[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 214 (Friday, November 5, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 60408-60409]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-29063]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board
[Docket 53-99]


Foreign-Trade Zone 68--El Paso, TX; Application for Expansion

    An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones Board 
(the Board) by the City of El Paso, Texas, grantee of FTZ 68, 
requesting authority to expand its zone in El Paso, Texas, within the 
El Paso Customs port of entry. The application was submitted pursuant 
to the provisions of the Foreign-Trade Zones Act (19 U.S.C. 81a-81u), 
and the regulations of the Board (15 CFR Part 400). It was formally 
filed on October 26, 1999.
    FTZ 68 was approved on April 14, 1981 (Board Order 175, 46 FR 
22918; 4/22/81). On September 30, 1982, the grant of authority was 
reissued to the City of El Paso, Texas (Board Order 193, 47 FR 45065; 
10/13/82). The zone was expanded in 1984 (Board Order 255, 49 FR 22842; 
6/1/84), in 1991 (Board Order 504, 56 FR 1166; 1/11/91) and in 1999 
(Board Order 1019, 64 FR 5765; 2/5/99). FTZ 68 currently consists of 
five sites (2,635 acres) in the El Paso, Texas, area:

    Site 1 (590 acres)--El Paso Airport's Butterfield Trail 
Industrial Park;
    Site 2 (670 acres)--Lower Valley Site, which is composed of the 
Americas Avenue/Zaragoza Bridge Industrial Parks (470 acres), the 
Americas Industrial Park (60 acres), and two adjacent parcels owned 
by Alderete Farms & Development (140 acres). In addition, a minor 
boundary modification was approved in June of 1998 (A(27f)21-98) to 
temporarily include a nearby site (Thomson, 44 acres, expires 7/1/
02).
    Site 3 (1,150 acres)--includes the Eastern Region Industrial 
Park sites located at Americas Avenue and Interstate 10 in eastern 
El Paso (700 acres), the entire 10/375 Industrial Park and two 
adjacent parcels (210 acres) and a 240-acre tract within the 2,230-
acre Vista del Sol Industrial Park;
    Site 4 (130 acres)--Copperfield Industrial Park located on 
Hawkins Boulevard at Tony Lama Street in Central El Paso, and;
    Site 5 (95 acres)--WWF Industries Park located on Highway 54 in 
northeastern El Paso.

The applicant is now requesting authority to update, expand and 
reorganize Sites 2 and 3 as described below. The proposal includes a 
request to restore zone status to parcels (located within the existing 
or proposed zone sites) that had been deleted from the zone boundary in 
earlier changes.

    Site 2: Include the entire 145-acre industrial development in 
Socorro, of which the existing Thomson site is a part, thereby 
making it a permanent zone site, and add a 17-acre parcel adjacent 
to the Pan American Center for Industry increasing the size of Site 
2 to 832 acres.
    Site 3: Clarify existing FTZ boundaries (1029 acres) and include 
the 232-acre Montana Avenue site located east of Loop 375 within the 
zone boundary and increase the Vista del Sol Industrial Park Site by 
95 acres (including the reinstatement of the 58 acres previously 
deleted), increasing the size of Site 3 to 1,356 acres.

    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 January 4, 2000. Rebuttal comments in response to 
material submitted during the foregoing period may be submitted during 
the subsequent 15-day period (to January 19, 2000).
    A copy of the application and accompanying exhibits will be 
available for public inspection at each of the following locations:


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Office of the Port Director, U.S. Customs Service, 797 S. Zaragoza 
Road, El Paso, Texas 79907
Office of the Executive Secretary, Foreign-Trade Zones Board, U.S. 
Department of Commerce, Room 4008, 14th & Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, 
Washington, DC 20230.

    Dated: October 29, 1999.
Dennis Puccinelli,
Acting Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 99-29063 Filed 11-4-99; 8:45 am]
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