[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 118 (Tuesday, June 19, 2018)]
[Notices]
[Pages 28411-28412]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2018-13133]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[B-38-2018]


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

    An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones (FTZ) 
Board by CODEZOL, C.D., grantee of FTZ 163, requesting authority to 
expand FTZ 163 to include a site in 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 FTZ 
Board (15 CFR part 400). It was formally docketed on June 13, 2018.
    FTZ 163 was established by the Board on October 18, 1989 (Board 
Order 443, 54 FR 46097, November 1, 1989), and expanded on April 18, 
2000 (Board Order 1091, 65 FR 24676, April 27, 2000), on June 9, 2005 
(Board Order 1397, 70 FR 36117, June 22, 2005), on July 26, 2006 (Board 
Order 1467, 71 FR 44996, August 8, 2006), on November 9, 2006 (Board 
Order 1487, 71 FR 67098, November 20, 2006), on June 26, 2009 (Board 
Order 1631, 74 FR 34306-34307, July 15, 2009), on July 8, 2010 (Board 
Orders 1692 and 1693, 75 FR 41801, July 19, 2010), and on May 24, 2012 
(Board Order 1830, 77 FR 32929, June 4, 2012).
    The zone project currently consists of the following sites in 
Puerto Rico: Site

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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 10 (5.83 acres)--Colomer & Suarez, Inc., 
Centro de Distribucion Playa de Ponce, Building 7, Avenida Santiago de 
los Caballeros, Ponce; Site 11 (52 acres)--ProCaribe, Road 385, Km 5.4, 
Bo. Tallaboa, Pe[ntilde]uelas; Site 12 (5.97 acres)--Yaucono Industrial 
Park, 2822 Las Americas Avenue, Corner Cuatro Calles, Ponce; and, Site 
13 (10 acres)--Rio Piedras Distribution Center, Quebrada Arena 
Industrial Park, PR Road #1, Km 26.0, San Juan. (Note: Sites 9, 14, 15 
and 16 have expired and the site numbers will not be reused.)
    The applicant is requesting authority to expand the zone to include 
a site in Ponce: Proposed Site 17 (29.184 acres)--Ponce Regional 
Distribution Center, 3199 Ave. Santiago de los Caballeros, Ponce. No 
authorization for production activity is being requested at this time. 
Such requests would be made to the FTZ Board on a case-by-case basis.
    In accordance with the FTZ 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 FTZ Board.
    Public comment is invited from interested parties. Submissions 
shall be addressed to the FTZ Board's Executive Secretary at the 
address below. The closing period for their receipt is August 20, 2018. 
Rebuttal comments in response to material submitted during the 
foregoing period may be submitted during the subsequent 15-day period 
to September 4, 2018.
    A copy of the application will be available for public inspection 
at the Office of the Executive Secretary, Foreign-Trade Zones Board, 
Room 21013, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue NW, 
Washington, DC 20230-0002, and in the ``Reading Room'' section of the 
FTZ Board's website, which is accessible via www.trade.gov/ftz.
    For further information, contact Camille Evans at 
[email protected] or (202) 482-2350.

    Dated: June 13, 2018.
Andrew McGilvray,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2018-13133 Filed 6-18-18; 8:45 am]
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