[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 206 (Tuesday, October 26, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Page 57626]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-27957]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Foreign-Trade Zones Board
[Docket 48-99]
Foreign-Trade Zone 137--Washington Dulles International Airport,
Virginia Area; Application for Expansion
An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones (FTZ)
Board (the Board) by Washington Dulles Foreign Trade Zone, Inc.,
grantee of FTZ 137 (Fairfax/Loudoun Counties, Virginia), requesting
authority to expand its zone to include a site in Gainesville (Prince
William County), Virginia, within the Washington, DC, Customs 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
October 14, 1999.
FTZ 137 was approved on April 17, 1987 (Board Order 350, 52 FR
13489, 4/23/87). The zone project currently consists of sites (392
acres) at and adjacent to the Washington Dulles International Airport
complex, Fairfax and Loudoun Counties: Site 1--within the airport
complex; Site 2--warehouse facility, 110 Terminal Drive, Sterling; and,
Site 3--near the intersection of Routes 606 and 621, Loudoun County.
Two applications are currently pending with the Board for two
additional sites in Virginia's Eastern Shore region (Doc. 44-98) and
three additional sites in the Winchester-Frederick County area (Doc.
46-99).
This application is requesting authority to expand the general-
purpose zone to include an additional site (171 acres) in Gainesville,
Virginia (Proposed Site 9): Proposed Site 9 (171 acres)--within the
435-acre Virginia Gateway Development, southwest quadrant of the I-66/
Rt. 29 interchange, Gainesville. The site is owned by Virginia Gateway
Associates L.P., an affiliate of The Peterson companies. No specific
manufacturing requests are being made at this time. Such requests would
be made to the Board on a case-by-case basis.
In accordance with the Board's regulations, a member of the FTZ
Staff has been designated examiner to investigate the application and
report to the Board.
Public comment on the application 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 December 27, 1999. Rebuttal comments in response
to material submitted during the foregoing period may be submitted
during the subsequent 15-day period (to January 10, 2000).
A copy of the application and accompanying exhibits will be
available for public inspection at each of the following locations:
Washington Dulles Foreign Trade Zone, Inc., 44701 Propeller Court,
Dulles, VA 20166
Office of the Executive Secretary, Foreign-Trade Zones Board, Room
3716, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th & Pennsylvania Avenue, NW,
Washington, DC 20230
Dated: October 15, 1999.
Dennis Puccinelli,
Acting Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 99-27957 Filed 10-25-99; 8:45 am]
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