[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 202 (Friday, October 17, 2008)]
[Notices]
[Pages 61780-61781]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E8-24759]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Docket 58-2008]


Foreign-Trade Zone 163--Ponce, PR; Application for Expansion

    An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones (FTZ) 
Board (the Board) by CODEZOL, C.D., grantee of FTZ 163, requesting 
authority to expand its zone in the Ponce, Puerto Rico, area, adjacent 
to the Ponce 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 October 8, 2008.
    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), on June 9, 2005 (Board Order 1397, 70 FR 36117, 6/
22/05), on July 26, 2006 (Board Order 1467, 71 FR 44996, 8/8/06), and 
on November 9, 2006 (Board Order 1487, 71 FR 67098, 11/20/06).
    The zone project currently consists of the following sites in 
Puerto Rico: 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)--located at 
Mercedita Industrial Park at the intersection of Route PR-9 and Las 
Americas Highway, Ponce; Site 6 (86 acres)--Coto Laurel Industrial Park 
located at the southwest corner of the intersection of Highways PR-56 
and PR-52, Ponce; Site 7 (17 acres)--warehouse facility located at 
State Road No. 1, Km. 21.1, Guaynabo; Site 8 (5 acres)--warehouse 
facility located at 42 Salmon Street, Ponce; and, Site 9 (6 acres)--
warehouse facility located on PR Highway 2, at Km. 165.2, Hormigueros.
    The applicant is now requesting authority to expand the general-
purpose zone to include an additional site: Proposed Site 10 (6 
acres)--warehouse facility at Centro de Distribucion, Playa

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de Ponce, Building 7, Avenue de los Caballeros, Ponce. The site 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 
December 16, 2008. Rebuttal comments in response to material submitted 
during the foregoing period may be submitted during the subsequent 15-
day period (to December 31, 2008).
    A copy of the application and accompanying exhibits will be 
available for public inspection at each of the following locations: 
CODEZOL, C.D, Tourist Pier Offices, Avenida of the Caballeros, Ponce, 
Puerto Rico 00716-2009; 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: October 8, 2008.
Andrew McGilvray,
Executive Secretary.
 [FR Doc. E8-24759 Filed 10-16-08; 8:45 am]
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