[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 173 (Friday, September 6, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Pages 56984-56985]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-22747]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Docket 33-2002]


Foreign-Trade Zone 226, Merced, Madera, Fresno and Tulare 
Counties, CA; Application for Expansion

    An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones (FTZ) 
Board (the Board) by the County of Merced, California, grantee of FTZ 
226, requesting authority to expand and reorganize its zone in Tulare 
and Fresno Counties, California, within and adjacent to the Fresno 
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 26, 2002.
    FTZ 226 was approved on December 22, 1997 (Board Order 946, 63 F.R. 
778, 1/7/98). A minor boundary modification (A(27f)-26-2002) was 
approved in mid-2002 which temporarily added and deleted certain sites. 
The zone project currently consists of the following sites within and 
adjacent to the Fresno Customs port of entry area: Site 1: (820 
acres)--Castle Airport Morimoto Industrial Park (formerly Castle Air 
Force Base), 3450 C Street, Atwater (Merced County); Site 2 (48 acres 
total)--6 acres at 7530 W. Sunnyview, 12 acres at 8505 W. Doe Avenue 
and 30 acres at the corner of Ferguson Avenue and Plaza Drive within 
the MidState 99 Distribution Center, Visalia (Tulare County); Site 3 
(191 acres)--Mid Cal Business Park, Highway 33, Gustine (Merced 
County); Site 4 (204 acres)--within the Applegate Business Park, 
Highway 33, Air Park Road, Atwater (Merced County); Site 4a (15 
acres)--located at 810 E. Continental Avenue, Tulare (Tulare County); 
Site 5 (118 acres)--South Merced Airport Industrial Park, Albatross 
Avenue, Merced (Merced County); Site 6 (101 acres)--City of Madera 
Airport Industrial Park/State Center Commerce Park (within State 
Enterprise Zone), Falcon Drive, Madera (Madera County); Site 7 (10 
acres)--City of Madera Industrial Park (within State Enterprise Zone), 
2500 West Industrial Avenue, Madera (Madera County); Site 8 (102 
acres)--Airways East Business Park, East Shields Avenue, Fresno (Fresno 
County); Site 9 (225 acres)--Central Valley Business Park, East North 
Avenue, Fresno (Fresno County); Site 10 (501 acres)--Fresno Airport 
Industrial Park/City of Clovis Industrial Park, Aircorp Way, Fresno and 
West Dakota Avenue & West Pontiac Way, Clovis (Fresno County); Site 11 
(35 acres)--Reedley Industrial Park II, 1301 South Buttonwillow Avenue, 
Reedley (Fresno County); and, Site 12 (147 acres)--City of Selma 
Industrial Park, East Nebraska, Selma (Fresno County).
    The applicant is now requesting authority to expand and reorganize 
the zone as described below. The proposal requests extension of zone 
status for parcels with temporary authority, permanent deletion of the 
sites/parcels that were temporarily deleted, deletion of certain 
additional sites, and expansion of existing Site 2 to include two new 
parcels.
    Site 2 will be reorganized and expanded to include on a permanent 
basis the temporary sites at the MidState 99 Distribution Center (48 
acres) and to add two new parcels (203 acres) within the 344-acre 
industrial park located in Visalia (Tulare County). Zone status is also 
being requested on a permanent basis for the temporary site (25 acres) 
at the Fresno Yosemite International Airport in Fresno (Site 10, as 
listed above). The application is also requesting authority to 
permanently delete a parcel (20 acres) from existing Site 1 and to 
delete Site 5 in its entirety (118 acres), as well as formalize the 
deletions made in the boundary modification. The total size of Site 2 
will be increased to 251 acres while the size of Site 1 will be 
decreased to 800 acres. (The following sites would remain unchanged as 
listed above: 3, 4, 6-9, 11, 12.) 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 one of the following addresses:
    1. Submissions via Express/Package Delivery Services: Foreign-Trade 
Zones Board, U.S. Department of Commerce, Franklin Court Building-Suite 
4100W, 1099-14th Street, NW., Washington, DC 20005; or
    2. Submissions via the U.S. Postal Service: Foreign-Trade Zones 
Board, U.S. Department of Commerce, FCB-Suite 4100W, 1401 Constitution 
Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20230.
    The closing period for their receipt is November 5, 2002. Rebuttal 
comments in response to material submitted during the foregoing period 
may be

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submitted during the subsequent 15-day period (to November 20, 2002).
    A copy of the application and accompanying exhibits will be 
available during this time for public inspection at address Number 1 
listed above, and at the Merced County Action Business Center, 2000 M 
Street, Merced, CA 95340.

    Dated: August 26, 2002.
Dennis Puccinelli,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 02-22747 Filed 9-5-02; 8:45 am]
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