[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 186 (Friday, September 25, 1998)] [Notices] [Page 51338] From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov] [FR Doc No: 98-25725] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE Foreign-Trade Zones Board [Docket 44-98] Foreign-Trade Zone 137--Washington Dulles International Airport, Virginia Area; Application for Expansion An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones (FTZ) Board (the Board) by Washington Dulles Foreign Trade Zone, Inc., grantee of FTZ 137 (Fairfax/Loudoun Counties, Virginia), requesting authority to expand its zone to include sites in Virginia's Eastern Shore region, adjacent to the Cambridge, Maryland and Norfolk-Newport News, Virginia, 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 September 15, 1998. FTZ 137 was approved on April 17, 1987 (Board Order 350, 52 F.R. 13489, 4/23/87). The zone project currently consists of the following sites (250 acres): Site 1--within the Washington Dulles International Airport complex, Fairfax and Loudoun Counties; and, Site 2--warehouse facility, 110 Terminal Drive, Sterling. An application is currently pending with the Board for an additional site in Loudoun County, two miles west of the airport (Doc. 40-97). This application is requesting authority to expand the general- purpose zone to include 3 new sites (6,788 acres) in the Eastern Shore region of Virginia (Proposed Sites 4-6): Proposed Site 4 (6,187 acres, 2 parcels)--the Goddard Space Flight Center-Wallops Flight Facility (Accomack County), owned by NASA--Parcel 1 (1,856 acres)--NASA Wallop Flight Facility-Main Base (a former U.S. naval air station), Accomack County; and, Parcel 2 (4,331 acres)--NASA Wallop Flight Facility, Wallops Island, Chincoteague (Accomack County); Proposed Site 5 (449 acres)--Accomack Airport Industrial Park, U.S. Highway 13 & Parkway Road, Melfa (Accomack County); and, Proposed Site 6 (130 acres)--within the 579-acre Port of Cape Charles Sustainable Technologies Industrial Park, two miles from U.S. 13 on SR 1108, Bayshore Drive, Northampton County, Virginia. NASA has signed an agreement with the Virginia Commercial Space Flight Authority (VCSFA) that allows VCSFA to develop proposed Site 4 as a center for commercial space launch services. The Wallops Flight Facility includes orbital tracking stations, research facilities, and facilities for testing, assembly and preparation of rockets and payloads, as well as several launch platforms suitable for military and commercial rocket launches. Proposed Site 5 is owned by Accomack County, Virginia, and the Accomack Industrial Development Authority. Proposed Site 6 is owned by Northampton County, Virginia. 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 November 24, 1998. Rebuttal comments in response to material submitted during the foregoing period may be submitted during the subsequent 15-day period to December 9, 1998. A copy of the application and accompanying exhibits will be available for public inspection at each of the following locations: Eastern Shore of Virginia Economic, Development Commission, 23372 Front Street, Accomac, VA 23301, Office of the Executive Secretary, Foreign-Trade Zones Board, Room 3716, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th & Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20230 Dated: September 17, 1998. Dennis Puccinelli, Acting Executive Secretary. [FR Doc. 98-25725 Filed 9-24-98; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 3510-DS-P