[Federal Register: November 15, 2006 (Volume 71, Number 220)]
[Notices]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Foreign-Trade Zones Board
Docket 42-2006
Foreign-Trade Zone 61 - San Juan, Puerto RicoApplication for
Expansion
An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones Board
(the Board) by the Puerto Rico Trade and Export Company, grantee of FTZ
61, requesting authority to expand FTZ 61 in the San Juan, Puerto Rico,
area, adjacent to the San Juan 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 3, 2006.
FTZ 61 was approved on October 20, 1980 (Board Order No. 165, 45 FR
71408, 10/28/80). The zone project currently consists of the following
sites: Site 1 (60 acres)-located within the 203-acre International
Trade Center, at Highway 165, km. 2.4, Guaynabo;
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Temporary Site 2 (3 acres, 117,270 sq. ft.)-warehouse facilities within
the Centro Mercantil Internacional (CMI) complex, West Street, Guaynabo
(expires 1/31/07); Temporary Site 3 (14 acres)-warehouse facilities,
located at Highway 22 and J.F. Kennedy Avenue, km. 3.9, San Juan
(expires 11/1/08); and, Temporary Site 4 (5 acres)-North Distribution
Center (Able Sales warehouse), located at PR Highway 869, km.1.1,
Catano (expires 3/1/07).
The applicant is requesting authority to expand Site 1 to include
additional acreage and to include 11 additional sites in the San Juan
area: Expand Site 1 to include an additional 184 acres in Guaynabo-
Parcel A (180 acres)-International Trade Center Grounds, Highway 165,
km. 2.4 (which will include the existing 60-acre site); Parcel B (42
acres)-tract of undeveloped land, intersection of State Road 22 and
State Road 28; Parcel C (12 acres)-tract of developed land, at Highway
28 and Cano Avenue; Parcel D (5acres)-Amelia Distribution Center,
intersection of Highway 165 and Calle Amelia; Parcel E (5 acres)-
warehouse building, within the Centro Mercantil Internacional Complex,
West Street, at the International Trade Center Grounds (which will
include Temporary Site 2 on a permanent basis) (new total-244 acres);
Proposed Site 2 (11 acres)-North Distribution Center, located at km.
1.1 on Highway 869, Cata o (which will include Temporary Site 4 on a
permanent basis); Proposed Site 3 (15 acres)-Cata o Equipment and
Storage Complex, intersection of Highway 165 and Las Palmas Avenue,
Catano; Proposed Site 4 (2 acres)-Bayamon Logistics, Storage and
Distribution Center, intersection of Calle C and Highway 28, Bayamon;
Proposed Site 5 (3 acres)-Corujo Industrial Park, located at Road 866,
Km. 1.7, Hato Tejas; Proposed Site 6 (4 acres)-warehouse facilities
located on the north side of Highway 2, one mile east of Highway 165,
Toa Baja; Proposed Site 7 (2 acres)-Baldioroty de Castro Warehouse and
Distribution Center, located at intersection of km 10.3, Marginal de la
Avenida de Baldioroty de Castro, Carolina; Proposed Site 8 (5 acres)-
Manati chemical warehouse, intersection of Highways 686 and 670,
Manati; Proposed Site 9 (7 acres)-warehouse facilities located at km.
28.6 on Highway 1, Caguas; Proposed Site 10 (14 acres)-storage complex
at J.F. Kennedy Avenue and km 3.9, San Juan (which will include
Temporary Site 3 on a permanent basis); Proposed Site 11 (32 acres)-
Mayaguez Regional Distribution Center, located at 201 Algarrobo Avenue,
Mayaguez; and, Proposed Site 12 (310 acres, 2 parcels)-Yabucoa
Industrial Park, at the intersection of Highway 901 and Highway 53,
Yabucoa. 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 16, 2007.
Rebuttal comments in response to material submitted during the
foregoing period may be submitted during the subsequent 15-day period
(to January 29, 2007).
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, 420 Ponce de Leon Avenue, Midtown Bldg.,
10th Fl., San Juan, Puerto Rico 00918; and, Office of the Executive
Secretary, Foreign-Trade Zones Board, Room 1115, U.S. Department of
Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20230.
Dated: November 3, 2006.
Pierre V. Duy,
Acting Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. E6-19301 Filed 11-14-06; 8:45 am]