[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 51 (Wednesday, March 17, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Pages 12730-12731]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-5842]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Foreign-Trade Zones Board
[Docket 17-2010]
Foreign-Trade Zone 163--Ponce, Puerto Rico; Application for
Expansion
An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones (FTZ)
Board (the Board) by CODEZOL, C.D., grantee of FTZ 163, requesting
authority to expand its zone to include an additional site in the
Ponce, Puerto Rico area, within the Ponce Customs and Border Protection
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
March 8, 2010.
FTZ 163 was approved on October 18, 1989 (Board Order 443, 54 FR
46097, 11/01/89) and expanded on April 18, 2000 (Board Order 1091, 65
FR 24676, 4/27/00), on June 9, 2005 (Board Order 1397, 70 FR 36117, 6/
22/05), on July 26, 2006 (Board Order 1467, 71 FR 44996, 8/8/06), on
November 9, 2006 (Board Order 1487, 71 FR 67098, 11/20/06), and on June
26, 2009 (Board Order 1631, 74 FR 34306, 7/15/09).
The zone project currently consists of the following sites in
Puerto Rico: Site 1 (106 acres)--within the Port of Ponce area,
including a parcel (11 acres) located at 3309 Avenida Santiago de Los
Caballeros, Ponce; Site 2 (191 acres, 5 parcels)--Peerless Oil &
Chemicals, Inc., Petroleum Terminal Facilities located at Rt. 127, Km.
17.1, Penuelas; Site 3 (13 acres, 2 parcels)--Rio Piedras Distribution
Center located within the central portion of the Quebrada Arena
Industrial Park, and the Hato Rey Distribution Center located within
the northeastern portion of the Tres Monjitas Industrial Park, San
Juan; Site 4 (14 acres)--warehouse facility located at State Road No.
3, Km. 1401, Guayama; Site 5 (256 acres, 34 parcels)--located at
Mercedita Industrial Park at the intersection of Route PR-9 and Las
Americas Highway, Ponce; Site 6 (86 acres)--Coto Laurel Industrial Park
located at the southwest corner of the intersection of Highways PR-56
and PR-52, Ponce; Site 7 (17 acres)--warehouse facility located at
State Road No. 1, Km 21.1, Guaynabo; Site 8 (5 acres)--warehouse
facility located at 42 Salmon Street, Ponce; Site 9 (6 acres)--
warehouse facility located on PR Highway 2, at Km.165.2, Hormigueros;
and, Site 10 (6 acres)--warehouse facility at 1 Flamboyances
Avenue, Road 506 and Rt.14, Coto Laurel Ward, Ponce. An application is
pending as the applicant has requested authority (74 FR 62747, 12/01/
09) to expand Site 1 to include 3 additional parcels and to add Site
11.
The applicant is now requesting authority to include the following
site: Proposed Site 12 (6 acres)--Yaucono Industrial Park, 2822 Las
Americas Ave., Ponce. The site will provide public warehousing and
distribution services to area businesses. No specific manufacturing
authority is being requested at this time. Such requests would be made
to the Board on a case-by-case basis.
In accordance with the Board's regulations, Kathleen Boyce of the
FTZ Staff is designated examiner to evaluate
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and analyze the facts and information presented in the application and
case record and to report findings and recommendations to the Board.
Public comment 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
May 17, 2010. Rebuttal comments in response to material submitted
during the foregoing period may be submitted during the subsequent 15-
day period (to June 1, 2010).
A copy of the application and accompanying exhibits will be
available for public inspection at the Office of the Executive
Secretary, Foreign-Trade Zones Board, Room 2111, U.S. Department of
Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20230-0002, and
in the ``Reading Room'' section of the Board's Web site, which is
accessible via http://www.trade.gov/ftz.
For further information, contact Kathleen Boyce at
[email protected] or 202-482-1346.
Dated: March 8, 2010.
Andrew McGilvray,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2010-5842 Filed 3-16-10; 8:45 am]
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