[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 36 (Wednesday, February 24, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Page 9127]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-4587]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Foreign-Trade Zones Board
[Docket 7-99]
Foreign-Trade Zone 106--Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Area;
Application for Expansion
An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones (FTZ)
Board (the Board) by the Port Authority of the Greater Oklahoma City
Area, grantee of FTZ 106, requesting authority to expand its zone in
the Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, area, within the Oklahoma City 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
February 12, 1999.
FTZ 106 was approved on September 14, 1984 (Board Order 271, 49 FR
37133, 9/21/84) and expanded on December 7, 1989 (Board Order 455, 54
F.R. 51441, 12/15/89). The zone project currently consists of the
following sites: Site 1 (876 acres)--within the 6,700-acre Will Rogers
World Airport complex; and, Site 2 (6 acres)--106,000-square foot
distribution and storage warehouse, 3501 Melcat Drive in the Lakeside
Business Park, less than a mile from the Will Rogers World Airport.
The applicant, in a major revision to its zone plan, now requests
authority to expand the general-purpose zone to include 9 new sites
(793 acres) in the Oklahoma City area (Proposed Sites 3-11): Proposed
Site 3 (5 acres)--Mid America Business Park 1 (owned by Russell
Vaught), 6205 S. Sooner, Oklahoma City; Proposed Site 4 (50 acres)--Mid
America Business Park II, (owned by Russell Vaught), Mid America Blvd.,
Oklahoma City; Proposed Site 5 (292 acres)--South River Industrial Park
(owned by the City of Oklahoma City), IH-35 and IH 40, Oklahoma City;
Proposed Site 6 (42 acres)--Continental Distribution Park (owned by
Clay T. Farha), SW 29th and Council, Oklahoma City; Proposed Site 7
(110 acres)--industrial park (owned by Western Heights Properties,
L.L.C.), south of SW 29th between S. Rockwell & Council, Oklahoma City;
Proposed Site 8 (30 acres)--Airport NE (owned by Oklahoma City Airport
Trust)--immediately northeast of Will Rogers World Airport, Oklahoma
City; Proposed Site 9 (200 acres)--Kelley Pointe Industrial Park (owned
by Clay T. Farha), 33rd Street and Kelley Ave., Edmond; Proposed Site
10 (43 acres)--Kelley Avenue International Trade Center (owned by
Jackson Financial Services, Inc.), south of 15th between Kelley Ave.
and AT&SF Railroad, Edmond; and, Proposed Site 11 (21 acres) Tower
Industrial Park, Tract II (owned by Steve E. Wells), Tower Drive and
Woodview, Moore. The application identifies the sites geographically
within the Oklahoma City area, as follows: Eastern Quadrant (Sites 3,
4, and 5); Western Quadrant (Sites 6, 7, and 8); Northern Quadrant
(Sites 9 and 10); and, Southern Quadrant (Site 11). 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 26, 1999. Rebuttal comments in response to
material submitted during the foregoing period may be submitted during
the subsequent 15-day period (to May 10, 1999).
A copy of the application and accompanying exhibits will be
available for public inspection at each of the following locations:
U.S. Department of Commerce, Export Assistance Center, 301 Northwest
63rd Street, Room 330, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73116
Office of the Executive Secretary, Foreign-Trade Zones Board, Room
3716, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th & Pennsylvania Avenue NW,
Washington, DC 20230
Dated: February 16, 1999.
Dennis Puccinelli,
Acting Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 99-4587 Filed 2-23-99; 8:45 am]
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