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Federal Register: November 22, 1999 (Volume 64, Number 224)NoticesPage 63785-63786From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]

DOCID:fr22no99-58

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

Docket 56-99Foreign-Trade Zone 174--Tucson, AZ; Application for Expansion

An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones (FTZ) Board (the Board), by the City of Tucson, Arizona, grantee of Foreign- Trade Zone 174, requesting authority to expand its zone (Site 2) in Tucson, Arizona, within the Tucson 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 filedon November 8, 1999.

FTZ 174 was approved on January 30, 1991 (Board Order 508, 56 FR 4595, 2/5/91). The City of Tucson, Arizona, was designated the new grantee on November 22, 1996. The general-purpose zone project currently consists of five sites (398 acres): Site 1 (107 acres)-- Southpointe Park, intersection of Kolb and Valencia Roads; Site 2 (193 acres)--Century Park Research Center, along Kolb Road between Valencia Road and I-10; Site 3 (70 acres)--within the Santa Cruz industrial park; Site 4 (25 acres)--within the Downtown Commerce Park, adjacent to I-19 and I-10; and, Site 5 (3 acres)--warehouse facility, 330 South Toole Avenue.

The applicant is now requesting authority to expand existing Site 2, by

[Page 63786]adding a 70-acre parcel within the Century Park Research Center, along Kolb Road between Valencia Road and I-10, Tucson. This proposed expansion is located within the State designated Enterprise Zone and will increase Site 2 from 193 acres to 263 acres. The area previously had FTZ status prior to a relocation of certain space in 1996. The site is owned by the Levin Family Limited Partnership. 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 21, 2000. Rebuttal comments in response to material submitted during the foregoing period may be submitted during the subsequent 15-day period (to February 7, 2000).

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, 166 West Alameda, Tucson, AZ 85701. Office of the Executive Secretary, Foreign-Trade Zones Board, Room 4008, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th & Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20230.

Dated: November 9, 1999. Dennis Puccinelli, Acting Executive Secretary.

FR Doc. 99-30385Filed11-19-99; 8:45 amBILLING CODE 3510-DS-P

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