[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 113 (Tuesday, June 11, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Page 29531]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-14744]



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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
[Docket 47-96]


Foreign-Trade Zone 168--Dallas/Fort Worth, TX, Area; Application 
for Expansion

    An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones Board 
(the Board) by the Dallas/Fort Worth Maquila Trade Development 
Corporation, grantee of FTZ 168, requesting authority to expand its 
zone to include a site in Carrollton, Texas, within the Dallas/Fort 
Worth 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 May 30, 1996.
    FTZ 168 was approved on November 1, 1990 (Board Order 491, 55 FR 
46974, 11/8/90) and reorganized in 1992 and 1994. The zone currently 
consists of three sites in the Fort Worth, Texas, area:
    Site 1 (24 acres)--industrial area at Alta Mesa and Will Rogers 
Boulevards, Fort Worth;
    Site 2 (263 acres)--Centreport Industrial Development, south of DFW 
International Airport, Fort Worth;
    Site 3 (195 acres)--Fossil Creek Business Park, I-35W and I-820, 
Fort Worth.
    Applications are currently pending for a site (proposed Site 4--91 
acres) located at the Regency Business Park along Post & Paddock Road, 
Grand Prairie, Texas (Doc. 77-95, 60 FR 61528, 11/30/95), and a site 
(proposed Site 5--630 acres) within the 1,200-acre Mercantile Center, 
located at I-35 and Meacham Boulevard, Fort Worth, Texas (Doc. 27-96, 
61 FR 17875, 4/23/96).
    The applicant is now requesting authority to expand the zone to 
include a site at the Frankford Trade Center (168 acres) located 
adjacent to I-35E and Frankford Road, Carrollton, Texas. The site is 
owned by Hunt Realty Investments, Inc., and zone services will be 
provided by the FTZ Operating Company of Texas.
    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 August 12, 1996. Rebuttal comments in response to 
material submitted during the foregoing period may be submitted during 
the subsequent 15-day period (to August 26, 1996).
    A copy of the application and accompanying exhibits will be 
available for public inspection at each of the following locations:

U.S. Department of Commerce District Office 2050 N. Stemmons Fwy., 
Suite 170 Dallas, Texas 75258
Office of the Executive Secretary Foreign-Trade Zones Board U.S. 
Department of Commerce, Room 3716 14th & Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., 
Washington, DC 20230

    Dated: May 30, 1996.
John J. Da Ponte, Jr.,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 96-14744 Filed 6-10-96; 8:45 am]
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