[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 157 (Monday, August 15, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Page 50455]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-20729]


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 DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Docket 52-2011]


Foreign-Trade Zone 163--Ponce, Puerto Rico Application for 
Expansion

    An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones Board 
(the Board) by CODEZOL, C.D., grantee of FTZ 163, requesting authority 
to expand the zone in Caguas and Ponce, Puerto Rico. 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 August 9, 2011.
    FTZ 163 was established by the Board on October 18, 1989 (Board 
Order 443, 54 FR 46097, 11/1/89), 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), 
on June 26, 2009 (Board Order 1631, 74 FR 34306-34307, 7/15/09), and on 
July 8, 2010 (Board Orders 1692 and 1693, 75 FR 41801, 7/19/10).
    The zone project currently consists of fifteen sites (917.70 acres 
total) in Puerto Rico: Site 1 (269 acres, 5 parcels)--within the Port 
of the Americas located at the Port of Ponce, at 3309 Avenida Santiago 
de los Caballeros, at Percon Industrial Park, at Phase 3A 100% and at 
Bayland, Ponce; Site 2 (183.8 acres, 5 parcels)--Peerless Oil & 
Chemicals, Inc., petroleum terminal facilities in Pe[ntilde]uelas and 
Guaynilla; Site 3 (3 acres)--Hato Rey Distribution Center, located at 
Angel Buonoma Street 361 and 71, San Juan; Site 4 (14 
acres)--Centro Automatriz Santa Rosa, Inc., State Road No. 3, Km 140.1, 
Guayama; Site 5 (256 acres)--Mercedita Industrial Park, Rt. PR-9 and 
Las Americas Highway, Ponce; Site 6 (86 acres)--Coto Laurel Industrial 
Park, Highways PR-56 and PR-52, Ponce; Site 7 (17.2 acres)--Cesar 
Castillo warehouse, State Road No. 1, Km 21.1, Guaynabo; Site 8 (5 
acres)--Ayala Warehouse, Inc., 42 Salmon Street, Ponce; Site 9 (6 
acres, sunset 11/1/2011)--warehouse facility, PR Highway 2, Km 165.2, 
Hormigueros; Site 10 (5.83 acres, sunset 6/30/2014)--Colomer & Suarez, 
Inc., Centro de Distribucion Playa de Ponce, Building 7, Avenida 
Santiago de los Caballeros, Ponce; Site 11 (52 acres, sunset 6/30/
2015)--ProCaribe, Road 385, Km 5.4, Bo. Tallaboa, Pe[ntilde]uelas; Site 
12 (5.97 acres, sunset 6/30/2015)--Yaucono Industrial Park, 2822 Las 
Americas Avenue, Corner Cuatro Calles, Ponce; Site 13 (10 acres)--Rio 
Piedras Distribution Center, Quebrada Arena Industrial Park, PR Road 
1, Km 26.0, San Juan; Site 14 (2.1 acres, expires 5/31/2012)--
Caribe Rx Industrial Park, PR Road 1, Km 39.9, Bo. Turabo, 
Caguas; and Site 15 (1.8 acres, expires 5/31/2012)--Ortiz Auto 
Distributors Industrial Park, Baiora Industrial Subdivision Lot F, Road 
189, Km 2.0, Caguas.
    The applicant is requesting authority to expand the zone to include 
existing Sites 14 and 15 on a permanent basis and to include an 
additional site: Proposed Site 16 (5.66 acres)--warehouse facilities of 
Destiler[iacute]a Serrall[eacute]s, Inc., located within Reparto 
Industrial Reparada, Calle B Lots 5 and 6, Barrio Canas, Playa de 
Ponce, Ponce. The sites will provide public warehouse 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 
October 14, 2011. Rebuttal comments in response to material submitted 
during the foregoing period may be submitted during the subsequent 15-
day period to October 31, 2011.
    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 Camille Evans at 
[email protected] or (202) 482-2350.

    Dated: August 9, 2011.
Andrew McGilvray,
Executive Secretary.
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