[Federal Register: September 22, 1999 (Volume 64, Number 183)]
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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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