[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 197 (Friday, October 10, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Pages 58652-58653]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-25775]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Docket 52-2003]


Foreign-Trade Zone 7--Puerto Rico; Application for Expansion

    An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones (FTZ) 
Board (the Board) by the Puerto Rico Industrial Development Company 
(PRIDCO), a governmental instrumentality of the Commonwealth of Puerto 
Rico and grantee of Foreign-Trade Zone 7, requesting authority to 
expand its zone to include five additional sites in Puerto Rico. The 
application was submitted pursuant to the provisions of the Foreign-
Trade Zones Act, as amended

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(19 U.S.C. 81a-81u), and the regulations of the Board (15 CFR Part 
400). It was formally filed on October 2, 2003.
    FTZ 7 was approved on June 27, 1960 (Board Order 50, 25 FR 6311, 7/
2/60) and expanded on June 28, 1968 (Board Order 76, 33 FR 10029, 7/12/
68), November 16, 1972 (Board Order 91, 37 FR 24853, 11/22/72), and 
January 20, 1999 (Board Order 1020, 64 FR 5765, 2/5/99). The general-
purpose zone currently consists of multiple sites which are part of 
PRIDCO's Industrial Park System.
    The applicant is now requesting authority to expand the FTZ to 
include five additional sites which are not associated with PRIDCO's 
Industrial Park System. All of these sites are industrial-park or 
public-warehouse types of facilities that will be available for 
general-purpose activities to parties requiring FTZ procedures:
     1--``Public Warehouse in Guaynabo,'' to include 1.54 
acres located at Amelia Industrial Park, Diana Street, Lot  
27, Guaynabo;
     2--``Distribution Warehouse Center in Catano,'' to 
include 8.96 acres located on State Road 869 in Palmas Ward, Catano;
     3--``Distribution Center for the Caribbean in Catano,'' 
to include 16.75 acres located at Kennedy Avenue Km. 3.2, Catano;
     4--``Distribution Center in San Juan/Rio Piedras,'' to 
include 2.94 acres located at State Road  1 Km. 26.9, Rio 
Canas Ward, Rio Piedras; and
     5--``Industrial Park in Toa Baja,'' to include 40.1 acres 
located at State Road  865 Km. 4.9, Toa Baja.
    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 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 
CourtBuilding--Suite 4100W, 1099 14th St. 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 
Ave. NW., Washington, DC 20230.
    The closing period for their receipt is December 9, 2003. Rebuttal 
comments in response to material submitted during the foregoing period 
may be submitted during the subsequent 15-day period to December 24, 
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 address Number 1 listed above, and 
at the U.S. Department of Commerce Export Assistance Center, Midtown 
Building, 10th Floor, 420 Ponce de Leon Avenue, San Juan, PR 00918.

    Dated: October 2, 2003.
Dennis Puccinelli,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 03-25775 Filed 10-9-03; 8:45 am]
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