[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 130 (Tuesday, July 8, 1997)] [Notices] [Pages 36487-36488] From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov] [FR Doc No: 97-17774] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE Foreign-Trade Zones Board [Docket 56-97] Foreign-Trade Zone 168--Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas, Area; Application for Expansion An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones Board (the Board) by the Dallas/Fort Worth Maquila Trade Development Corporation, grantee of FTZ 168, requesting authority to expand its zone to include two sites in Gainesville (Cooke County), Texas, adjacent to the Dallas/Fort Worth 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 June 27, 1997. FTZ 168 was approved on November 1, 1990 (Board Order 491, 55 FR 46974, 11/8/90) and has been expanded four times (B.O.'s 603, 873, 885, 886). The zone currently consists of six sites in the Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas, area: Site 1 (24 acres)--industrial area at Alta Mesa and Will Rogers Boulevards, Fort Worth; Site 2 (263 acres)--Centreport Industrial Development, south of DFW International Airport, Fort Worth; Site 3 (195 acres)--Fossil Creek Business Park, I-35W and I-820, Fort Worth; Site 4 (91 acres)--Regency Business Park, Post & Paddock Road, Grand Prairie; Site 5 (630 acres) within the 1,200-acre Mercantile Center, located at I-35 and Meacham Boulevard, Fort Worth; Site 6 (168 acres) Frankford Trade Center, I-35E and Frankford Road, Carrollton. The applicant is now requesting authority to expand the zone to include two industrial parks (642 acres total) located in Gainesville (Cooke County), Texas, some 50 miles north of the Dallas/Fort Worth Customs port of entry: Proposed Site 7 (185 acres) Corporate Square Industrial Park/Armco/National Industrial Center, 3333 North I.H. 35; and, Proposed Site 8 (457 acres) Gainesville Municipal Airport, 2300 Bonnavilla Drive. The sites are owned by the City of Gainesville, though certain parcels have been sold to individual businesses. Zone services will be provided by the FTZ Operating Company of Texas. 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 September 8, 1997. Rebuttal comments in response to material submitted during the foregoing period may be submitted during the subsequent 15-day period (to September 22, 1997). 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, District Office, 2050 N. Stemmons Fwy., Suite 170, Dallas, Texas 75258 Office of the Executive Secretary, Foreign-Trade Zones Board, U.S. Department of Commerce, Room 3716, 14th & Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20230 [[Page 36488]] Dated: July 1, 1997. John J. Da Ponte, Jr., Executive Secretary. [FR Doc. 97-17774 Filed 7-7-97; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 3510-DS-P