[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 55 (Monday, March 22, 2004)]
[Notices]
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From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 04-6345]



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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Docket 9-2004]


Foreign-Trade Zone 24--Pittston, PA; Application for Expansion

    An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones (FTZ) 
Board (the Board) by the Eastern Distribution Center, Inc., grantee of 
Foreign-Trade Zone 24, requesting authority to expand FTZ 24 to include 
an additional site in the Pittston, Pennsylvania, area, within the 
Wilkes-Barre/Scranton 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 March 11, 2004.
    FTZ 24 was approved on October 21, 1976 (Board Order 112, 41 FR 
47288, 10/28/76). The zone project currently consists of a 42-acre site 
within the 265-acre Eastern Distribution Center, located midway between 
Scranton and Wilkes-Barre, adjacent to the Wilkes-Barre/ Scranton 
International Airport.
    The applicant is now requesting authority to expand the general-
purpose zone to include an additional site in the area: Proposed Site 2 
consists of 1,076 acres (2 parcels) within a 1,303-acre site (excluding 
the areas that are zoned S-1 (Special Purpose) (227 acres)): Proposed 
Site 2A (944 acres)--Valley View Business Park, located along Route 6 
at the Route 247 interchange in the Boroughs of Jessup and Archbald; 
and, Proposed Site 2B (132 acres)--Jessup Small Business Center, 
located at the intersection of Route 6 and Route 247 on Sunnyside Road 
in the Borough of Jessup. The property is owned by the Scranton 
Lackawanna Industrial Building Company. 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 May 21, 2004. Rebuttal 
comments in response to material submitted during the foregoing period 
may be submitted during the subsequent 15-day period (to June 7, 2004).
    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 Eastern Distribution Center, Inc., 1151 Oak 
Street, Pittston, PA 18640.

    Dated: March 12, 2004.
Dennis Puccinelli,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 04-6345 Filed 3-19-04; 8:45 am]
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