[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 123 (Thursday, June 26, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Page 38010]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-16222]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Docket 31-2003]


Foreign-Trade Zone 93--Research Triangle Park, NC, Area 
Application for Expansion

    An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones (FTZ) 
Board (the Board) by the Triangle J Council of Governments, grantee of 
Foreign-Trade Zone 93, requesting authority to expand FTZ 93, in the 
Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, area, within the Raleigh-Durham 
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 June 18, 2003.
    FTZ 93 was approved on November 4, 1983 (Board Order 233, 48 FR 
52108, 11/16/83). The zone project currently consists of the following 
sites: Site 1 (121 acres)--within the Imperial Center Industrial Park, 
adjoining the Research Triangle Park in Durham County; Site 1A 
(temporary; 85 acres)--World Trade Park, adjacent to Raleigh-Durham 
International Airport; Site 2 (6 acres)--5604 Departure Drive, Raleigh; 
and, Site 3 (110 acres)--Woodland Industrial Park, Highway 56 and I-85, 
Granville County.
    The applicant is now requesting authority to expand the general-
purpose zone to replace existing Site 3 with a new site and to make 
temporary Site 1A permanent. Proposed New Site 3 (240 acres) would be 
located at the Holly Springs Business Park (owned by G&G Properties), 
at the intersection of West Balletine Street and Irving Parkway, Holly 
Springs. It is also being requested at this time that temporary Site 1A 
(expires 10/1/03), which has been fully activated, be made permanent. 
No specific manufacturing authority is being requested 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 addresses below:
    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 August 25, 2003. Rebuttal 
comments in response to material submitted during the foregoing period 
may be submitted during the subsequent 15-day period (to September 9, 
2003).
    A copy of the application and accompanying exhibits will be 
available for public inspection at the Office of the Foreign-Trade 
Zones Board's Executive Secretary at the first address listed above, 
and at the Office of the Economic Development Department, Town of Holly 
Springs, 128 South Main Street, Holly Springs, North Carolina 27540.

    Dated: June 19, 2003.
Dennis Puccinelli,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 03-16222 Filed 6-25-03; 8:45 am]
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