[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 70 (Monday, April 13, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Page 17983]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-9690]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board
[Docket 17-98]


Foreign-Trade Zone 39--Dallas/Fort Worth, TX; Application for 
Expansion

    An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones (FTZ) 
Board (the Board) by the Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport Board, 
grantee of FTZ 39, requesting authority to expand its zone in Dallas/
Fort Worth, Texas, within the Dallas/Fort Worth 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 
April 2, 1998.
    FTZ 39 was approved on August 17, 1978 (Board Order 133, 43 FR 
37478, 8/23/78) and expanded on December 11, 1992 (Board Order 613, 57 
FR 61046, 12/23/92) and December 27, 1994 (Board Order 724, 60 FR 2376, 
1/9/95). The zone project currently consists of the following sites: 
Site 1 (2,400 acres)--within the 18,000-acre Dallas/Fort Worth 
International Airport complex; Site 2 (754 acres)--Southport Centre 
Industrial Park, South Dallas; and, Site 3 (552 acres)--within the 
1,100-acre Grayson County Airport complex, Grayson County.
    The applicant is now requesting authority to expand the general-
purpose zone to include an additional site: Proposed Site 4 (644 acres, 
3 parcels)--Railhead Fort Worth site, intersection of Loop 820 (the Jim 
Wright Freeway) and Blue Mound Road (FM 156), Fort Worth. The site 
consists primarily of a rail-served, master-planned facility with space 
available for warehousing, distribution or manufacturing activity. The 
site includes a rail transloading station and is owned by Meacham Rail 
191 Limited Partnership, E-Systems and Burlington Northern Santa Fe 
Railroad. 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 June 12, 1998. Rebuttal comments in response to 
material submitted during the foregoing period may be submitted during 
the subsequent 15-day period (to June 29, 1998).
    A copy of the application and accompanying exhibits will be 
available for public inspection at each of the following locations:

Department of Commerce, Export Assistance Center, 2050 N. Stemmons 
Freeway, Suite 170, Dallas, TX 75207.
Office of the Executive Secretary, Foreign-Trade Zones Board, Room 
3716, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th & Pennsylvania Avenue NW, 
Washington, DC 20230.

    Dated: April 3, 1998.
Dennis Puccinelli,
Acting Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 98-9690 Filed 4-10-98; 8:45 am]
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