[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 48 (Friday, March 10, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 12970-12971]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-5939]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Docket 7-2000]


Foreign-Trade Zone 94--Laredo, Texas; Application for Expansion

    An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones Board 
(the Board) by the City of Laredo, Texas, grantee of FTZ 94, requesting 
authority to expand the zone to include an additional site in Laredo, 
Texas. 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 
March 3, 2000.
    FTZ 94 was approved on November 22, 1983 (Board Order 235, 48 FR 
53737, 11/29/83) and expanded on March 26, 1990 (Board Order 468, 55 FR 
12696, 4/5/90); on December 29, 1992 (Board Order 620, 58 FR 3533, 1/
11/93); and, on January 17, 1997 (Board Order 866, 62 FR 4028, 1/28/
97). The zone project currently consists of five sites in the Laredo 
area: Site 1 (500 acres)--within the 1,600-acre city-owned Laredo

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International Airport Industrial Park; Site 2 (20 acres)--industrial 
park owned by the Texas-Mexican Railway, along Highway 359 in Webb 
County; Site 3 (550 acres)--within the 1,400-acre Killiam industrial 
area, owned by Killiam Oil Co., at 12800 Old Mines Road; Site 4 (1,500 
acres)--within 7,000-acre International Commerce Center, Laredo 
Northwest business and residential development; and Site 5 (930 
acres)--La Barranca Ranch Industrial Park, owned by Librado Pina, Inc., 
Interstate Highway 35, adjacent to the Union Pacific rail line, in 
northern Webb County.
    The applicant is now requesting authority to expand the zone to 
include a site in Laredo: Proposed Site 6 (682 acres)--Unitec 
Industrial Center, Interstate Highway 35, 12 miles northwest of Laredo 
International Airport. The privately-owned industrial park/distribution 
center is served by rail and has 1.5 million square feet of existing 
warehouse space. 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 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 
May 9, 2000. Rebuttal comments in response to material submitted during 
the foregoing period may be submitted during the subsequent 15-day 
period (to May 24, 2000).
    A copy of the application and accompanying exhibits will be 
available for public inspection at each of the following locations:

Office of the Port Director, U.S. Customs Service, Lincoln Juarez 
Bridge, Administrative Building #2, Laredo, TX 78040.
Office of the Executive Secretary, Foreign-Trade Zones Board, U.S. 
Department of Commerce 14th & Pennsylvania Avenue NW., Washington, DC 
20230.

    Dated: March 3, 2000.
Dennis Puccinelli,
Acting Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 00-5939 Filed 3-9-00; 8:45 am]
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