81 FR 67293 - Reorganization and Expansion of Foreign-Trade Zone 214 Under Alternative Site Framework; Lenoir County, North Carolina

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Foreign-Trade Zones Board

Federal Register Volume 81, Issue 190 (September 30, 2016)

[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 190 (Friday, September 30, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Page 67293]
From the Federal Register Online  [www.thefederalregister.org]
[FR Doc No: 2016-23700]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Order No. 2013]


Reorganization and Expansion of Foreign-Trade Zone 214 Under 
Alternative Site Framework; Lenoir County, North Carolina

    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) (15 
CFR Sec. 400.2(c)) as an option for the establishment or reorganization 
of zones;
    Whereas, the North Carolina Department of Transportation, grantee 
of Foreign-Trade Zone 214, submitted an application to the Board (FTZ 
Docket B-20-2016, docketed April 13, 2016) for authority to reorganize 
and expand under the ASF with a service area of the Counties of Pender, 
New Hanover, Brunswick, Duplin, Columbus, Bladen, Robeson, Beaufort, 
Pitt, Hyde, Onslow, Jones, Craven, Pamlico, Lenoir, Carteret, Wilson, 
Edgecombe, Nash, Wayne, Greene and Cumberland, within and adjacent to 
the Wilmington, Morehead City and Raleigh-Durham Customs and Border 
Protection ports of entry. FTZ 214's existing Sites 1, 5, 6 (as 
modified) and 7 would be categorized as magnet sites and Sites 2, 3 and 
4 would be categorized as usage-driven sites, and the grantee proposes 
three additional magnet sites (Sites 8, 9 and 10);
    Whereas, notice inviting public comment was given in the Federal 
Register (81 FR 23456-23457, April 21, 2016) 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 
the Board's regulations are satisfied provided that inclusion of 
Robeson County in the service area is limited to the portion of the 
county east of Interstate 95 (I-95);
    Now, therefore, the Board hereby orders:
    The application to reorganize and expand FTZ 214 under the ASF is 
approved, with the service area described above (i.e., inclusion of 
Robeson County in the service area is limited to the portion of the 
county east of I-95), subject to the FTZ Act and the Board's 
regulations, including Section 400.13, to the Board's standard 2,000-
acre activation limit for the zone, to ASF sunset provisions for magnet 
sites that would terminate authority for Sites 1, 7, 8, 9 and 10 if not 
activated within five years from the month of approval and for Sites 5 
and 6 if not activated within the initial ten years from the month of 
approval, and to an ASF sunset provision for usage-driven sites that 
would terminate authority for Sites 2, 3 and 4 if no foreign-status 
merchandise is admitted for a bona fide customs purpose within three 
years from the month of approval.

    Dated: September 15, 2016.
Paul Piquado,
Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Enforcement and Compliance, 
Alternate Chairman, Foreign-Trade Zones Board.
[FR Doc. 2016-23700 Filed 9-29-16; 8:45 am]
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