[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 173 (Thursday, September 6, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Pages 46599-46600]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-22417]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Docket 35-2001]


Foreign-Trade Zone 35--Philadelphia, PA, Area Application for 
Expansion

    An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones (FTZ) 
Board (the Board) by the Philadelphia Regional Port Authority, grantee 
of FTZ 35, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, requesting authority to expand 
its zone to include a site in Fort Washington, Pennsylvania, adjacent 
to the Philadelphia 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

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regulations of the Board (15 CFR part 400). It was formally filed on 
August 28, 2001.
    FTZ 35 was approved on March 24, 1978 (Board Order 128, 43 FR 
14531, 4/6/78) and expanded on August 21, 1980 (Board Order 162, 45 FR 
58388, 9/3/80) and on December 29, 1993 (Board Order 678, 59 FR 1372, 
1/10/94). The zone project currently consists of seven sites in the 
Philadelphia area: Site 1 (176,541 sq. ft.)--located at Pier 78 South, 
Philadelphia; Site 2 (24 acres)--located at Pier 98 South Annex, 
Philadelphia; Site 3 (341,000 sq. ft.)--consisting of Piers 38 and 40, 
Philadelphia; Site 4 (35 acres)--Penn Terminals Complex, One Saville 
Avenue, Eddystone; Site 5 (19 acres)--warehouse complex located at 3033 
63rd Street, Philadelphia; Site 6 (32 acres)--Publicker Site, located 
at 2937 Christopher Columbus Boulevard, Philadelphia; and, Site 7 (2 
acres)--American Foodservice Corporation's cold storage facility, 
located at 400 Drew Court, King of Prussia. An application is pending 
with the Board to include the jet fuel storage and distribution system 
at the Philadelphia International Airport in Philadelphia and Tinicum 
Township, Pennsylvania (FTZ Docket 20-2001).
    The applicant is now requesting authority to expand the general-
purpose zone to include an additional site (Proposed Site 9, 66 acres) 
at the Fort Washington Exposition Center, located at 1100 Virginia 
Drive within the Fort Washington Industrial and Office Park, Fort 
Washington. The site is owned by 1100 Virginia Drive Associates. 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 November 5, 2001. Rebuttal comments in response to 
material submitted during the foregoing period may be submitted during 
the subsequent 15-day period to November 20, 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, The Curtis 
Center, Suite 580 West, 6th and Walnut Streets, Philadelphia, PA 19106
Office of the Executive Secretary, Foreign-Trade Zones Board, Room 
4008, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th & Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., 
Washington, DC 20230

    Dated: August 28, 2001.
Dennis Puccinelli,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 01-22417 Filed 9-5-01; 8:45 am]
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