[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 27 (Thursday, February 9, 2006)]
[Notices]
[Pages 6752-6753]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 06-1224]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Docket 2-2006]


Foreign-Trade Zone 106--Oklahoma City, OK, Area Application for 
Reorganization/Expansion

    An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones (FTZ) 
Board (the Board) by the Port Authority of the Greater Oklahoma City 
Area, grantee of FTZ 106, requesting authority to expand its zone in 
the Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, area, within and adjacent to the Oklahoma 
City 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 January 30, 2006.
    FTZ 106 was approved on September 14, 1984 (Board Order 271, 49 FR 
37133, 9/21/84) and expanded on December 7, 1989 (Board Order 455, 54 
FR 51441, 12/15/89), and on February 10, 2000 (Board Order 1078, 65 FR 
8337, 2/18/00).
    FTZ 106 currently consists of 11 sites (1,675 acres) in the 
Oklahoma City area: Site 1 (876 acres)--within the 6,700-acre Will 
Rogers World Airport complex; Site 2 (6 acres)--106,000-square foot 
distribution and storage warehouse, 3501 Melcat Drive in the Lakeside 
Business Park, adjacent to the Will Rogers World Airport; Site 3 (5 
acres)--Mid America Business Park I, 6205 S. Sooner, Oklahoma City; 
Site 4 (50 acres)--Mid America Business Park II, Mid America Boulevard, 
Oklahoma City; Site 5 (292 acres)--South River Industrial Park, IH-35 
and IH 40, Oklahoma City; Site 6 (42 acres)--Continental Distribution 
Park, SW. 29th and Council, Oklahoma City; Site 7 (110 acres)--Western 
Heights Properties, L.L.C., industrial park, south of SW. 29th between 
South Rockwell &

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Council, Oklahoma City; Site 8 (30 acres)--Airport NE. located 
northeast of Will Rogers World Airport, Oklahoma City; Site 9 (200 
acres)--Kelley Pointe Industrial Park, 33rd Street and Kelley Avenue, 
Edmond; Site 10 (43 acres)--Kelley Avenue International Trade Center, 
south of 15th between Kelley Avenue and AT&SF Railroad, Edmond; and, 
Site 11 (21 acres)--Tower Industrial Park, Tract II, Tower Drive and 
Woodview, Moore.
    The applicant is requesting authority to expand Site 1 to include 
an additional 185 acres (2 parcels) within the 6700-acre Will Rogers 
World Airport complex (new total--1,061 acres) and to expand the zone 
to include two new sites in the area: Proposed Site 12 (26 acres)--ICON 
Center Industrial Park, 300 East Arlington, Ada; and, Proposed Site 13 
(308 acres)--within the 401-acre Guthrie/Edmond Regional Airport, 520 
Airport Road, Guthrie. The proposed sites are owned by Robbie Sherrell 
and the City of Guthrie, respectively. The applicant is also requesting 
authority to remove the following sites from the zone project due to 
changed circumstances: South River Industrial Park (Site 5--292 acres); 
Continental Distribution Park (Site 6--42 acres); Kelley Pointe 
Industrial Park (Site 9--200 acres); and, Tower Industrial Park (Site 
11--21 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 April 10, 2006. Rebuttal 
comments in response to material submitted during the foregoing period 
may be submitted during the subsequent 15-day period (to April 25, 
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 U.S. Department of Commerce, Export Assistance 
Center, 301 NW 63rd Street, Suite 330, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73116.

    Dated: January 30, 2006.
Dennis Puccinelli,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 06-1224 Filed 2-8-06; 8:45 am]
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