[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 184 (Monday, September 22, 2008)]
[Notices]
[Page 54556]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E8-22105]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Docket 49-2008]


Foreign-Trade Zone 84 Houston, Texas, Application for Expansion

    An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones (FTZ) 
Board (the Board) by the Port of Houston Authority, grantee of FTZ 84, 
requesting authority to expand its zone in the Houston, Texas, area, 
adjacent to the Houston CBP 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 September 10, 2008.
    FTZ 84 was approved on July 15, 1983 (Board Order 214, 48 FR 34792, 
8/1/83). The zone was expanded on December 24, 1991 (Board Order 551, 
57 FR 42, 1/2/92), on December 23, 1993 (Board Order 670, 59 FR 61, 1/
3/94), on August 24, 2000 (Board Order 1115, 65 FR 54197, 9/7/00), on 
March 21, 2003 (Board Order 1271, 68 FR 15431, 3/31/03), and on May 14, 
2003 (Board Order 1277, 68 FR 27987, 5/22/03).
    The general-purpose zone currently consists of 16 sites (1,799 
acres) at port facilities, industrial parks and warehouse facilities in 
Houston and the Harris County area. The sites -- which are in Houston 
unless otherwise stated -- are as follows: Site 1 (421 acres)--Houston 
Ship Channel Turning Basin, Clinton Drive at Highway 610 East Loop; 
Site 2 (97 acres)--Houston Ship Channel (Bulk Materials Handling 
Plant), north bank between Greens Bayou and Penn City Road; Site 3 (99 
acres)--Barbours Cut Turning Basin, Highway 146 at Highway 225; Site 4 
(4 acres)--Cargoways Logistics (formerly Dynamic Warehousing and 
Trucking), 1201 Hahlo Street; Site 5 (8 acres)--Timco Scrap Processing 
(formerly Port Houston Storage Depot), 6747 Avenue W; Site 6 (73 
acres)--Odfjell Terminals (formerly Baytank (Houston), Inc.), 12211 
Port Road; Site 7 (126 acres)--Jacintoport Terminal, Houston Ship 
Channel,16398 Jacintoport Blvd.; Site 8 (162 acres)--Central Green 
Business Park,16638 Air Center Blvd.; Site 9 (72 acres)--Manchester 
Terminal Corporation, 10000 Manchester; Site 10 (14 acres)--13609 
Industrial Road, within the Greens Port Industrial Park along the 
Houston Ship Channel; Site 11 (269 acres)--Oiltanking, Inc.,15602 
Jacintoport Boulevard; Site 12 (146 acres)--Kinder Morgan Liquids 
Terminal LLC, Clinton Drive at Panther Creek and North Witter Street at 
Bayou Street; Site 13 (18 acres)--Exel Logistics, Inc., 8833 City Park 
Loop Street; Site 14 (22 acres)--George Bush Intercontinental Airport, 
Fuel Storage Road, Houston jet fuel storage and distribution system; 
Site 15 (196 acres)--Magellan Midstream Partners, liquid bulk facility, 
12901 American Petroleum Road, Galena Park, Harris County; and, Site 16 
(72 acres)--Katoen Natie Gulf Coast Warehousing Complex, Miller Road 
Cutoff and U.S. Highway 225, Harris County.
    The applicant is now requesting authority to expand the general-
purpose zone to include six additional sites (980 acres) in the Houston 
and Harris County area: Proposed Site 17 (172 acres total, 2 parcels)--
within the Highway 225 Industrial Development: Underwood Industrial 
Park (162 acres), located at 2820 East 13th Street, Deer Park, and 
Battleground Business Park (10 acres), located at the corner of Porter 
Road and Old Underwood Road, La Porte; Proposed Site 18 (106 acres)--
Bay Area Business Park, located at Red Bluff Road and Bay Area 
Boulevard, Pasadena; Proposed Site 19 (190 acres)--Republic 
Distribution Center, located on the corner of Red Bluff Road and Choate 
Road, Pasadena; Proposed Site 20 (299 acres)--Port Crossing Industrial 
Park, located along McCabe Road and State Highway 146, La Porte; 
Proposed Site 21 (67 acres)--Port of Houston Authority's Care Terminal, 
located at 16800 Peninsula Boulevard, Houston; and, Proposed Site 22 
(146 acres)--Port of Houston Authority's Beltway 8 Tract, located at 
the corner of East Belt Drive and Jacintoport Boulevard, Houston. The 
sites will provide public warehousing and distribution services to area 
businesses. No specific manufacturing authority is being requested at 
this time. Such requests would be made to the Board on a case-by-case 
basis.
    In accordance with the Board's regulations, Kathleen Boyce 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 
November 21, 2008. Rebuttal comments in response to material submitted 
during the foregoing period may be submitted during the subsequent 15-
day period to December 8, 2008.
    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 Export Assistance Center, 1919 Smith 
Street, Suite 1026, Houston, Texas 77002; and, the Office of the 
Executive Secretary, Foreign-Trade Zones Board, Room 2111, U.S. 
Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 
20230.
    For further information, contact Kathleen Boyce at 202-482-1346 or 
[email protected].

    Dated: September 10, 2008.
Andrew McGilvray,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. E8-22105 Filed 9-19-08; 8:45 am]
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