[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 186 (Friday, September 25, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Page 51338]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-25725]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Foreign-Trade Zones Board
[Docket 44-98]
Foreign-Trade Zone 137--Washington Dulles International Airport,
Virginia 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 Virginia's Eastern
Shore region, adjacent to the Cambridge, Maryland and Norfolk-Newport
News, Virginia, 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 September 15, 1998.
FTZ 137 was approved on April 17, 1987 (Board Order 350, 52 F.R.
13489, 4/23/87). The zone project currently consists of the following
sites (250 acres): Site 1--within the Washington Dulles International
Airport complex, Fairfax and Loudoun Counties; and, Site 2--warehouse
facility, 110 Terminal Drive, Sterling. An application is currently
pending with the Board for an additional site in Loudoun County, two
miles west of the airport (Doc. 40-97).
This application is requesting authority to expand the general-
purpose zone to include 3 new sites (6,788 acres) in the Eastern Shore
region of Virginia (Proposed Sites 4-6): Proposed Site 4 (6,187 acres,
2 parcels)--the Goddard Space Flight Center-Wallops Flight Facility
(Accomack County), owned by NASA--Parcel 1 (1,856 acres)--NASA Wallop
Flight Facility-Main Base (a former U.S. naval air station), Accomack
County; and, Parcel 2 (4,331 acres)--NASA Wallop Flight Facility,
Wallops Island, Chincoteague (Accomack County); Proposed Site 5 (449
acres)--Accomack Airport Industrial Park, U.S. Highway 13 & Parkway
Road, Melfa (Accomack County); and, Proposed Site 6 (130 acres)--within
the 579-acre Port of Cape Charles Sustainable Technologies Industrial
Park, two miles from U.S. 13 on SR 1108, Bayshore Drive, Northampton
County, Virginia. NASA has signed an agreement with the Virginia
Commercial Space Flight Authority (VCSFA) that allows VCSFA to develop
proposed Site 4 as a center for commercial space launch services. The
Wallops Flight Facility includes orbital tracking stations, research
facilities, and facilities for testing, assembly and preparation of
rockets and payloads, as well as several launch platforms suitable for
military and commercial rocket launches. Proposed Site 5 is owned by
Accomack County, Virginia, and the Accomack Industrial Development
Authority. Proposed Site 6 is owned by Northampton County, Virginia. 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 24, 1998. Rebuttal comments in response
to material submitted during the foregoing period may be submitted
during the subsequent 15-day period to December 9, 1998.
A copy of the application and accompanying exhibits will be
available for public inspection at each of the following locations:
Eastern Shore of Virginia Economic, Development Commission, 23372 Front
Street, Accomac, VA 23301,
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 17, 1998.
Dennis Puccinelli,
Acting Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 98-25725 Filed 9-24-98; 8:45 am]
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