[Federal Register: November 30, 1999 (Volume 64, Number 229)]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board
[Docket 58-99]

 
Foreign-Trade Zone 84--Houston, Texas; Application for Expansion

    An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones (FTZ) 
Board (the Board) by the Port of Houston Authority, grantee of FTZ 84, 
requesting authority to expand its zone to include a site at the George 
Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston, Texas, within the Houston-
Galveston 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 November 17, 1999.
    FTZ 84 was approved on July 15, 1983 (Board Order 214, 48 FR 34792, 
8/1/83), and the zone project currently consists of thirteen sites 
(1,499.92) at port facilities, industrial parks and warehouse 
facilities in Harris County.
    The applicant is now requesting authority to expand the general-
purpose zone to include the jet fuel storage and distribution system 
(22 acres) at the George Bush Intercontinental Airport on Fuel Storage 
Road, Houston, Texas. The site includes the existing jet fuel storage 
facility (17 acres) and an adjacent proposed 5-acre expansion of the 
facility planned for the year 2001. This facility consists primarily of 
jet fuel storage tanks, a pumping station, pipelines and other 
facilities and structures for loading and unloading fuel. The facility 
is owned by the City of Houston. The jet fuel system activity is 
currently handled by Ogden Aviation Services.
    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 January 31, 2000. Rebuttal comments in response to 
material submitted during the foregoing period may be submitted during 
the subsequent 15-day period (to February 14, 2000).
    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, 500 Dallas, 
Suite 1160, Houston, TX 77002
Office of the Executive Secretary, Foreign-Trade Zones Board, Room 
4008, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th & Pennsylvania Avenue NW, 
Washington, DC 20230

    Dated: November 19, 1999.
Dennis Puccinelli,
Acting Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 99-31095 Filed 11-29-99; 8:45 am]
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