[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]


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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]
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