[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 206 (Tuesday, October 26, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Page 57626]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-27957]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board
[Docket 48-99]


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 a site in Gainesville (Prince 
William County), Virginia, within the Washington, DC, 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 
October 14, 1999.
    FTZ 137 was approved on April 17, 1987 (Board Order 350, 52 FR 
13489, 4/23/87). The zone project currently consists of sites (392 
acres) at and adjacent to the Washington Dulles International Airport 
complex, Fairfax and Loudoun Counties: Site 1--within the airport 
complex; Site 2--warehouse facility, 110 Terminal Drive, Sterling; and, 
Site 3--near the intersection of Routes 606 and 621, Loudoun County. 
Two applications are currently pending with the Board for two 
additional sites in Virginia's Eastern Shore region (Doc. 44-98) and 
three additional sites in the Winchester-Frederick County area (Doc. 
46-99).
    This application is requesting authority to expand the general-
purpose zone to include an additional site (171 acres) in Gainesville, 
Virginia (Proposed Site 9): Proposed Site 9 (171 acres)--within the 
435-acre Virginia Gateway Development, southwest quadrant of the I-66/
Rt. 29 interchange, Gainesville. The site is owned by Virginia Gateway 
Associates L.P., an affiliate of The Peterson companies. 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 December 27, 1999. Rebuttal comments in response 
to material submitted during the foregoing period may be submitted 
during the subsequent 15-day period (to January 10, 2000).
    A copy of the application and accompanying exhibits will be 
available for public inspection at each of the following locations:

Washington Dulles Foreign Trade Zone, Inc., 44701 Propeller Court, 
Dulles, VA 20166
Office of the Executive Secretary, Foreign-Trade Zones Board, Room 
3716, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th & Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, 
Washington, DC 20230

    Dated: October 15, 1999.
Dennis Puccinelli,
Acting Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 99-27957 Filed 10-25-99; 8:45 am]
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