[Federal Register: February 24, 1999 (Volume 64, Number 36)]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board
[Docket 7-99]

 
Foreign-Trade Zone 106--Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Area; 
Application for Expansion

    An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones (FTZ) 
Board (the Board) by the Port Authority of the Greater Oklahoma City 
Area, grantee of FTZ 106, requesting authority to expand its zone in 
the Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, area, within the Oklahoma City 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 
February 12, 1999.
    FTZ 106 was approved on September 14, 1984 (Board Order 271, 49 FR 
37133, 9/21/84) and expanded on December 7, 1989 (Board Order 455, 54 
F.R. 51441, 12/15/89). The zone project currently consists of the 
following sites: Site 1 (876 acres)--within the 6,700-acre Will Rogers 
World Airport complex; and, Site 2 (6 acres)--106,000-square foot 
distribution and storage warehouse, 3501 Melcat Drive in the Lakeside 
Business Park, less than a mile from the Will Rogers World Airport.
    The applicant, in a major revision to its zone plan, now requests 
authority to expand the general-purpose zone to include 9 new sites 
(793 acres) in the Oklahoma City area (Proposed Sites 3-11): Proposed 
Site 3 (5 acres)--Mid America Business Park 1 (owned by Russell 
Vaught), 6205 S. Sooner, Oklahoma City; Proposed Site 4 (50 acres)--Mid 
America Business Park II, (owned by Russell Vaught), Mid America Blvd., 
Oklahoma City; Proposed Site 5 (292 acres)--South River Industrial Park 
(owned by the City of Oklahoma City), IH-35 and IH 40, Oklahoma City; 
Proposed Site 6 (42 acres)--Continental Distribution Park (owned by 
Clay T. Farha), SW 29th and Council, Oklahoma City; Proposed Site 7 
(110 acres)--industrial park (owned by Western Heights Properties, 
L.L.C.), south of SW 29th between S. Rockwell & Council, Oklahoma City; 
Proposed Site 8 (30 acres)--Airport NE (owned by Oklahoma City Airport 
Trust)--immediately northeast of Will Rogers World Airport, Oklahoma 
City; Proposed Site 9 (200 acres)--Kelley Pointe Industrial Park (owned 
by Clay T. Farha), 33rd Street and Kelley Ave., Edmond; Proposed Site 
10 (43 acres)--Kelley Avenue International Trade Center (owned by 
Jackson Financial Services, Inc.), south of 15th between Kelley Ave. 
and AT&SF Railroad, Edmond; and, Proposed Site 11 (21 acres) Tower 
Industrial Park, Tract II (owned by Steve E. Wells), Tower Drive and 
Woodview, Moore. The application identifies the sites geographically 
within the Oklahoma City area, as follows: Eastern Quadrant (Sites 3, 
4, and 5); Western Quadrant (Sites 6, 7, and 8); Northern Quadrant 
(Sites 9 and 10); and, Southern Quadrant (Site 11). 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 April 26, 1999. Rebuttal comments in response to 
material submitted during the foregoing period may be submitted during 
the subsequent 15-day period (to May 10, 1999).
    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, 301 Northwest 
63rd Street, Room 330, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73116
Office of the Executive Secretary, Foreign-Trade Zones Board, Room 
3716, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th & Pennsylvania Avenue NW, 
Washington, DC 20230

    Dated: February 16, 1999.
Dennis Puccinelli,
Acting Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 99-4587 Filed 2-23-99; 8:45 am]
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