[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 136 (Friday, July 14, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 43736-43737]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-17906]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Docket 36-2000]


Foreign-Trade Zone 173--Grays Harbor County, Washington; 
Application for Expansion

    An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones (FTZ) 
Board (the Board), by the Port of Grays Harbor (PGH), grantee of 
Foreign-Trade Zone 173, requesting authority to expand its zone in 
Grays Harbor County, Washington, adjacent to the Aberdeen 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 
July 10, 2000.
    FTZ 173 was approved on February 1, 1991 (Board Order 503, 56 FR 
5384, 2/11/91) and includes subzone status for the manufacturing plant 
of Lamb-Grays Harbor Company (Subzone 173A) in Hoquiam. The general-
purpose zone currently consists of five sites (589 acres) in Grays 
Harbor County: Site 1 (292 acres)--PGH Port Industrial area, including 
a marine terminal complex, Aberdeen and Hoquiam; Site 2 (45 acres)--PGH 
Industrial Development District No.1, Harbor Navigation Channel, 
Hoquiam; Site 3 (132 acres)--Bowerman Airfield and adjacent industrial 
park, Grays Harbor County; Site 4 (117 acres)--PGH industrial parcel on 
State Highway 105, Westport Marina, Westport; and, Site 5 (3 acres)--
Westport Marina, Main Dock, Westport.
    The applicant is now requesting authority to expand its general-
purpose zone to enlarge Site 1 and to add 2 new sites in Grays Harbor 
County. Site 1 will be expanded from 292 acres to 367 acres at the PGH-
Port Industrial Area site in Hoquiam and Aberdeen. The two new proposed 
sites are as follows: Proposed Site 6 (150 acres)--PGH Terminal 3, 
Marine Terminal and Industrial Park, 616 Airport Way and 400 Airport 
Way, Hoquiam; and, Proposed Site 7 (440 acres)--Satsop Development 
Park, 471 Lambert Road, Elma. Expanded Site 1 and Proposed Site 3 are 
owned by PGH and Proposed Site 2 is owned by the Grays Harbor Public 
Development Authority. 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 September 12, 2000. Rebuttal comments in response 
to material submitted during the foregoing period may be submitted 
during the subsequent 15-day period (to September 27, 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 of Grays Harbor, 111 S. Wooding Street, Aberdeen, WA 
98520.
Office of the Executive Secretary, Foreign-Trade Zones Board, Room 
4008, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th & Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, 
Washington, DC 20230.

    Dated: July 10, 2000.
Dennis Puccinelli,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 00-17906 Filed 7-13-00; 8:45 am]
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