[Federal Register Volume 74, Number 226 (Wednesday, November 25, 2009)]
[Notices]
[Pages 61657-61658]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E9-28267]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Docket 52-2009]


Foreign-Trade Zone 61--San Juan, Puerto Rico; Application for 
Expansion

    An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones (FTZ) 
Board (the Board) by the Puerto Rico Trade and Export Company, grantee 
of FTZ 61, requesting authority to expand its zone to include 
additional sites in the San Juan, Puerto Rico area, in and adjacent to 
the San Juan 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 November 17, 
2009.
    FTZ 61 was approved on October 20, 1980 (Board Order No. 165, 45 FR 
71408, 10/28/80) and expanded on September 28, 2007 (Board Order No. 
1528, 72 FR 56723, 10/04/07). The zone project currently consists of 
the following sites: Site 1 (244 acres) Parcel A (192 acres)--
International Trade Center Grounds, Highway 165, km. 2.4; Parcel B (23 
acres)--tract of undeveloped land, intersection of State Road 22 and 
State Road 28; Parcel C (12 acres)--tract of developed land, at Highway 
28 and Cano Avenue; Parcel D (5 acres)--Amelia Distribution Center, 
intersection of Highway 165 and Calle Amelia; Parcel E (5 acres)--
warehouse building, within the Centro Mercantil Internacional Complex, 
West Street, at the International Trade Center Grounds, Guaynabo; 
Parcel F (7 acres)--warehouse building (expires 11/1/11) located at 
Road 5, Km. 4.0, Barrio Palmas, Catano; Site 2 (11 acres)--
North Distribution Center, located at km. 1.1 on Highway 869, Catano; 
Site 3 (15 acres)--Catano Equipment and Storage Complex, intersection 
of Highway 165 and Las Palmas Avenue, Catano; Site 4 (2 acres)--Bayamon 
Logistics, Storage and Distribution Center, intersection of Calle C and 
Highway 28, Bayamon; Site 5 (3 acres)--Corujo Industrial Park, located 
at Road 866, Km. 1.7, Hato Tejas; Site 6 (4 acres)--warehouse 
facilities located on the north side of Highway 2, one mile east of 
Highway 165, Toa Baja; Site 7 (2 acres)--Baldorioty de Castro Warehouse 
and Distribution Center, located at Km. 10.3, Marginal de la Avenida de 
Baldorioty de Castro at the intersection of Mercedez Drive, Carolina; 
Site 8 (5 acres)--Manati chemical warehouse, intersection of Highways 
686 and 670, Manati; Site 9 (7 acres)--warehouse facilities located at 
km. 28.6 on Highway 1, Caguas; Site 10 (14 acres)--storage complex at 
Km. 3.9, Marginal de J.F. Kennedy Avenue at the intersection of Blay 
Street, San Juan; Site 11 (32 acres)--Mayaguez Regional Distribution 
Center, located at 201 Algarrobo Avenue, Mayaguez; Site 12 (307 acres, 
2 parcels)--Yabucoa Industrial Park, at the intersection of Highway 901 
and Highway 53, Yabucoa; and, Site 13 (3 acres)--warehouse facility, 
located at State Road 3, Km. 77.2, Barrio Abajo, Humacao.
    The applicant is requesting authority to expand Sites 1, 5 and 10 
to include additional acreage and to include 3 additional sites in the 
San Juan area:

--Expand Site 1 which will include temporary Site 1 Parcel F (7 acres) 
on a permanent basis (expires 11/01/11) and to restore to Site 1 Parcel 
B (19 acres) which had been removed for minor boundary modifications 
(new overall Site 1 total acreage-263 acres);
--Expand Site 5 to include an additional eight acres (new total-11 
acres) (within the 350-acre Corujo Industrial Park);
--Expand Site 10 to include an additional acre (new total-15 acres);
--Proposed Site 14 (6 acres)--Angora Industrial Park, Rd. 1, 
Km. 32.6, Bairoa Avenue, Caguas;
--Proposed Site 15 (9 acres)--Royal Industrial Park, Rd. 869, 
Km. 2.8, Barrio Palmas, Catano; and,

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--Proposed Site 16 (1 acre)--Benitez commercial complex, Rd. 
1, Km. 32.9, Bairoa Avenue, Caguas.

    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 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 on the application is invited from interested 
parties. Submissions (original and 3 copies) shall be addressed to the 
Board's Executive Secretary at the address listed below. The closing 
period for their receipt is January 25, 2010. Rebuttal comments in 
response to material submitted during the foregoing period may be 
submitted during the subsequent 15-day period (to February 8, 2010).
    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 Web site, which is accessible via http://www.trade.gov/ftz.
    For further information, contact Kathleen Boyce at [email protected] or (202) 482-1346.

    Dated: November 17, 2009.
Andrew McGilvray,
Executive Secretary.
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