Reorganizations under Alternative Site Framework:

Federal Register Volume 76, Number 197 (Wednesday, October 12, 2011)

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FR Doc No: 2011-26373

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

Order No. 1783

Reorganization of Foreign-Trade Zone 59 Under Alternative Site

Framework; Lincoln, NE

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, 01/12/2009; correction 74 FR 3987, 01/ 22/2009; 75 FR 71069-71070, 11/22/2010) as an option for the establishment or reorganization of general-purpose zones;

Whereas, the Lincoln Foreign-Trade Zone, Inc., grantee of FTZ 59, submitted an application to the Board (FTZ Docket 33-2011, filed 5/12/ 2011) for authority to reorganize under the ASF with a service area that includes Lancaster, Otoe and Seward Counties, Nebraska, within and adjacent to the Omaha Customs and Border Protection port of entry, and

FTZ 59's existing Sites 1 and 2 would be categorized as magnet sites;

Whereas, notice inviting public comment was given in the Federal

Register (76 FR 28952-28953, 5/19/2011) 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 FTZ 59 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, and to a five-year ASF sunset provision for magnet sites that would terminate authority for Site 1 if not activated by September 30, 2016.

Signed at Washington, DC, this 30th day of September 2011.

Ronald K. Lorentzen,

Deputy Assistant Secretary for Import Administration, Alternate

Chairman, Foreign-Trade Zones Board.

ATTEST: ------------------------------------------------------------

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Andrew McGilvray,

Executive Secretary.

FR Doc. 2011-26373 Filed 10-11-11; 8:45 am

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