[Federal Register Volume 74, Number 180 (Friday, September 18, 2009)]
[Notices]
[Pages 47920-47921]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E9-22495]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Docket 37-2009]


Foreign-Trade Zone 272 - Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania, Application 
for Expansion

    An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones Board 
(the Board) by the Lehigh Valley Economic Development Corporation, 
grantee of FTZ 272, requesting authority to expand FTZ 272 to include 
an additional site in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. 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 9, 2009.
    FTZ 272 was approved on April 5, 2007 (Board Order 1502, 72 FR 
18960, 4/16/07), and expanded on February 13, 2009 (Board Order 1605, 
74 FR 8903, 2/27/09). The zone currently consists of eight sites (1,927 
acres total): Site 1 (727 acres) -- Lehigh Valley Industrial Park VII, 
1805 East 4th Street, Bethlehem; Site 2 (96 acres) -- Arcadia East 
Industrial Park, intersection of Route 512 and Silver Crest Road, East 
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Township; Site 3 (83 acres) -- Arcadia West Industrial Park, 
intersection of I-78 and Route 863, Weisenberg Township; Site 4 (226 
acres) -- West Hills Business Center, intersection of I-78 and Route 
863, Weisenberg Township; Site 5 (399 acres) -- Boulder Business 
Center, intersection of Boulder Drive and Industrial Boulevard, 
Breinigsville (Upper Macungie Township); Site 6 (183 acres) -- Lehigh 
Valley West Corporate Center, intersection of Nestle Way and Schantz 
Road, Breinigsville (Upper Macungie Township); Site 7 (213 acres) -- 
within the LogistiCenter, 4950 Hanoverville Road, Bethlehem (Lower 
Nazareth Township); and, Site 8 (163 acres) -- Prologis 33 warehouse 
facility, 3819 and 3850 ProLogis Parkway, Northampton County.
    The applicant is requesting authority to expand the zone to include 
an additional site in Bethlehem (Northampton County): Proposed Site 9 
(442 acres) -- Majestic Bethlehem Center located at 3001 Commerce 
Center Boulevard. The site will provide 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, Camille Evans of the 
FTZ Staff is designated examiner to evaluate and analyze the facts and 
information presented in the application and case record and to report 
findings and recommendations 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 17, 2009. Rebuttal comments in response to material submitted 
during the foregoing period may be submitted during the subsequent 15-
day period to December 2, 2009.
    A copy of the application will be available for public inspection 
at the Office of the Executive Secretary, Foreign-Trade Zones Board, 
Room 2111, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue, NW, 
Washington, DC 20230-0002, and in the ``Reading Room'' section of the 
Board's website, which is accessible via www.trade.gov/ftz.
    For further information, contact Camille Evans at [email protected] or (202) 482-2350.

    Dated: September 9, 2009.
Andrew McGilvray,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. E9-22495 Filed 9-17-09; 8:45 am]
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