Notice2023-11258
Reorganization of Foreign-Trade Zone 28 Under Alternative Site Framework; New Bedford, Massachusetts
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May 26, 2023
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Commerce DepartmentForeign-Trade Zones Board
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[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 102 (Friday, May 26, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Page 34128]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2023-11258]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Foreign-Trade Zones Board
[Order No. 2143]
Reorganization of Foreign-Trade Zone 28 Under Alternative Site
Framework; New Bedford, Massachusetts
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 Foreign-Trade Zones (FTZ) Act provides for ``. . . the
establishment . . . of foreign-trade zones in ports of entry of the
United States, to expedite and encourage foreign commerce, and for
other purposes,'' and authorizes the Board to grant to qualified
corporations the privilege of establishing foreign-trade zones in or
adjacent to U.S. Customs and Border Protection ports of entry;
Whereas, the Board adopted the alternative site framework (ASF) (15
CFR 400.2(c)) as an option for the establishment or reorganization of
zones;
Whereas, the City of New Bedford, grantee of Foreign-Trade Zone 28,
submitted an application to the Board (FTZ Docket B-49-2022, docketed
November 7, 2022) for authority to reorganize under the ASF with a
service area of Bristol, Barnstable, Dukes, Nantucket, Norfolk and
Plymouth Counties, Massachusetts, in and adjacent to the New Bedford
Customs and Border Protection port of entry, and FTZ 28's existing
Sites 1 and 2 would be categorized as magnet sites;
Whereas, notice inviting public comment was given in the Federal
Register (87 FR 68122-68123, November 14, 2022) 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
the Board's regulations would be satisfied if approval of the service
area is limited to Bristol and Plymouth Counties, Massachusetts;
Now, therefore, the Board hereby orders:
The application to reorganize FTZ 28 under the ASF is approved in
part, with a service area limited to Bristol and Plymouth Counties,
Massachusetts, 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, and to an ASF sunset provision for magnet sites
that would terminate authority for Sites 1 and 2 if not activated
within five years from the month of approval.
Dated: May 22, 2023.
Lisa W. Wang,
Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and Compliance, Alternate Chairman,
Foreign-Trade Zones Board.
[FR Doc. 2023-11258 Filed 5-25-23; 8:45 am]
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