[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 240 (Wednesday, December 14, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Pages 77769-77770]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-32090]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Docket 78-2011]


Foreign-Trade Zone 49--Newark/Elizabeth, NJ; Application for 
Expansion

    An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones (FTZ) 
Board (the Board) by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, 
grantee of FTZ 49, requesting authority to expand its zone in the 
Newark/Elizabeth, New Jersey, area, within the New York/

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Newark 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 December 7, 2011.
    FTZ 49 was approved by the Board on April 6, 1979 (Board Order 146, 
44 FR 22502, 4/16/79) and expanded on May 26, 1983 (Board Order 211, 48 
FR 24958, 6/3/83), on October 23, 1987 (Board Order 365, 52 FR 41599, 
10/29/87), on April 19, 1990 (Board Order 470, 55 FR 17478, 4/25/90), 
on December 15, 1999 (Board Order 1067, 64 FR 72462-72643, 12/28/99), 
on April 14, 2006 (71 FR 23895, 4/25/06), on February 28, 2007 (Board 
Order 1504, 72 FR 10642-10643, 3/9/07), and on July 16, 2009 (Board 
Order 1634, 74 FR 37688-37689, 7/29/09).
    The current zone project includes the following sites in the 
Newark/Elizabeth area: Site 1 (total--2,121 acres)--Port Newark/
Elizabeth Port Authority Marine Terminal (2,075 acres), a parcel (23 
acres) located at 888 Doremus Avenue, Newark, a parcel (6 acres) 
located at 580 Division Street, Elizabeth, and a parcel (17 acres) 
located at 251-259 Kapowski Road, Elizabeth; Site 2 (64 acres)--Global 
Terminal and Container Services facility (41 acres) and adjacent Jersey 
Distribution Services facility (23 acres) Jersey City/Bayonne; Site 3 
(124 acres)--Port Authority Industrial Park, adjacent to the Port 
Newark/Elizabeth Port Authority Marine Terminal; Site 4 (198 acres)--
Port Authority Auto Marine Terminal (145 acres) and adjacent 53-acre 
Greenville Industrial Park on Upper New York Bay's Port Jersey Channel 
in Bayonne and Jersey City; Site 5 (40 acres)--Newark International 
Airport jet fuel storage and distribution system in the Cities of 
Newark and Elizabeth (Union and Essex Counties); Site 6 (407 acres)--
within an industrial park located at 100 Central Avenue, Kearny; Site 7 
(114 acres, sunset 3/31/14)--within the I-Port 12 industrial park, 
located at exit 12 of the NJ Turnpike, Carteret; Site 8 (176 acres, 
sunset 3/31/14)--within the I-Port 440 industrial park, located east of 
State St. and north of the Outer Bridge Crossing, Perth Amboy; Site 9 
(317 acres, sunset 3/31/14)--Port Reading Business Park located on Port 
Reading Avenue, Woodbridge; Site 10 (73 acres, sunset 3/31/14)--Port 
Elizabeth Business Park located at 10 North Avenue East, Elizabeth; 
Site 11 (379 acres, sunset 7/31/14)--Heller Industrial Park located at 
205 Mill Road, Edison; and, Site 12 (23 acres, sunset 7/31/14)--located 
at 400, 440, 490 Heller Park Court and 1 Industrial Road, South 
Brunswick.
    The applicant is now requesting authority to expand the zone to 
include the following site: Proposed Site 13 (546 acres)--Raritan 
Center Business Park, Woodbridge Avenue & Raritan Center Parkway, 
Townships of Edison and Woodbridge, Middlesex County. 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 
February 13, 2012. Rebuttal comments in response to material submitted 
during the foregoing period may be submitted during the subsequent 15-
day period to February 27, 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: December 7, 2011.
Andrew McGilvray,
Executive Secretary.
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