whereby cotton designated as
PPRA to assess the plant pest risk of the
DAS–8191;–7 would no longer be
article. APHIS also prepares the DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
subject to our regulations governing the
appropriate environmental
documentation—either an EA or an introduction of certain GE organisms.
Foreign-Trade Zones Board
environmental impact statement—in We are making available for a 30-day
[B–34–2015]
accordance with NEPA, to provide the review period APHIS’ preliminary
Agency and the public with a review regulatory determination of cotton Notification of Proposed Production
and analysis of any potential designated as DAS–8191;–7, along with Activity; Hitachi Automotive Systems
environmental impacts that may result our preliminary PPRA, draft EA, and Americas, Inc.; Subzone 29F
if the petition request is approved. preliminary FONSI for the preliminary (Automotive Battery Management
APHIS has prepared a preliminary determination of nonregulated status. Systems); Harrodsburg, Kentucky
PPRA and has concluded that cotton The draft EA, preliminary FONSI,
designated as DAS–8191;–7, which has preliminary PPRA, and our preliminary The Louisville and Jefferson County
been genetically engineered for determination for cotton designated as Riverport Authority, grantee of FTZ 29,
resistance to the herbicides 2,4–D and submitted a notification of proposed
DAS–8191;–7, as well as the DAS
glufosinate, is unlikely to pose a plant production activity to the FTZ Board on
petition and the comments received on
pest risk. In section 403 of the Plant behalf of Hitachi Automotive Systems
Protection Act, ‘‘plant pest’’ is defined the petition, are available as indicated
Americas, Inc. (HIAMS–HK), operator of
as any living stage of any of the under ADDRESSES and FOR FURTHER
Subzone 29F, at its facilities located in
following that can directly or indirectly INFORMATION CONTACT above. Copies of
Harrodsburg, Kentucky. The notification
injure, cause damage to, or cause these documents may also be obtained conforming to the requirements of the
disease in any plant or plant product: A from the person listed under FOR regulations of the FTZ Board (15 CFR
protozoan, a nonhuman animal, a FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT. 400.22) was received on May 5, 2015.
parasitic plant, a bacterium, a fungus, a After the 30-day review period closes, HIAMS–HK already has authority to
virus or viroid, an infectious agent or APHIS will review and evaluate any produce various automotive
other pathogen, or any article similar to information received during the 30-day components, including electric-hybrid
or allied with any of the foregoing. review period. If, after evaluating the drive systems, mass air sensors, throttle
APHIS has also prepared a draft EA in information received, APHIS determines bodies and chambers, starter motors,
which we present two alternatives based motor/generator units, alternators,
that we have not received substantive
on our analysis of data submitted by distributors, static converters, inverter
DAS, a review of other scientific data, new information that would warrant
modules, rotors/stators, batteries,
field tests conducted under APHIS APHIS altering our preliminary
ignition coils, sensors and modules, fuel
oversight, and comments received on regulatory determination or FONSI, injectors, emissions control equipment,
the petition. APHIS is considering the substantially changing the proposed valves, pumps, and electronic control
following alternatives: (1) Take no action identified in the draft EA, or units for engines and transmissions
action, i.e., APHIS would not change the substantially changing the analysis of within Subzone 29F. The current
regulatory status of cotton designated as impacts in the draft EA, APHIS will request would add a new finished
DAS–8191;–7, or (2) make a notify the public through an product (automotive battery
determination of nonregulated status of announcement on our Web site of our management systems) and foreign
cotton designated as DAS–8191;–7. final regulatory determination. If, components to the scope of authority.
The EA was prepared in accordance however, APHIS determines that we Pursuant to 15 CFR 400.14(b), FTZ
with (1) NEPA, as amended (42 U.S.C. have received substantive new activity would be limited to the specific
4321 et seq.), (2) regulations of the information that would warrant APHIS foreign-status components and specific
Council on Environmental Quality for altering our preliminary regulatory finished products described in the
implementing the procedural provisions determination or FONSI, substantially submitted notification (as described
of NEPA (40 CFR parts 1500–1508), (3) changing the proposed action identified below) and subsequently authorized by
USDA regulations implementing NEPA in the draft EA, or substantially the FTZ Board.
(7 CFR part 1b), and (4) APHIS’ NEPA changing the analysis of impacts in the Production under FTZ procedures
Implementing Procedures (7 CFR part draft EA, then APHIS will notify the could exempt HIAMS–HK from customs
372). Based on our draft EA and other public of our intent to conduct duty payments on the foreign status
pertinent scientific data, APHIS has additional analysis and to prepare an components used in export production.
prepared a preliminary FONSI with On its domestic sales, HIAMS–HK
amended EA, a new FONSI, and/or a
regard to the preferred alternative would be able to choose the duty rate
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revised PPRA, which would be made
identified in the EA. during customs entry procedures that
Based on APHIS’ analysis of field and available for public review through the applies to automotive battery
laboratory data submitted by DAS, publication of a notice of availability in management systems (1.7%) for the
references provided in the petition, the Federal Register. APHIS will also foreign status inputs noted below and in
peer-reviewed publications, information notify the petitioner. the existing scope of authority. Customs
analyzed in the draft EA, the Authority: 7 U.S.C. 7701–7772 and 7781– duties also could possibly be deferred or
preliminary PPRA, comments provided 7786; 31 U.S.C. 9701; 7 CFR 2.22, 2.80, and reduced on foreign status production
by the public on the petition, and 371.3. equipment.

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80 FR 30434 - Notification of Proposed Production Activity; Hitachi Automotive Systems Americas, Inc.; Subzone 29F (Automotive Battery Management Systems); Harrodsburg, Kentucky

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