[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 70 (Monday, April 13, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 17982-17983]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-9691]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board
[Docket 18-98]


Foreign-Trade Zone 7--Mayaguez, Puerto Rico Area Application for 
Expansion

    An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones (FTZ) 
Board (the Board) by the Puerto Rico Industrial Development Company 
(PRIDCO), a governmental instrumentality of the Commonwealth of Puerto 
Rico and grantee of Foreign-Trade Zone 7, requesting authority to 
expand FTZ 7 to include additional areas of the PRIDCO Industrial Park 
System, located adjacent to Puerto Rico Customs ports 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 7 was approved on June 27, 1960 (Board Order 50, 25 FR 6311, 7/
2/60) and expanded on June 28, 1968 (Board Order 76, 33 FR 10029, 7/12/
68) and November 16, 1972 (Board Order 91, 37 FR 24853, 11/22/72). The 
general-purpose zone currently consists of an industrial park site (44 
acres) located in Mayaguez and owned by PRIDCO (part of the PRIDCO 
Industrial Park System).
    The applicant, in a major revision to its zone plan, now requests 
authority to expand the general-purpose zone to include a major portion 
(4,500 acres; 18 mil. sq. ft.) of the PRIDCO Industrial Park System, 
which is owned by the Commonwealth through PRIDCO and operated and 
managed by PRIDCO as a key element of the government of Puerto Rico's 
economic development efforts. The applicant seeks FTZ status for all 
five of the industrial park system's sectors, which are located 
throughout

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Puerto Rico. Each of the sites consists of a number of parcels covering 
PRIDCO's available industrial park facilities (as described in 
Application Supplement A). 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, Plaza Torre, 525 F.D. 
Roosevelt Avenue, Suite 905, San Juan, PR 00918.
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. 98-9691 Filed 4-10-98; 8:45 am]
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