[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 28 (Wednesday, February 11, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Page 6891]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-3484]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board
[Docket 4-98]


Foreign-Trade Zone 68--El Paso, Texas Application for Expansion

    An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones Board 
(the Board) by the City of El Paso, Texas, grantee of FTZ 68, 
requesting authority to expand its zone in El Paso, Texas, within the 
El Paso Customs port of entry. The application was submitted pursuant 
to the provisions of the Foreign-Trade Zones Act (19 U.S.C. 81a-81u), 
and the regulations of the Board (15 CFR Part 400). It was formally 
filed on January 20, 1998.
    FTZ 68 was approved on April 14, 1981 (Board Order 175, 46 FR 
22918; 4/22/81). On September 30, 1982, the grant of authority was 
reissued to the City of El Paso, Texas (Board Order 193, 47 FR 45065; 
10/13/82). The zone was expanded in 1984 (Board Order 255, 49 FR 22842; 
6/1/84) and in 1991 (Board Order 504, 56 FR 1166; 1/11/91). The zone 
currently consists of five sites (2,000 acres) in the El Paso, Texas, 
area:

    Site 1 (590 acres)--El Paso Airport's Butterfield Trail 
Industrial Park;
    Site 2 (470 acres)--Lower Valley Site, which is composed of the 
Americas Avenue/Zaragosa Bridge Industrial Parks; and,
    Site 3 (700 acres)--Eastern Region Industrial Park sites located 
at Americas Avenue and Interstate 10 in eastern El Paso, including a 
parcel (34 acres) located within the Vista Del Sol Industrial area 
(A(27f)-8-97, expires 12/31/99) and a parcel (7 acres) located 
within the 10/375 Industrial Park (A(27f)-48-97, expires 12/31/99).
    Site 4 (130 acres)--Copperfield Industrial Park located on 
Hawkins Boulevard at Tony Lama Street in Central El Paso, and;
    Site 5 (95 acres)--WWF Industries Park located on Highway 54 in 
northeastern El Paso.

    The applicant is now requesting authority to update, expand and 
reorganize Sites 2 and 3 as described below. The proposal includes a 
request to restore zone status to parcels (located within the existing 
or proposed zone sites) that had been temporary deleted from the zone 
boundary in earlier changes.

    Site 2: include the entire Americas Industrial Park (60 acres) 
within the zone boundary and add two adjacent parcels owned by 
Alderete Farms & Development in the Lower Valley Region, increasing 
the size of the zone site from 470 to 670 acres;
    Site 3: include the entire 10/375 Industrial Park and two 
adjacent parcels (210 acres) within the zone boundary (including 
existing Pine Springs temporary site); also include a 240-acre tract 
within the 2,230-acre Vista del Sol Industrial Park (including the 
existing International City temporary site), increasing the size of 
the zone site from 700 to 1,150 acres.

    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 Port Director, U.S. Customs Service, 797 S. Zaragosa 
Road, El Paso, Texas 79907
Office of the Executive Secretary, Foreign-Trade Zones Board, U.S. 
Department of Commerce, Room 3716, 14th & Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, 
Washington, DC 20230.

    Dated: February 2, 1998.
Dennis Puccinelli,
Acting Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 98-3484 Filed 2-10-98; 8:45 am]
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