[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 108 (Wednesday, June 4, 2008)]
[Notices]
[Page 31812]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E8-12458]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

Docket 35-2008


Foreign-Trade Zone 147 - Reading, Pennsylvania, Application for 
Reorganization and Expansion

    An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones Board 
(the Board) by the Foreign-Trade Zone Corporation of Southern 
Pennsylvania, grantee of Foreign-Trade Zone 147, requesting authority 
to expand and reorganize its zone in the Reading, Pennsylvania area, 
adjacent to the Harrisburg Customs and Border Protection 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 
May 27, 2008.
    FTZ 147 was approved by the Board on June 28, 1988 (Board Order 
378; 53 FR 26094, 7/11/88). The zone was subsequently expanded on 
February 25, 1997 (Board Order 871) and November 3, 2005 (Board Order 
1417). FTZ 147 currently consists of 14 sites (4,794 acres) in south-
central Pennsylvania.
    The applicant is now requesting authority to reorganize and expand 
the general- purpose zone by deleting Site 4 Parcel A (595-acre Baker 
Refractories site) and Parcel C (37-acre Emons Bids Rail Yard property, 
York) and adding four new sites as follows: Proposed Site 16: (134 
acres) located at 1200 South Antrim Way, Greencastle, Franklin County; 
Proposed Site 17: (256 acres) United Business Park, 7810 Olde Scotland 
Road, Shippensburg; Proposed Site 18: (208 acres) Key Logistics Park, 
Centerville Road, Newville; and, Proposed Site 19: (292 acres) I-81 
Commerce Park, Walnut Bottom Road, Shippensburg, Cumberland County, 
Pennsylvania.
    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, Claudia Hausler of the 
FTZ Staff is designated examiner to investigate the application and 
report to the Board.
    Public comment 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 
August 4, 2008. Rebuttal comments in response to material submitted 
during the foregoing period may be submitted during the subsequent 15-
day period to August 18, 2008.
    A copy of the application and accompanying exhibits will be 
available for public inspection at each of the following locations:
    U.S. Export Assistance Center, 2 So. George Street, Cumberland 
House, Millersville, PA 17551-0302
    Office of the Executive Secretary, Foreign-Trade Zones Board, U.S. 
Department of Commerce, Room 2111, 1401 Constitution Avenue NW, 
Washington, DC 20230
    For further information contact Claudia Hausler at [email protected] or (202)482-1379.

    Dated: May 27, 2008.
Pierre V. Duy,
Acting Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. E8-12458 Filed 6-3-08; 8:45 am]
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