[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 220 (Wednesday, November 15, 2006)]
[Notices]
[Pages 66499-66500]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E6-19301]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

Docket 42-2006


Foreign-Trade Zone 61 - San Juan, Puerto RicoApplication for 
Expansion

    An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones Board 
(the Board) by the Puerto Rico Trade and Export Company, grantee of FTZ 
61, requesting authority to expand FTZ 61 in the San Juan, Puerto Rico, 
area, adjacent to the San Juan 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, 2006.
    FTZ 61 was approved on October 20, 1980 (Board Order No. 165, 45 FR 
71408, 10/28/80). The zone project currently consists of the following 
sites: Site 1 (60 acres)-located within the 203-acre International 
Trade Center, at Highway 165, km. 2.4, Guaynabo;

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Temporary Site 2 (3 acres, 117,270 sq. ft.)-warehouse facilities within 
the Centro Mercantil Internacional (CMI) complex, West Street, Guaynabo 
(expires 1/31/07); Temporary Site 3 (14 acres)-warehouse facilities, 
located at Highway 22 and J.F. Kennedy Avenue, km. 3.9, San Juan 
(expires 11/1/08); and, Temporary Site 4 (5 acres)-North Distribution 
Center (Able Sales warehouse), located at PR Highway 869, km.1.1, 
Catano (expires 3/1/07).
    The applicant is requesting authority to expand Site 1 to include 
additional acreage and to include 11 additional sites in the San Juan 
area: Expand Site 1 to include an additional 184 acres in Guaynabo-
Parcel A (180 acres)-International Trade Center Grounds, Highway 165, 
km. 2.4 (which will include the existing 60-acre site); Parcel B (42 
acres)-tract of undeveloped land, intersection of State Road 22 and 
State Road 28; Parcel C (12 acres)-tract of developed land, at Highway 
28 and Cano Avenue; Parcel D (5acres)-Amelia Distribution Center, 
intersection of Highway 165 and Calle Amelia; Parcel E (5 acres)-
warehouse building, within the Centro Mercantil Internacional Complex, 
West Street, at the International Trade Center Grounds (which will 
include Temporary Site 2 on a permanent basis) (new total-244 acres); 
Proposed Site 2 (11 acres)-North Distribution Center, located at km. 
1.1 on Highway 869, Cata o (which will include Temporary Site 4 on a 
permanent basis); Proposed Site 3 (15 acres)-Cata o Equipment and 
Storage Complex, intersection of Highway 165 and Las Palmas Avenue, 
Catano; Proposed Site 4 (2 acres)-Bayamon Logistics, Storage and 
Distribution Center, intersection of Calle C and Highway 28, Bayamon; 
Proposed Site 5 (3 acres)-Corujo Industrial Park, located at Road 866, 
Km. 1.7, Hato Tejas; Proposed Site 6 (4 acres)-warehouse facilities 
located on the north side of Highway 2, one mile east of Highway 165, 
Toa Baja; Proposed Site 7 (2 acres)-Baldioroty de Castro Warehouse and 
Distribution Center, located at intersection of km 10.3, Marginal de la 
Avenida de Baldioroty de Castro, Carolina; Proposed Site 8 (5 acres)-
Manati chemical warehouse, intersection of Highways 686 and 670, 
Manati; Proposed Site 9 (7 acres)-warehouse facilities located at km. 
28.6 on Highway 1, Caguas; Proposed Site 10 (14 acres)-storage complex 
at J.F. Kennedy Avenue and km 3.9, San Juan (which will include 
Temporary Site 3 on a permanent basis); Proposed Site 11 (32 acres)-
Mayaguez Regional Distribution Center, located at 201 Algarrobo Avenue, 
Mayaguez; and, Proposed Site 12 (310 acres, 2 parcels)-Yabucoa 
Industrial Park, at the intersection of Highway 901 and Highway 53, 
Yabucoa. 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 the address below. The closing period 
for their receipt is January 16, 2007.
    Rebuttal comments in response to material submitted during the 
foregoing period may be submitted during the subsequent 15-day period 
(to January 29, 2007).
    A copy of the application and accompanying exhibits will be 
available for public inspection at each of the following locations: 
U.S. Department of Commerce, 420 Ponce de Leon Avenue, Midtown Bldg., 
10th Fl., San Juan, Puerto Rico 00918; and, Office of the Executive 
Secretary, Foreign-Trade Zones Board, Room 1115, U.S. Department of 
Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20230.

    Dated: November 3, 2006.
Pierre V. Duy,
Acting Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. E6-19301 Filed 11-14-06; 8:45 am]
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