[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 220 (Tuesday, November 15, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Pages 70703-70704]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-29501]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Foreign-Trade Zones Board
[Docket 72-2011]
Foreign-Trade Zone 61--San Juan, Puerto Rico; Application 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 the zone to include a site in
Aguadilla, Puerto Rico. 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 9, 2011.
FTZ 61 was approved on October 20, 1980 (Board Order 165, 45 FR
71408, 10/28/80). The zone was expanded on September 28, 2007 (Board
Order 1528, 72 FR 56723, 10/4/07) and on July 8, 2010 (Board Order
1698, 75 FR 41819-41820, 7/19/10).
The zone currently consists of 23 sites (692.55 acres): Site 1
(224.32 acres total)--five parcels within the International Trade
Center grounds in Guaynabo; Site 2 (11 acres, sunset 10/31/12)--North
Distribution Center, located at Km. 1.1 on Highway 869, Cata[ntilde]o;
Site 3 (15 acres, sunset 10/31/12)--Cata[ntilde]o Equipment and Storage
Complex, intersection of Highway 165 and Las Palmas Avenue,
Cata[ntilde]o; Site 4 (2 acres, sunset 10/31/14)--Bayamon Logistics,
Storage and Distribution Center, intersection of Calle C and Highway
28, Bayam[oacute]n; Site 5 (17.38 acres total, sunset 10/31/12)--five
parcels within the Corujo Industrial Park in Bayam[oacute]n; Site 6 (4
acres, sunset 10/31/12)--warehouse facilities located on the north side
of Highway 2, one mile east of Highway 165, Toa Baja; Site 7 (2 acres,
sunset 10/31/12)--Baldioroty de Castro Warehouse and Distribution
Center, located at intersection of Km
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10.3, Marginal de la Avenida de Baldioroty de Castro, Carolina; Site 8
(5 acres, sunset 10/31/14)--Manat[iacute] chemical warehouse,
intersection of Highways 686 and 670, Manat[iacute]; Site 9 (7 acres,
sunset 10/31/14)--warehouse facilities located at Km 28.6 on Highway 1,
Caguas; Site 10 (15 acres, sunset 10/31/12)--storage complex at J.F.
Kennedy Avenue and Km 3.9, San Juan; Site 11 (32 acres)--Mayaguez
Regional Distribution Center, 201 Algarrobo Avenue, Mayag[uuml]ez; Site
12 (4.4 acres)--Yabucoa Port Facility, located east of PR Road 53 on PR
Road 9914 at the Port of Yabucoa, Yabucoa; Site 13 (3 acres)--Benitez
Group and Sedeco Discount, Inc., State Road 3, Km 77.2, Barrio Abajo,
Humacao; Site 14 (5.96 acres, sunset 6/30/15)--Angora Industrial Park,
Rd 1, Km 32.6, Bairoa Avenue, Caguas; Site 15 (8.73 acres,
sunset 6/30/15)--two parcels within the Royal Industrial Park in
Cata[ntilde]o; Site 16 (0.78 acres, sunset 6/30/15)--Benitez Commercial
Complex, Rd 1, Km 32.9, Bairoa Avenue, Caguas; Site 17 (7
acres)--warehouse building located at Road 5, Km 4.0, Barrio
Palmas, Cata[ntilde]o; Site 18 (300.6 acres)--Yabucoa Industrial Park,
located on Puerto Rico Road 2, Km 92.0 in the Agucate district,
Yabucoa; Site 19 (1.95 acres total)--two parcels within the Palmas
Industrial Zone in Cata[ntilde]o; Site 20 (2.25 acres)--warehouse/
storage facility located at Km 30.6 and PR 1, Caguas; Site 21
(5.11 acres)--Mercado Central, Calle C 1229, Puerto Nuevo;
Site 22 (1.17 acres)--Autogermana Inc., 275 Cesar Gonzalez Avenue, San
Juan; and, Site 23 (16.9 acres, expires 8/31/14)--Rooms To Go, Road
2, Km 19.1, Bo. Candelario, Toa Baja.
The applicant is requesting authority to expand the zone to include
a site at the Rafael Hern[aacute]ndez Airport in Aguadilla (Proposed
Site 24--1,124.03 acres). The site will provide warehousing and
distribution services to 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, Camille Evans of the
FTZ Staff is designated examiner to evaluate and analyze the facts and
information presented in the application and case record and to report
findings and recommendations 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
January 17, 2012. Rebuttal comments in response to material submitted
during the foregoing period may be submitted during the subsequent 15-
day period to January 30, 2012.
A copy of the application will be available for public inspection
at the Office of the Executive Secretary, Foreign-Trade Zones Board,
Room 2111, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue NW.,
Washington, DC 20230-0002, and in the ``Reading Room'' section of the
Board's Web site, which is accessible via http://www.trade.gov/ftz.
For further information, contact Camille Evans at
[email protected] or (202) 482-2350.
Dated: November 9, 2011.
Andrew McGilvray,
Executive Secretary.
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