[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 28 (Wednesday, February 11, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 6890-6891]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-3483]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board
[Docket 6-98]


Foreign-Trade Zone 37, Orange County, New York Area Application 
for Expansion

    An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones (FTZ) 
Board (the Board) by the County of Orange, New York, grantee of FTZ 37, 
requesting authority to expand its zone in the Orange County, New York 
area, adjacent to the New York Seaport Area Customs port of entry. The 
application was submitted pursuant to the provisions of the FTZ Act, as 
amended (19 U.S.C. 81a-81u), and the regulations of the Board (15 CFR 
Part 400). It was formally filed on February 2, 1998.
    FTZ 37 was approved on May 4, 1978 (Board Order 130, 43 F.R. 20526, 
5/12/78). The general-purpose zone currently consists of two sites: 
Site 1 (117,000 sq. ft.)--within the Regal Distribution Center, 61 
Regal Way, Newburgh, adjacent to Stewart Airport; and, Site 2 (5 
acres)--Newburgh Foreign-Trade Zone Industrial Incubator facility, 
adjacent to Port Newburgh, 302 North Water Street.
    The applicant, in a major revision to its zone plan, now requests 
authority to expand the general-purpose zone to include 7 new sites 
(11,400 acres) in Orange, Dutchess and Rockland Counties (Proposed 
Sites 3-9): Site 3 (9,933 acres)--Stewart International Airport/
Northeast Business Center, near the intersection of I-87 and I-84, New 
Windsor/Newburgh (Orange County); Site 4 (520 acres)-IBM/Hudson Valley 
Research Park, 1580 Route 52, Hopewell Junction (Dutchess County); Site 
5 (63 acres)-AT&T Rockland Export Center, 22 Hemion Road, Suffern 
(Rockland County); Site 6 (262 acres)-Newburgh/New Windsor site, Port 
of Newburgh, off Exit 10, Interstate 84 at the Newburgh/Beacon Bridge, 
Newburgh (Orange County); Site 7 (309 acres)-Middletown/Wallkill site, 
adjacent to Interstate 84 and Exit 121 of NY Rt. 17 (Quickway), 
Middletown/Wallkill (Orange County); Site 8 (140 acres)-Port Jervis 
site, adjacent to Exit 1 off Interstate 84, juncture of the borders of 
New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, Port Jervis (Orange County); 
and, Site 9 (173 acres)-Goshen/Westgate FTZ Industrial Park, off Exit 
124 of NY Rt. 17 (the Quickway), Village of Goshen (Orange County). 
Proposed Site 3 includes existing and proposed airport cargo handling 
facilities and the airport fuel system. Proposed Site 4 is within a 
designated State of New York Enterprise

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Zone, and most of Proposed Site 6 is within a recently created Federal 
Empowerment Zone, as well as a proposed State Enterprise Zone. The 
proposed expansion is designed to serve the entire 7-county Mid-Hudson 
Valley Region. 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 April 13, 1998. Rebuttal comments in response to 
material submitted during the foregoing period may be submitted during 
the subsequent 15-day period (to April 27, 1998).
    A copy of the application and accompanying exhibits will be 
available for public inspection at each of the following locations:

Office of the County Executive, Orange County Government Center, 
Legislative Clerk's Office, Room 302, Goshen, New York 10924
Office of the Executive Secretary, Foreign-Trade Zones Board, Room 
3716, U.S. Department of Commerce 14th & Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, 
Washington, DC 20230.

    Dated: February 5, 1998.
Dennis Puccinelli,
Acting Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 98-3483 Filed 2-10-98; 8:45 am]
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