[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 248 (Tuesday, December 27, 2011)]
[Notices]
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From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-33180]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Docket 83-2011]


Foreign-Trade Zone 44--Morris County, NJ; Application for 
Expansion

    An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones (FTZ) 
Board (the Board) by the New Jersey Department of State, grantee of FTZ 
44, requesting authority to expand its zone in the Morris County, New 
Jersey area, within/adjacent to the New York/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 20, 2011.
    FTZ 44 was approved by the Board on October 19, 1978 (Board Order 
139, 43 FR 50234, 10/27/78), and expanded on May 29, 2001 (Board Order 
1168, 66 FR 31611-31612, 06/12/01), and on April 28, 2008 (Board Order 
1558, 73 FR 24940, 05/06/08).
    The current zone project includes the following sites: Site 1 (80 
acres within the 650-acre complex)--International Trade Center, 300 
Waterloo Valley, Mount Olive; Site 2 (307 acres)--Rockefeller Cranbury 
Industrial Park, Half Acre Rd. and north of Cranbury Station Rd., 
Cranbury Township; Site 3 (177 acres, sunset 04/30/13)--Central 
Crossing Business Park, Bordentown-Hedding Rd., Bordentown; Site 4 (57 
acres, sunset 04/30/13)--Old York Office Park, Old York Rd., 
Bordentown; Site 5 (40 acres, sunset 04/30/15)--Rockefeller Group 
Foreign Trade Zone Meadowlands, County Rd., Jersey City; and, Site 6 
(275 acres, sunset 04/30/13)--Norfolk Southern Rail Yard, County Rd., 
Jersey City and Secaucus.
    The applicant is now requesting authority to expand the zone to 
include the following site: Proposed Site 7 (20 acres)--warehouse 
facility, 700 Bartley Chester Road, Flanders (Morris 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 27, 2012. Rebuttal comments in response to material submitted 
during the foregoing period may be submitted during the subsequent 15-
day period to March 12, 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 20, 2011.
Andrew McGilvray,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2011-33180 Filed 12-23-11; 8:45 am]
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