[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 170 (Thursday, August 31, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 52984-52985]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-22217]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Docket 52-2000]


Foreign-Trade Zone 44--Mount Olive, New Jersey, Area; Application 
for Expansion

    An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones (FTZ) 
Board (the Board), by the New Jersey Commerce and Economic Growth 
Commission, grantee of Foreign-Trade Zone 44, requesting authority to 
expand its zone in the Mt. Olive, New Jersey, area, within the New 
York/Newark 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 August 22, 2000.
    FTZ 44 was approved on October 19, 1978 (Board Order 139, 43 FR 
50234,10/27/78). The general-purpose zone currently consists of one 
site (77 acres) within the 650-acre International Trade Center located 
in the Mt. Olive Township of Morris County, New Jersey.
    The applicant is now requesting authority to expand its general 
purpose zone to include an additional site: Proposed Site 2 (309 acres, 
2 parcels)--Rockefeller Cranbury Industrial Park (Carter-Wallace, Inc./
the Rockefeller Group), Half Acre Road and north of Cranbury Station 
Road in Cranbury Township, Middlesex 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 October 30, 2000. Rebuttal comments in response to 
material submitted during the foregoing period may be submitted during 
the subsequent 15-day period to November 14, 2000.
    A copy of the application and accompanying exhibits will be 
available for public inspection at each of the following locations:

Office of the Rockefeller Group, 500 International Drive--North, Suite 
345, Mount Olive, NJ 07828;

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Office of the Executive Secretary, Foreign-Trade Zones Board, Room 
4008, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th and Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., 
Washington, DC 20230.

    Dated: August 24, 2000.
Dennis Puccinelli,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 00-22217 Filed 8-30-00; 8:45 am]
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