[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 108 (Monday, June 5, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 35603-35604]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-14030]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Docket 21-2000]


Foreign-Trade Zone 183--Austin, Texas; Application for Expansion

    An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones Board 
(the Board) by the Foreign Trade Zone of Central Texas, Inc., grantee 
of FTZ 183, requesting authority to expand FTZ 183-Site 3 (High Tech 
Corridor site) in Austin, 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 May 26, 2000.
    FTZ 183 was approved on December 23, 1991 (Board Order 550, 57 FR 
42,  1/2/92), expanded twice in 1998 (Board Order 964, 63 FR 12837, 3/
23/98; Board Order 994, 63 FR 39071, 7/21/98), and expanded in 1999 
(Board Order 1035, 64 FR 19978, 4/23/99). The zone currently consists 
of eight sites in the Austin, Texas, area: Site 1 (317 acres, 7 
parcels)--Austin Enterprise site, within the Austin Enterprise Zone 
Area along Highway 290 and the Ben White Boulevard-Montopolis Drive 
area, Austin; Site 2 (50 acres)--Balcones Research site located in 
north central Austin at the intersection of Burnett Road and Longhorn 
Boulevard; Site 3 (1,336 acres, 11 parcels) High Tech Corridor site 
located along I-35, 14 miles north of downtown Austin (site straddles 
Austin-Round Rock City line); Site 4 (122 acres) Cedar Park site, some 
8 miles northwest of the Austin city limits, in Williamson County; Site 
5 (246 acres, 2 parcels) Round Rock ``SSC'' site located along I-35 
between Chandler Road and Westinghouse Road on the northern edge of the 
City of Round Rock; Site 6 (246 acres) Georgetown site, located along 
I-35 and U.S. 81, south of downtown Georgetown; Site 7 (40 acres) San 
Marcos site, located within the San Marcos Municipal Airport facility 
in eastern San Marcos, adjacent to State Highway 21, on the Hays 
County/Caldwell County line; and, Site 8 (200 acres) MET Center 
industrial park located between U.S. Highway 183 South and State 
Highway 71 East in southeast Austin, some 5 miles northwest of the new 
Austin Bergstrom International Airport.
    The applicant is now requesting authority to expand Site 3 to 
include two additional parcels (276 acres), located to the west of the 
existing site. The area consists of the tech.ridge

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corporate center and the Wells Branch Industrial Park. This proposed 
change will increase the FTZ area at Site 3 to 1,612 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 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 
August 4, 2000. Rebuttal comments in response to material submitted 
during the foregoing period may be submitted during the subsequent 15-
day period (to August 21, 2000).
    A copy of the application and accompanying exhibits will be 
available for public inspection at each of the following locations:

U.S. Department of Commerce, Export Assistance Center, 1700 Congress, 
Second Floor, Austin, TX 78701.
Office of the Executive Secretary, Foreign-Trade Zones Board, U.S. 
Department of Commerce, 14th & Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Room 4008, 
Washington DC 20230.

    Dated: May 26, 2000.
Dennis Puccinelli,
Acting Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 00-14030 Filed 6-2-00; 8:45 am]
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