[Federal Register Volume 74, Number 9 (Wednesday, January 14, 2009)]
[Notices]
[Page 2046]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E9-621]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Docket 73-2008]


Foreign-Trade Zone 123--Denver, Colorado, Application for 
Expansion

    An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones Board 
(the Board) by the City and County of Denver, Colorado, grantee of 
Foreign-Trade Zone 123, requesting authority to expand its zone to 
include the jet fuel storage and distribution facilities (79 acres) of 
the Denver International Airport within the Denver 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 December 24, 2008.
    FTZ 123 was approved by the Board on August 16, 1985 (Board Order 
311, 50 FR 34729, 8/27/85) and expanded on April 10, 2007 (Board Order 
1509, 72 FR 19879-19880, 4/20/07). The general-purpose zone currently 
consists of three sites in the Denver, Colorado area: Site 1: (6 acres, 
200,000 sq. ft.) located at 11075 East 40th Avenue, Denver; Site 2: (7 
acres, 116,000 sq. ft.) located at the South Air Cargo development area 
along East 75th Avenue within the Denver International Airport; and, 
Site 3: (766 acres) located within the Great Western Industrial Park 
bordered by Eastman Park Drive and County Road 23, Windsor.
    The applicant is now requesting authority to expand the general- 
purpose zone to include the jet fuel storage and distribution 
facilities (79 acres) within the Denver International Airport. The new 
site will be designated as Site 4. The site is owned by the City and 
County of Denver and leased to Aircraft Service International Inc., who 
will be the operator.
    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 
March 16, 2009. Rebuttal comments in response to material submitted 
during the foregoing period may be submitted during the subsequent 15-
day period (to March 30, 2009).
    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, 1625 
Broadway, Suite 680, Denver, CO 80202
    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: December 29, 2008.
Andrew McGilvray,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. E9-621 Filed 1-13-09; 8:45 am]
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