[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 237 (Monday, December 12, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Pages 73432-73433]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 05-23922]


=======================================================================
-----------------------------------------------------------------------

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Docket 59-2005]


Foreign-Trade Zone 68--El Paso, Texas; Application for Expansion

    An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones Board 
(the Board) by the City of El Paso, Texas, grantee of FTZ 68, 
requesting authority to expand its zone in El Paso, Texas, within the 
El Paso Customs port of entry. The application was submitted pursuant 
to the provisions of the

[[Page 73433]]

Foreign-Trade Zones Act (19 U.S.C. 81a-81u), and the regulations of the 
Board (15 CFR Part 400). It was formally filed on November 29, 2005.
    FTZ 68 was approved on April 14, 1981 (Board Order 175, 46 FR 
22918; 4/22/81). On September 30, 1982, the grant of authority was 
reissued to the City of El Paso, Texas (Board Order 193, 47 FR 45065, 
10/13/82). The zone was expanded in 1984 (Board Order 255, 49 FR 22842, 
6/1/84); in 1991 (Board Order 504, 56 FR 1166, 1/11/91); in 1999 (Board 
Order 1019, 64 FR 5765, 2/5/99); and, in 2000 (Board Order 1119, 65 FR 
57167, 9/21/00).
    FTZ 68 currently consists of five sites (3,003 acres) in the El 
Paso, Texas, area: Site 1 (590 acres)--El Paso Airport's Butterfield 
Trail Industrial Park; Site 2 (832 acres)--Lower Valley Site, including 
the Americas Avenue/Zaragosa Bridge Industrial Parks located at the Pan 
American Center for Industry (281 acres), El Paso Public Service Board 
Park (51 acres), Ivey Development/AAA Park (90 acres), Yselta 
Industrial Park (64 acres), Americas Industrial Park and two adjacent 
parcels (200 acres), and Socorro Industrial Development (145 acres); 
Site 3 (1,356 acres)--East Region Site includes the Eastern Region 
Industrial Park sites located at Americas Avenue and Interstate 10 in 
eastern El Paso (579 acres), the entire 10/375 Industrial Park and two 
adjacent parcels (210 acres), 335-acre tract within the 2,230-acre 
Vista del Sol Industrial Park, and a 232-acre parcel located at Montana 
Avenue, east of Loop 375; Site 4 (130 acres)--Copperfield Industrial 
Park located on Hawkins Boulevard at Tony Lama Street in Central El 
Paso; and; Site 5 (95 acres)--WWF Industries Park located on Highway 54 
in northeastern El Paso.
    The applicant is now requesting authority to expand Site 1 to 
include the 475-acre city-owned El Paso International Airport Air Cargo 
Complex and adjacent industrial park (new total - 1,065 acres). The 
proposed site is suitable for warehousing, distribution, assembly and 
light manufacturing activities. The applicant is also requesting 
authority to remove 35 acres from zone status at Site 2-Ivey 
Development/AAA Park (new total - 55 acres) due to changed 
circumstances (new Site 2 total - 796 acres). 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 February 10, 2006. Rebuttal 
comments in response to material submitted during the foregoing period 
may be submitted during the subsequent 15-day period (to February 27, 
2006).
    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 the first address 
listed above, and at the City of El Paso, 501 George Perry Boulevard, 
Suite 1, El Paso, Texas 79906.

    Dated: November 30, 2005.
Dennis Puccinelli,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 05-23922 Filed 12-9-05; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 3510-DS-S