[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 221 (Monday, November 17, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Pages 64852-64853]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-28670]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Docket 57-2003]


Foreign-Trade Zone 219--Yuma, AZ; Application for Expansion

    An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones (FTZ) 
Board (the Board) by the Yuma County Airport Authority, Inc., grantee 
of Foreign-Trade Zone 219, requesting authority to expand FTZ 219, 
Yuma, Arizona, to include an additional site within the San Luis 
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 November 3, 2003.
    FTZ 219 was approved by the Board on April 2, 1997 (Board Order 
874, 62 FR 17580, 4/10/97), and expanded on April 5, 2001 (Board Order 
1161, 66 FR 19422, 4/16/01), and on February 7, 2003 (Board Order 1267, 
68 FR 9047, 2/27/03). The zone project currently consists of two sites 
in Yuma: Site 1 (125 acres) within the Yuma International Airport 
complex, 2191 East 32nd Street; and, Site 2 (95 acres)--Yuma Commerce 
Center, approximately 5 miles east of the Yuma International Airport on 
Business Loop Interstate 8.
    The applicant is now requesting authority to expand the general-
purpose zone to include an additional site (75 acres) in Yuma County: 
Proposed Site 3 (75 acres)--Big Industrial, LLC, warehouse facility, 
located at 10793 W. County 20\1/2\ Street, Somerton. This action will 
also formally terminate Subzone 219A (Meadowcraft) which closed in 2001 
and subsequently sold

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the property to Big Industrial, LLC. 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 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 January 16, 2004. Rebuttal 
comments in response to material submitted during the foregoing period 
may be submitted during the subsequent 15-day period (to February 2, 
2004).
    A copy of the application and accompanying exhibits will be 
available during this time for public inspection at the Office of the 
Foreign-Trade Zones Board's Executive Secretary at address Number 1 
listed above, and at the Yuma Main Library, 350 South 3rd Avenue, Yuma, 
Arizona 85364.

    Dated: November 4, 2003.
Dennis Puccinelli,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 03-28670 Filed 11-14-03; 8:45 am]
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