[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 68 (Friday, April 7, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Page 18282]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-8703]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Docket 12-2000]


Foreign-Trade Zone 79; Tampa, Florida: Application for Expansion

    An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones (FTZ) 
Board (the Board) by the City of Tampa, Florida, grantee of Foreign-
Trade Zone 79, requesting authority to expand its zone to include the 
Tampa International Airport fuel system which consists of the airport 
hydrant and storage facilities, a pipeline, and two offsite terminals, 
within the Tampa 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 March 28, 2000.
    FTZ 79 was approved on May 29, 1982 (Board Order 192, 47 FR 24760, 
6/8/82) and expanded on December 29, 1993 (Board Order 676, 59 F.R. 
1371, 1/10/94). The zone project currently consists of six sites in the 
Tampa area: Site 1 (600,000 sq. ft.) Tampa International Center at 
Adamo Drive and 22nd Street; Site 2 (35 acres) cargo complex adjacent 
to Tampa International Airport at Tampa Boulevard and Lauber Way, 
including a parcel at the airport's air cargo facility and the East 
Tampa Container Station (2 acres), located at 1831 Massaro Boulevard; 
Site 3 (50 acres) within the 127-acre Tampa Industrial Park, Malcolm 
McKinley Drive and Fowler Avenue; Site 4 (14 acres) Tampa Convention 
Center, 333 South Franklin Street; Site 5 (295 acres) at the Tampa Port 
Authority's Hooker's Point terminal complex at Maritime Boulevard; and 
Site 6 (33 acres) at Tampa Port Authority's George B. Howell terminal 
facility, located at 20th and Thrace Streets.
    The applicant is now requesting authority to expand the general-
purpose zone to include the jet fuel storage and distribution system 
(100 acres) at the Tampa International Airport. The airport fuel system 
includes the jet fuel storage farm (3 acres) and hydrant systems (23 
acres) at the Tampa International Airport; the petroleum products 
storage terminal of GATX (31 acres), Hookers Point, Port of Tampa 
section of the City of Tampa; the petroleum products storage terminal 
of Motiva (16 acres), 6500 W. Commerce Street, Port Tampa section of 
the City of Tampa; and, the Tampa Pipeline (26 acres), a dedicated jet 
fuel carrier line. The GATX terminal is owned and operated by GATX 
Terminals Corporation; the Motiva terminal is owned and operated by 
Motiva Enterprises LLC; and, the Tampa dedicated pipeline is owned by 
the Tampa Pipeline Limited Partnership. Hillsborough County Aviation 
Authority owns the property that contains the jet fuel storage and 
distribution facilities at the Tampa International Airport. The City of 
Tampa owns the land at the GATX terminal and the land at the Tampa 
Pipeline location. The airport property is leased to the member 
airlines of the Tampa Fuel Committee. The Aircraft Services 
International Group (ASIG) will operate the jet fuel storage and 
distribution facilities at the airport. In addition to the storage of 
jet fuel, the Motiva and GATX terminals may also use zone status for 
the receipt and storage of other petroleum products.
    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 June 6, 2000. Rebuttal comments in response to 
material submitted during the foregoing period may be submitted during 
the subsequent 15-day period (to June 21, 2000).
    A copy of the application and accompanying exhibits will be 
available for public inspection at each of the following locations:

Office of the Airport Services International Group, Tampa Airport 
Marriott Hotel, Suite A-23, Tampa, FL 33607
Office of the Executive Secretary, Foreign-Trade Zones Board, Room 
4008, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th & Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, 
Washington, DC 20230

    Dated: March 30, 2000.
Dennis Puccinelli,
Acting Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 00-8703 Filed 4-6-00; 8:45 am]
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