[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 133 (Wednesday, July 11, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Page 36251]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-17374]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Docket 31-2001]


Foreign-Trade Zone 171--Liberty County, Texas; Application for 
Expansion

    An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones (FTZ) 
Board (the Board) by the Liberty County Economic Development 
Corporation, grantee of FTZ 171, requesting authority to expand its 
zone in Liberty County, Texas, adjacent to the Houston 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 3, 2001.
    FTZ 171 was approved on January 4, 1991 (Board Order 501, 56 FR 
1166, 1/11/91) and expanded on August 9, 1999 (Board Order 1049, 64 FR 
46181, 8/24/99). The zone project currently consists of 5 sites (834 
acres) in Liberty County: Site 1 (150 acres)--City of Cleveland's 
International Industrial Park on Highway FM 2025 west of U.S. Highway 
59; Site 2 (50 acres) located between West Bay Road and FM 1405 within 
the western portion of the 15,000-acre Cedar Crossing Industrial Park 
in the City of Baytown (Chambers County) (expires 7/15/02); Site 3 (27 
acres)--industrial park on the Trinity River some 2 miles south of U.S. 
Highway 90, City of Liberty; Site 4 (24 acres)--within the Cleveland 
Municipal Airport facility, Highway FM 787, Liberty County; and, Site 5 
(583 acres)--Sjolander Plastics Storage Railyard facility, adjacent to 
Highway 146, approximately 2 miles south of Dayton (Liberty County).
    The applicant is now requesting authority to expand existing Site 2 
to include an additional 150 acres at the Cedar Crossing Industrial 
Park in Baytown. A temporary boundary modification was approved on 
March 16, 2001 (A(27f)-11-2001), removing the original Site 2 at the 
Port of Liberty County Industrial Park (45 acres) from zone status. The 
applicant is also requesting that the original Site 2 be restored to 
zone status and that the Cedar Crossing site be redesignated as Site 6 
on a permanent basis. 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 10, 2001). Rebuttal comments in response 
to material submitted during the foregoing period may be submitted 
during the subsequent 15-day period (to September 24, 2001).
    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, 500 Dallas, 
#1160, Houston, TX 77002
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 3, 2001.
Dennis Puccinelli,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 01-17374 Filed 7-10-01; 8:45 am]
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