[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 227 (Friday, November 25, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Pages 72673-72674]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-30392]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Docket 75-2011]


Foreign-Trade Zone 33--Pittsburgh, PA; Application for 
Reorganization/Expansion

    An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones (FTZ) 
Board (the Board) by the Regional Industrial Development Corporation of 
Southwestern Pennsylvania, grantee of FTZ 33, requesting authority to 
reorganize and expand its zone in the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, area, 
adjacent to the Pittsburgh 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 16, 2011.

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    FTZ 33 was approved by the Board on November 9, 1977 (Board Order 
124, 42 FR 59398, 11/17/77) and expanded on March 16, 1981 (Board Order 
172, 46 FR 18063, 3/23/81), on May 14, 1998 (Board Order 981, 63 FR 
29179, 5/28/98) and on February 23, 2010 (Board Order 1667, 75 FR 
13488-13489, 3/22/10).
    The current zone project includes the following sites in the 
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania area: Site 1 (55 acres)--within the 500-acre 
RIDC Park West, Park West Drive, Findlay Township, Allegheny County; 
Site 2 (5,352 acres)--within the 10,000-acre Pittsburgh International 
Airport complex (includes an aviation fuel depot), Pittsburgh; Site 3 
(140 acres)--Leetsdale Industrial Park, First and Center Avenues, 
Leetsdale; Site 4 (60 acres, 3 parcels)--located at 115 & 400 Hunt 
Valley Road within the Westmoreland Business and Research Park in Upper 
Burrell and Washington Townships, Westmoreland County; Site 5 (15 
acres)--warehouse facilities located at 154 Keystone Drive, New Castle; 
Site 6 (73 acres, 10 parcels)--warehouse facilities within the 240-acre 
City Center Duquesne property, located at South Linden Street, 
Duquesne, Allegheny County; Site 7 (65 acres, 13 parcels)--within the 
135-acre Industrial Center of McKeesport, 200 Center Street, 
McKeesport, Allegheny County; Site 8 (67 acres, 9 parcels)--within the 
925-acre Thorn Hill Industrial Park, 119-151 Commonwealth Drive, 
Warrendale, Butler & Allegheny Counties; Site 9 (13 acres, 1 parcel)--
Lawrenceville Technology Center, Hatfield & 45th Street, Lawrenceville, 
Allegheny County; Site 10 (17 acres, 5 parcels)--within the 600-acre 
Allegheny County Industrial Park, 560-570 Alpha Drive, O'Hara Township, 
Allegheny County; Site 11 (38 acres, 7 parcels)--within the 92-acre 
Keystone Commons, 200-700 Braddock Avenue, Turtle Creek, Allegheny 
County; Site 12 (53 acres, 2 parcels)--South Hills Industrial Park, 
1200 Lebanon Road, West Mifflin, Allegheny County; Site 13 (737 acres, 
2 parcels)--West Port Industrial Park, PA Route 576 & Burgettstown, 
Imperial, Allegheny County; Site 14 (74 acres, 1 parcel)--Hopewell 
Business & Industrial Park, Gringo-Clinton Road & PA Rt. 151, 
Aliquippa, Beaver County; Site 15 (222 acres)--within the Westgate 
Business Park, PA Rt. 18 & Eastwood Road, Homewood, Beaver County; Site 
16 (111 acres, 9 parcels)--within the 372-acre Aliquippa Industrial 
Park, 101-601 Steel Street, Aliquippa, Beaver County; and, Site 17 (80 
acres, 10 parcels)--Ambridge Regional Center, 2301 Duss Avenue, 
Ambridge, Beaver County.
    The applicant is now requesting authority to reorganize and expand 
the zone project as described below. The proposal includes both 
additions and deletions with an overall increase in total zone space: 
(1) Modify Site 1 by removing 9 acres due to changed circumstances (new 
site acreage--45 acres); (2) modify Site 3 by removing 15 acres (new 
site acreage--125 acres); (3) modify and expand Site 4 by removing 24 
acres and adding 23 acres (new site acreage--59 acres); (4) modify Site 
8 by deleting 29 acres (new site acreage--38 acres); (5) modify and 
expand Site 10 by removing 4 acres and adding 6 acres (new site 
acreage--19 acres); (6) modify Site 13 by deleting 39 acres (new site 
acreage--698 acres); (7) modify Site 14 by deleting 6.5 acres (new site 
acreage--68 acres); and, (8) modify Site 16 by deleting 16 acres (new 
site acreage--95 acres). In addition, a new site is proposed as 
follows: Site 18 (336 acres)--RIDC Westmoreland, 1001 Technology Drive, 
Mt. Pleasant, Pennsylvania. No specific manufacturing authority is 
being requested at this time. Such requests would be made 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 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 
January 24, 2012. Rebuttal comments in response to material submitted 
during the foregoing period may be submitted during the subsequent 15-
day period to February 8, 2012.
    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, 2011.
Andrew McGilvray,
Executive Secretary.
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