[Federal Register: July 30, 1999 (Volume 64, Number 146)]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board
[Docket 37-99]

 
Foreign-Trade Zone 143--Sacramento, California Area; Application 
for Expansion

    An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones (FTZ) 
Board (the Board) by the Sacramento-Yolo Port District, grantee of FTZ 
143, requesting authority to expand its zone to include a site in 
Chico, California. 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 July 16, 1999.
    FTZ 143 was approved on August 6, 1987 (Board Order 360, 52 FR. 
30698, 8/17/87) and expanded on December 15, 1997 (Board Order 944, 62 
FR 67043, 12/23/97). The zone project currently consists of the 
following sites: Site 1 (686 acres)--within the Port of Sacramento, 
Industrial Blvd. and Boatman Ave., West Sacramento; and, Site 2 (1,280 
acres)--Lincoln Airport Business Park, Aviation Boulevard, Lincoln, 
some 25 miles northeast of Sacramento.
    This application is requesting authority to further expand the 
general-purpose zone to include an additional site: (Proposed Site 3--
1,574 acres)--Chico Municipal Airport complex and adjacent industrial 
development area, city of Chico, County of Butte. The proposed zone 
site is divided into three parcels as follows: East Area (300 acres)--
east of Cohasset Road on mostly vacant land, Chico; West Area (250 
acres)--adjacent to and west of the Chico Municipal Airport, under the 
jurisdiction of the County of Butte and the city of Chico; and, the 
Airport Area (1,024 acres)--Chico Municipal Airport complex, Chico, 
including the Airport Industrial Park (but excluding airport runways 
and public terminal area). No specific manufacturing requests are being 
made at this time. Such requests would be made to the Board on a case-
by-case basis.
    Section 2422 of the Miscellaneous Trade and Technical Correction 
Act of 1999 (P.L. 106-36) directs the Foreign-Trade Zones Board to 
expand FTZ 143 to include a site in Chico in accordance with the 
application described above.
    In accordance with the Board's regulations, a member of the FTZ 
Staff has been designated examiner to review the application and report 
to the Board.
    Public comment on the application may be submitted to the Board's

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Executive Secretary at the address below. The closing period for their 
receipt is August 16, 1999.
    A copy of the application and accompanying exhibits will be 
available for public inspection at each of the following locations:

Office of the Port Director, Sacramento-Yolo Port District, 3251 Beacon 
Boulevard, Suite 210, West Sacramento, CA 95691
Office of the Executive Secretary, Foreign-Trade Zones Board, Room 
3716, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th & Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, 
Washington, DC 20230

    Dated: July 19, 1999.
Dennis Puccinelli,
Acting Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 99-19607 Filed 7-29-99; 8:45 am]
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