[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 70 (Monday, April 13, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 17982-17983]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-9691]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Foreign-Trade Zones Board
[Docket 18-98]
Foreign-Trade Zone 7--Mayaguez, Puerto Rico Area Application for
Expansion
An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones (FTZ)
Board (the Board) by the Puerto Rico Industrial Development Company
(PRIDCO), a governmental instrumentality of the Commonwealth of Puerto
Rico and grantee of Foreign-Trade Zone 7, requesting authority to
expand FTZ 7 to include additional areas of the PRIDCO Industrial Park
System, located adjacent to Puerto Rico Customs ports 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 7 was approved on June 27, 1960 (Board Order 50, 25 FR 6311, 7/
2/60) and expanded on June 28, 1968 (Board Order 76, 33 FR 10029, 7/12/
68) and November 16, 1972 (Board Order 91, 37 FR 24853, 11/22/72). The
general-purpose zone currently consists of an industrial park site (44
acres) located in Mayaguez and owned by PRIDCO (part of the PRIDCO
Industrial Park System).
The applicant, in a major revision to its zone plan, now requests
authority to expand the general-purpose zone to include a major portion
(4,500 acres; 18 mil. sq. ft.) of the PRIDCO Industrial Park System,
which is owned by the Commonwealth through PRIDCO and operated and
managed by PRIDCO as a key element of the government of Puerto Rico's
economic development efforts. The applicant seeks FTZ status for all
five of the industrial park system's sectors, which are located
throughout
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Puerto Rico. Each of the sites consists of a number of parcels covering
PRIDCO's available industrial park facilities (as described in
Application Supplement A). 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, Plaza Torre, 525 F.D.
Roosevelt Avenue, Suite 905, San Juan, PR 00918.
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. 98-9691 Filed 4-10-98; 8:45 am]
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