[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 216 (Wednesday, November 6, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Page 57383]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-28447]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Foreign-Trade Zones Board
[Docket 79-96]
Foreign-Trade Zone 81; Portsmouth, New Hampshire; Application for
Expansion (Pease International Tradeport)
An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones (FTZ)
Board (the Board) by the New Hampshire State Port Authority, grantee of
FTZ 81, requesting authority to expand FTZ 81 to include an additional
site in Portsmouth, within the Portsmouth 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 23, 1996.
FTZ 81 was approved on January 20, 1983 (Board Order 207, 48 FR
4308, 1/31/83) and expanded on April 12, 1985 (Board Order 302, 50 FR
15948, 4/23/85). The general-purpose zone currently consists of four
sites: Site 1 (10 acres)--within the Port Authority's deep water port
facility at 555 Market Street on Portsmouth Harbor; Site 2 (175
acres)--Portsmouth Industrial Park on Lafayette Road, Portsmouth; Site
3 (54 acres)--Crosby Industrial Park on Crosby Road, Dover; and, Site 4
(1,469 acres)--industrial/commercial complex known as the Old Grenier
Air Force Base, Manchester.
The applicant is now requesting authority to further expand the
general-purpose zone to include an additional site (proposed Site 5--
2,095 acres)--at the Pease International Tradeport, formerly the Pease
Air Force Base, 601 Spaulding Turnpike, Portsmouth. The development
agency for the project is the Pease Development Authority. Firms will
be able to utilize zone services in an industrial park environment
which would include activities such as warehousing/distribution,
testing and processing of industrial machinery, research in high
technology fields, and airport related functions. 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 January 6, 1997. Rebuttal comments in response to
material submitted during the foregoing period may be submitted during
the subsequent 15-day period (to January 21, 1997).
A copy of the application and accompanying exhibits will be
available for public inspection at each of the following locations:
U.S. Department of Commerce, Export Assistance Center, 601 Spaulding
Turnpike, Suite 29, Portsmouth, NH 03801
Office of the Executive Secretary, Foreign-Trade Zones Board, Room
3716, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th and Pennsylvania Avenue, NW.,
Washington, DC 20230
Dated: October 28, 1996.
John J. Da Ponte, Jr.,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 96-28447 Filed 11-5-96; 8:45 am]
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