[Federal Register: August 21, 2007 (Volume 72, Number 161)]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Foreign-Trade Zones Board
[Docket 35-2007]
Foreign-Trade Zone 39 -- Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas, Application
for Reorganization/Expansion
An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones (FTZ)
Board (the Board) by the Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport Board,
grantee of FTZ 39, requesting authority to reorganize and expand its
existing zone in the Dallas area within the Dallas 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 August 8, 2007.
FTZ 39 was approved on August 17, 1978 (Board Order 133, 43 FR
37478, 8/23/78), and expanded on: December 11, 1992 (Board Order 613,
57 FR 61046, 12/23/92); December 27, 1994 (Board Order 723, 60 FR 2377,
1/9/95); December 27, 1994 (Board Order 724, 60 FR 2376, 1/9/95); March
12, 1999 (Board Order 1028, 64 FR 14212, 3/24/99); and, March 29, 2002
(Board Order 1213, 67 FR 17049, 4/9/02).
The zone project currently consists of the following six sites
(5,182 acres total): Site 1 (2,400 acres)--within the
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18,000-acre Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport complex; Site 2
(754 acres)--Southport Centre Industrial Park, South Dallas; Site 3
(552 acres)--within the 1,100-acre Grayson County Airport Complex,
Grayson County; Site 4 (644 acres, 3 parcels)--Railhead Fort Worth
site, intersection of Loop 820 (the Jim Wright Freeway) and Blue Mound
Road (FM 156), Fort Worth; Site 5 (280 acres)--within the 745-acre
Meacham Airport complex, intersection of Loop 820 and Interstate 35,
Fort Worth; and, Site 6 (552 acres)--within the 1,060-acre Redbird
Airport complex, intersection of Loop 12 and Interstate 35, Dallas.
The applicant is now requesting authority to reorganize and expand
existing Site 2 and to expand the zone to include six additional sites
in the Dallas area: Site 2--modify the site by deleting 108 acres due
to changed circumstances and expand the site to include an additional
1,303 acres within the larger 6,000-acre Dallas Logistics Hub (in which
Site 2 will be renamed) located in the Cities of Hutchins, Wilmer,
Lancaster and Dallas (new total acreage--1,949 acres); Proposed Site 7
(39 acres)--Duke Intermodal Park located at Interstate 45 and E.
Wintergreen Road, Hutchins; Proposed Site 8 (434 acres)--within the
650-acre Sunridge Business Park, located at Interstate 45 and East
Pleasant Road, Wilmer; Proposed Site 9 (356 acres)--Dalport Business
Park, located at the southwest corner of Interstate 45 and Beltline
Road, Wilmer; Proposed Site 10 (50 acres)--within the 307-acre
Lancaster Municipal Airport Complex, Lancaster; Proposed Site 11 (175
acres)--ProLogis 20/35 Industrial Park, located near the intersection
of Interstate 20 and N. Houston School Road, Lancaster; and, Proposed
Site 12 (112 acres)--Crossroads Trade Center, located at Interstate 35E
and Danieldale Road, DeSoto. The sites are owned by The Allen Group,
Duke Realty LLP, Wilmer Pleasant Run L.P., Argent Property Co., City of
Lancaster, ProLogis, and Hillwood LIT II LP, respectively. The sites
will provide warehousing and distribution space for 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, a member of the FTZ
Staff has been designated examiner to investigate the application and
report 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
October 22, 2007. Rebuttal comments in response to material submitted
during the foregoing period may be submitted during the subsequent 15-
day period to November 5, 2007.
A copy of the application and accompanying exhibits will be
available for public inspection at each of the following locations:
Fort Worth U.S. Export Assistance Center, 808 Throckmorton Street, Fort
Worth, TX 76102; and, Office of the Executive Secretary, Foreign-Trade
Zones Board, Room 2111, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution
Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20230.
For further information, contact Camille Evans at
Camille_Evans@ita.doc.gov or at (202) 482-2350.
Dated: August 10, 2007.
Pierre V. Duy,
Acting Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. E7-16445 Filed 8-20-07; 8:45 am]
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