[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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