[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 51 (Wednesday, March 17, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Pages 12730-12731]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-5842]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Docket 17-2010]


Foreign-Trade Zone 163--Ponce, Puerto Rico; 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 to include an additional site in the 
Ponce, Puerto Rico area, within 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 
March 8, 2010.
    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), on 
November 9, 2006 (Board Order 1487, 71 FR 67098, 11/20/06), and on June 
26, 2009 (Board Order 1631, 74 FR 34306, 7/15/09).
    The zone project currently consists of the following sites in 
Puerto Rico: Site 1 (106 acres)--within the Port of Ponce area, 
including a parcel (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; Site 9 (6 acres)--
warehouse facility located on PR Highway 2, at Km.165.2, Hormigueros; 
and, Site 10 (6 acres)--warehouse facility at 1 Flamboyances 
Avenue, Road 506 and Rt.14, Coto Laurel Ward, Ponce. An application is 
pending as the applicant has requested authority (74 FR 62747, 12/01/
09) to expand Site 1 to include 3 additional parcels and to add Site 
11.
    The applicant is now requesting authority to include the following 
site: Proposed Site 12 (6 acres)--Yaucono Industrial Park, 2822 Las 
Americas Ave., 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 evaluate

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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 
May 17, 2010. Rebuttal comments in response to material submitted 
during the foregoing period may be submitted during the subsequent 15-
day period (to June 1, 2010).
    A copy of the application and accompanying exhibits 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: March 8, 2010.
Andrew McGilvray,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2010-5842 Filed 3-16-10; 8:45 am]
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