[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 216 (Wednesday, November 6, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Page 57383]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-28447]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board
[Docket 79-96]


Foreign-Trade Zone 81; Portsmouth, New Hampshire; Application for 
Expansion (Pease International Tradeport)

    An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones (FTZ) 
Board (the Board) by the New Hampshire State Port Authority, grantee of 
FTZ 81, requesting authority to expand FTZ 81 to include an additional 
site in Portsmouth, within the Portsmouth 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 October 23, 1996.
    FTZ 81 was approved on January 20, 1983 (Board Order 207, 48 FR 
4308, 1/31/83) and expanded on April 12, 1985 (Board Order 302, 50 FR 
15948, 4/23/85). The general-purpose zone currently consists of four 
sites: Site 1 (10 acres)--within the Port Authority's deep water port 
facility at 555 Market Street on Portsmouth Harbor; Site 2 (175 
acres)--Portsmouth Industrial Park on Lafayette Road, Portsmouth; Site 
3 (54 acres)--Crosby Industrial Park on Crosby Road, Dover; and, Site 4 
(1,469 acres)--industrial/commercial complex known as the Old Grenier 
Air Force Base, Manchester.
    The applicant is now requesting authority to further expand the 
general-purpose zone to include an additional site (proposed Site 5--
2,095 acres)--at the Pease International Tradeport, formerly the Pease 
Air Force Base, 601 Spaulding Turnpike, Portsmouth. The development 
agency for the project is the Pease Development Authority. Firms will 
be able to utilize zone services in an industrial park environment 
which would include activities such as warehousing/distribution, 
testing and processing of industrial machinery, research in high 
technology fields, and airport related functions. 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 January 6, 1997. Rebuttal comments in response to 
material submitted during the foregoing period may be submitted during 
the subsequent 15-day period (to January 21, 1997).
    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, Export Assistance Center, 601 Spaulding 
Turnpike, Suite 29, Portsmouth, NH 03801
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: October 28, 1996.
John J. Da Ponte, Jr.,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 96-28447 Filed 11-5-96; 8:45 am]
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