[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 175 (Thursday, September 10, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Page 48470]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-24346]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Foreign-Trade Zones Board
[Docket 42-98]
Foreign-Trade Zone 202--Los Angeles, California Area Application
for Expansion
An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones (FTZ)
Board (the Board) by the Board of Harbor Commissioners of the City of
Los Angeles, grantee of FTZ 202, requesting authority to expand its
zone in the Los Angeles, California area, adjacent to the Los Angeles-
Long Beach Customs port of entry. The application was submitted
pursuant to the provisions of the FTZ Act, as amended (19 U.S.C. 81a-
81u), and the regulations of the Board (15 CFR Part 400). It was
formally filed on August 28, 1998.
FTZ 202 was approved on July 14, 1994 (Board Order 693, 59 FR
37464, 7/22/94) and expanded on August 26, 1996 (Board Order 842, 61 FR
46763, 9/5/96). The zone project currently consists of the following
sites: Site 1 (2,783 acres)--Port of Los Angeles Harbor complex, San
Pedro; Site 2 (3 acres)--within the Los Angeles International Airport
(LAX) complex; Site 3 (642 acres)--International Trade & Transportation
Center, Santa Fe Highway at 7th Standard Road in Kern County, adjacent
to the City of Bakersfield; Site 4 (47 acres)--within the 438-acre
Dominguez Technology Center south of the Artesia Freeway, between the
Harbor Freeway and I-710 in Rancho Dominguez; Site 5 (20 acres)--
Alameda Import/Export Center, located at the northeast corner of
Alameda and Bay Streets, Los Angeles; Site 6 (9 acres)--Western Sunset
Distribution Center, 2626 Vista Industria, Rancho Dominguez; Site 7
(101 acres)--Pacific Gateway Center, at the southwest corner of the San
Diego Freeway and Harbor Freeway Interchange, Los Angeles; and, Site 8
(6 acres)--Kintetsu Intermodal Warehouse, 1035/1130 Watson Center Road,
Carson.
The applicant is now requesting authority to expand existing Site 4
and to include 3 new sites (554 acres) in Los Angeles and Carson
(proposed Sites 9-11) as follows: Site 4--include 357 acres (new
total--404 acres) at the Dominguez Technology Center (owned by Carson
Dominguez Properties, L.P.) in Rancho Dominguez; proposed Site 9 (128
acres)--Harbor Gateway Center, 19901 South Normandie, Los Angeles,
owned by Boeing Realty Corporation; proposed Site 10 (319 acres)--
Watson Industrial Center South, 22010 South Wilmington Avenue, Carson,
owned by the Watson Land Company; and, proposed Site 11 (107 acres)--
Watson Corporate Center, 22010 South Wilmington Avenue, Carson, owned
by the Watson Land Company. Proposed Site 9 is located within the Los
Angeles Enterprise Zone. All of the proposed sites are located in or
near current redevelopment projects. The City and Port of Los Angeles
are developing the FTZ 202 project as an integral part of their overall
development activities. 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 November 9, 1998. Rebuttal comments in response to
material submitted during the foregoing period may be submitted during
the subsequent 15-day period (to November 24, 1998).
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, 350 S. Figueroa
Street, Los Angeles, CA 90071
Office of the Executive Secretary, Foreign-Trade Zones Board, Room
3716, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th & Pennsylvania Avenue, NW,
Washington, DC 20230
Dated: September 2, 1998.
Dennis Puccinelli,
Acting Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 98-24346 Filed 9-9-98; 8:45 am]
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