[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 69 (Tuesday, April 11, 2006)]
[Notices]
[Pages 18276-18277]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E6-5334]


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 DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Docket 10-2006]


Foreign-Trade Zone 163--Ponce, Puerto Rico Area, Application for 
Expansion

    An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones Board 
(the Board) by Codezol, C.D., grantee of FTZ 163, requesting authority 
to expand FTZ 163, in the Hormigueros, Puerto Rico area, adjacent to 
the Ponce 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 April 3, 2006.
    FTZ 163 was approved on October 18, 1989 (Board Order 443, 54 FR 
46097, 11/01/89) and expanded on April 18, 2000 (Board Order 1091, 65 
FR 24676, 4/27/00) and April 25, 2005 (Board Order 1397, 70 FR 36117, 
6/22/05). The zone project currently consists of the following sites in 
the Ponce, Puerto Rico, area: Site 1 (106 acres)--within the Port of 
Ponce area, including a site (11 acres) located at 3309 Avenida 
Santiago de Los Caballeros, Ponce; Site 2 (191 acres, 5 parcels)--
Peerless Oil & Chemicals, Inc., Petroleum Terminal Facilities located 
at Rt. 127, Km. 17.1, Penuelas; Site 3 (13 acres, 2 parcels)--Rio 
Piedras Distribution Center located within the central portion of the 
Quebrada Arena Industrial Park, and the Hato Rey Distribution Center 
located within the northeastern portion of the Tres Monjitas Industrial 
Park, San Juan; Site 4 (14 acres)--warehouse facility located at State 
Road No. 3, Km. 1401, Guayama; Site 5 (256 acres, 34 parcels)--
Mercedita Industrial Park

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located at the intersection of Route PR-9 and Las Americas Highway, 
Ponce; and Site 6 (86 acres)--Coto Laurel Industrial Park located at 
the southwest corner of the intersection of Highways PR-56 and PR-52, 
Ponce.
    An application is pending with the FTZ Board to expand FTZ 163 (FTZ 
Docket 67-2005) to include a site at Guaynabo, Puerto Rico. The 
proposed site consists of 17 acres and is located at State Road No. 1, 
Km 21.1 in Guaynabo.
    The applicant is requesting authority to expand the zone to include 
an additional site (6 acres) for a warehouse facility in Hormigueros, 
some 41 miles west of Ponce: Proposed Site 8 (6 acres)--located on PR 
Highway 2, at Km.165.2, Hormigueros. The site is owned by Jose 
A. Lugo Lugo. 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 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 U.S. Postal Service: Foreign-Trade Zones Board, 
U.S. Department of Commerce, FCB-4100W, 1401 Constitution Ave., NW, 
Washington, DC 20230.
    The closing period for their receipt is June 12, 2006. Rebuttal 
comments in response to material submitted during the foregoing period 
may be submitted during the subsequent 15-day period (to June 26, 
2006).
    A copy of the application will be available for public inspection 
at the Office of the Foreign-Trade Zones Board's Executive Secretary at 
address No. 1 listed above and Codezol, C.D., 3309 Avenida Santiago de 
los Caballeros, Ponce, Puerto Rico 00734.

    Dated: April 4, 2006.
Dennis Puccinelli,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. E6-5334 Filed 4-10-06; 8:45 am]
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