[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 183 (Wednesday, September 22, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Page 51291]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-24710]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Foreign-Trade Zones Board
[Docket 46-99]
Foreign-Trade Zone 137--Washington Dulles International Airport,
VA, 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 sites in the Winchester-
Frederick County, Virginia area, adjacent to 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 September 10, 1999.
FTZ 137 was approved on April 17, 1987 (Board Order 350, 52 FR
13489,
4/23/87). The zone project currently consists of the following sites
(392 acres): Site 1--within the Washington Dulles International Airport
complex, Fairfax and Loudoun Counties; Site 2--warehouse facility, 110
Terminal Drive, Sterling; and, Site 3--near the intersection of Routes
606 and 621, Loudoun County. An application is currently pending with
the Board for two additional sites in Virginia's Eastern Shore region
(Doc. 44-98).
This application is requesting authority to expand the general-
purpose zone to include 3 new sites (498 acres) within industrial parks
in the Winchester-Frederick County region of Virginia (Proposed Sites
6-8): Proposed Site 6 (183 acres, 6 parcels)--within the 330-acre Fort
Collier Industrial Park (owned primarily by the Fort Collier Group,
L.C.), U.S. Route 11, Winchester; Proposed Site 7 (160 acres)--airport
properties contiguous to the Winchester Regional Airport consisting of
three industrial parks: Parcel 1A (5 acres)--Pegasus Business Center
(owned by C.D. Adams & K.D. Adams), Airport Road, Winchester; Parcel 1B
(145 acres)--within the 219-acre Airport Business Center (owned by the
Adams Family Limited Partnership and Crum Electric Company), Airport
Road, Winchester; and, Parcel 2 (10 acres)--AeroCentre Business Park
(owned by North Frederick Realty, L.L.C.), east of U.S. Highway 522
South, Winchester; and, Proposed Site 8 (155 acres, 6 parcels)--within
the 236-acre Wrights Run complex, U.S. Route 522 and new Route 624
(Tasker Road), Winchester, consisting of two industrial parks: Parcels
1-4 and 6 (71 acres) are located within the Jouan Global Center (owned
by Wrights Run LP Properties (WRLP), Jouan Inc., Donald Rainville and
Hermitage Place L.L.C.); and, Parcel 5 (84 acres) within the Wrights
Run Industrial Park (owned by WRLP). All of the properties are located
within Frederick County, approximately 46 miles west of the Washington
Dulles International Airport. 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 22, 1999. Rebuttal comments in response
to material submitted during the foregoing period may be submitted
during the subsequent 15-day period (to December 6, 1999).
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: September 13, 1999.
Dennis Puccinelli,
Acting Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 99-24710 Filed 9-21-99; 8:45 am]
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