[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 70 (Monday, April 13, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Page 17983]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-9690]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Foreign-Trade Zones Board
[Docket 17-98]
Foreign-Trade Zone 39--Dallas/Fort Worth, TX; Application for
Expansion
An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones (FTZ)
Board (the Board) by the Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport Board,
grantee of FTZ 39, requesting authority to expand its zone in Dallas/
Fort Worth, Texas, within the Dallas/Fort Worth 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
April 2, 1998.
FTZ 39 was approved on August 17, 1978 (Board Order 133, 43 FR
37478, 8/23/78) and expanded on December 11, 1992 (Board Order 613, 57
FR 61046, 12/23/92) and December 27, 1994 (Board Order 724, 60 FR 2376,
1/9/95). The zone project currently consists of the following sites:
Site 1 (2,400 acres)--within the 18,000-acre Dallas/Fort Worth
International Airport complex; Site 2 (754 acres)--Southport Centre
Industrial Park, South Dallas; and, Site 3 (552 acres)--within the
1,100-acre Grayson County Airport complex, Grayson County.
The applicant is now requesting authority to expand the general-
purpose zone to include an additional site: Proposed Site 4 (644 acres,
3 parcels)--Railhead Fort Worth site, intersection of Loop 820 (the Jim
Wright Freeway) and Blue Mound Road (FM 156), Fort Worth. The site
consists primarily of a rail-served, master-planned facility with space
available for warehousing, distribution or manufacturing activity. The
site includes a rail transloading station and is owned by Meacham Rail
191 Limited Partnership, E-Systems and Burlington Northern Santa Fe
Railroad. 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 June 12, 1998. Rebuttal comments in response to
material submitted during the foregoing period may be submitted during
the subsequent 15-day period (to June 29, 1998).
A copy of the application and accompanying exhibits will be
available for public inspection at each of the following locations:
Department of Commerce, Export Assistance Center, 2050 N. Stemmons
Freeway, Suite 170, Dallas, TX 75207.
Office of the Executive Secretary, Foreign-Trade Zones Board, Room
3716, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th & Pennsylvania Avenue NW,
Washington, DC 20230.
Dated: April 3, 1998.
Dennis Puccinelli,
Acting Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 98-9690 Filed 4-10-98; 8:45 am]
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