[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 222 (Tuesday, November 18, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Page 61570]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-30163]


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DEPARTMENT OF STATE

Office of the Secretary
[Public Notice No. 2629]


New International Bridge, Brownsville, Texas: Issuance of 
Presidential Permit

SUMMARY: The Department of State is announcing the issuance to the 
Brownsville Navigation District of a Presidential Permit for two new 
international bridges between Brownsville, Texas, and Matamoros, 
Tamaulipas, Mexico. The Department determined that issuance of the 
Permit would serve the national interest and the Permit was signed on 
October 12, 1997 and issued on November 3, 1997 pursuant to the 
International Bridge Act (33 U.S.C. 555 et seq.) and Executive Order 
11423, 33 FR 11741 (1968), as amended by Executive Order 12847 of May 
17, 1993, 58 FR 96 (1993). No notifications of disagreement were 
received within the 15-day period prescribed in Section 1(f) of 
Executive Order 11423.

ADDRESSES: Copies of the Presidential Permit may be obtained from M. 
Elizabeth Swope, Coordinator, U.S.-Mexico Border Affairs, Office of 
Mexican Affairs, Room 4258, Department of State, Washington, D.C. 20520 
(Telephone 202-647-8529).

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice of the application by the Brownsville 
Navigation District for a Permit to build two new international bridges 
across the Rio Grande between Brownsville, Texas, and Matamoros, 
Tamaulipas, Mexico, was placed in the Federal Register on November 19, 
1991, 56 FR 223. The new bridges will be located parallel to each other 
about eight miles east of downtown Brownsville, Cameron County, Texas 
at River Mile 24. One bridge will be for commercial-cargo vehicular 
traffic and the other will be for commercial-cargo rail traffic. The 
bridges are intended to remove commercial tariff bound for the Port of 
Brownsville from downtown Brownsville. Eighteen Federal and state 
agencies reviewed the draft environmental assessment. They were: the 
Immigration and Naturalization Service, the United States Customs 
Service, the Food and Drug Administration, the Animal and Plant Health 
Inspection Service (of the Department of Agriculture), the General 
Service Administration, the International Boundary and Water 
Commission--United States Section, the Department of Defense, the 
Department of Transportation (Federal Highway Administration and the 
United States Coast Guard), the Federal Emergency Management Agency, 
the Department of the Interior (United States Fish and Wildlife 
Service), the Department of Commerce, the Environmental Protection 
Agency, the Interstate Commerce Commission (now part of the Department 
of Transportation), the Department of State, the Texas Parks and 
Wildlife Department, the Texas Department of Transportation, the Texas 
Historical Commission, and the Texas Natural Resource Conservation 
Commission (formerly the Texas Water Commission).

    Dated: November 4, 1997.
M. Elizabeth Swope,
Coordinator, U.S.-Mexico Border Affairs.
[FR Doc. 97-30163 Filed 11-17-97; 8:45 am]
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