[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 81 (Wednesday, April 26, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 24446-24447]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-10415]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Docket 14-2000]


Foreign-Trade Zone 149--Freeport, Texas, Area; Application for 
Expansion

    An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones (FTZ) 
Board (the Board) by the Brazos River Harbor

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Navigation District, grantee of FTZ 149, requesting authority to expand 
its zone in the Freeport, Texas area, adjacent to the Freeport 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 
April 14, 2000.
    FTZ 149 was approved on June 28, 1988 (Board Order 385, 53 FR 
26096, 7/11/88). The zone project currently consists of the following 
sites (1,957 acres) within the Port of Freeport and at the Brazoria 
County Airport: Site 1 (280 acres)--on F.M. Route 1495 at the Freeport 
Harbor on the west side of the Brazos River Harbor Channel; Site 2 (154 
acres)--on Holly Street in Quintana, south of the Gulf Intracoastal 
Waterway; Site 3 (1,063 acres)--at the intersection of Highway 288 and 
F.M. Route 1495; Site 4 (242 acres)--on F.M. Route 1495, north of the 
Gulf Intracoastal Waterway and south of the Brazos River Harbor 
Channel; Site 5 (213 acres)--on County Road 723 south of Site 4 and the 
Gulf Intracoastal Waterway; and, Site 6 (5 acres)--located east of the 
main runway at the Brazoria County Airport.
    The applicant is now requesting authority to expand its general-
purpose zone to enlarge Site 6 at the Brazoria County Airport; add 3 
new sites (Proposed Sites 7-9) in the City of Pearland (Brazoria/Harris 
Counties), 38 miles north of Port Freeport; and, add a new site 
(Proposed Site 10) in the City of Alvin (Brazoria County), 30 miles 
north of Port Freeport. Site 6 will be expanded from 5 acres to 146 
acres within the 665-acre Brazoria County Airport/Industrial Park 
complex. The four new proposed sites are as follows: Proposed Site 7 
(506 acres)--Northern Industrial Complex, adjacent to Highway 35, 
Pearland (Brazoria County); Proposed Site 8 (832 acres)--Southern 
Industrial Complex, 4 miles from the Sam Houston Parkway/Beltway 8, 
Pearland (Brazoria County); Proposed Site 9 (146 acres)--Bybee-Sterling 
Complex, Hooper Road and Sam Houston Parkway, Pearland (Harris County); 
and, Proposed Site 10 (8 acres)--Santa Fe Industrial Park, 200 Avenue 
I, Alvin (Brazoria County). 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 26, 2000. Rebuttal comments in response to 
material submitted during the foregoing period may be submitted during 
the subsequent 15-day period (to July 10, 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, 2350 N. Sam Houston 
Parkway East, Suite 1000, Houston, TX 77032
Office of the Executive Secretary, Foreign-Trade Zones Board, Room 
3716, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th & Pennsylvania Avenue NW, 
Washington, DC 20230

    Dated: April 14, 2000.
Dennis Puccinelli,
Acting Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 00-10415 Filed 4-25-00; 8:45 am]
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