[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 85 (Wednesday, May 1, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 19258-19259]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-10826]



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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Foreign-Trade Zones Board
[Docket 33-96]


Foreign-Trade Zone 27--Boston, Massachusetts; Application for 
Expansion

    An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones Board 
(the Board) by the Massachusetts Port Authority (Massport), grantee of 
Foreign-Trade Zone 27, requesting authority to expand its zone in 
Boston, Massachusetts, within the Boston 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 April 23, 1996.
    FTZ 27 was approved on April 5, 1977 (Board Order 116, 42 FR 18901, 
4/11/77) and expanded on March 23, 1979 (Board Order 144, 44 FR 19502, 
4/3/79) and September 13, 1983 (Board Order 224, 48 FR 41802, 9/19/83). 
The zone currently consists of 4 sites (84.1 acres): Site 1 (5.1 
acres)--within the 163-acre Boston Marine Industrial Park; Site 2 (11 
acres)--Commonwealth Pier #5 on Northern Avenue; Site 3 (48 acres)--
Commonwealth Storage Yards, across from Site 2; and, Site 4 (20 
acres)--within the Mass Tech Center (90 acres) at Logan International 
Airport.
    The applicant is now requesting authority to expand the general-
purpose zone to include the jet fuel storage and distribution system 
(Proposed Site 5, 39 acres) at and adjacent to Logan International 
Airport. The Airport fuel system consists of facilities owned by Mobil 
Corporation, Mobil Pipe Line Company and Massport, including: the Mobil 
Oil Corporation petroleum terminal (92 tanks, 29 acres) and the Mobil 
Pipe Line Company pipeline; the Airport fuel storage and distribution 
facilities (7 acres) including the North Fuel Farm, the International 
Terminal Tank System, fuel transmission pipelines and hydrants; and, 
the proposed Airport fuel facilities (3 acres), transmission pipelines 
and hydrants that are scheduled to become operational in 1998. The 
Mobil facilities will receive, store and distribute products of all 
qualified suppliers, including domestic oil refineries operating under 
FTZ procedures.
    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 July 1, 1996. Rebuttal comments in response to 
material submitted during the foregoing period may be submitted during 
the subsequent 15-day period (to July 15, 1996).
    A copy of the application and accompanying exhibits will be 
available for public inspection at each of the following locations:

U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Export Assistance Center, World Trade Center, 
Suite 307, 164 Northern Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts 02210
Office of the Executive Secretary, Foreign-Trade Zones Board, Room 
3716, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th and Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, 
Washington, DC 20230

    Dated: April 23, 1996.
John J. Da Ponte, Jr.,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 96-10826 Filed 4-30-96; 8:45 am]
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