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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
[Docket 29-94)]

 

Foreign-Trade Zone 122--Corpus Christi, TX; Application for 
Expansion

    An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones Board 
(the Board) by the Port of Corpus Christi Authority, grantee of FTZ 
122, requesting authority to expand its zone in the Corpus Christi, 
Texas, area, within the Corpus Christi Customs port of entry. The 
application was submitted pursuant to the provisions of the Foreign-
Trade Zones Act, as amended (19 U.S.C. 81a-81u), and the regulations of 
the Board (15 CFR Part 400). It was formally filed on August 25, 1994.
    FTZ 122 was approved on September 5, 1985 (Board Order 310, 50 FR 
38020; 9/19/85) and expanded on December 6, 1991 (Board Order 545, 56 
FR 65884; 12/19/91). The zone project includes 4 general-purpose sites 
and 11 subzones in the Corpus Christi port of entry area. The general-
purpose zone sites are:

Site 1 (613 acres)--ship channel portion of the Port of Corpus Christi 
Inner Harbor Terminal Complex
Site 2 (150 acres)--Corpus Christi Industrial Technology Park, owned by 
the City
Site 3 (14 acres)--Ray West Warehouse Company warehouse, located within 
two miles of the Port and downtown
Site 4 (176 acres)--American Petrofina Marketing, Inc. bulk storage 
facility, located at the mouth of the ship channel

    The applicant is now requesting authority to expand the existing 
site and add two new sites:

--Expand Site 1 to include the entire Port of Corpus Christi Inner 
Harbor terminal complex (7,275 acres, excluding the area on which 
Subzone 122H (Hitox) is located)
--Add two general-purpose sites:
    --(Proposed Site 5, 3 acres)--Brownsville Gulfside Warehouse, Inc., 
located at 6530 Leopard Street, Corpus Christi, owned by L.L. Harris 
Warehouse Properties, Inc.
    --(Proposed Site 6, 3 acres)--South Texas Freezer Company, Inc., 
located at 260 McBride Lane, Corpus Christi

    No specific manufacturing requests are being made at this time. 
Such requests would be made to the Board on a case-by case basis.
    In accordance with the Board's regulations, a member of the FTZ 
Staff has been designated examiner to investigate the application and 
report to the Board.
    Public comment on the application is invited from interested 
parties. Submissions (original and 3 copies) shall be addressed to the 
Board's Executive Secretary at the address below. The closing period 
for their receipt is November 22, 1994. Rebuttal comments in response 
to material submitted during the foregoing period may be submitted 
during the subsequent 15-day period (to December 6, 1994).
    A copy of the application and accompanying exhibits will be 
available for public inspection at each of the following locations:

Office of the Port Director, U.S. Customs Service, Government Plaza, 
400 Mann Street, Suite 305, Corpus Christi, Texas 78401
Office of the Executive Secretary, Foreign-Trade Zones Board, U.S. 
Department of Commerce, Room 3716, 14th & Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, 
Washington, DC 20230

    Dated: September 9, 1994.
John J. Da Ponte, Jr.,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 94-23646 Filed 9-22-94; 8:45 am]
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