Applications, hearings, determinations, etc.: New Jersey,

[Federal Register: March 29, 1999 (Volume 64, Number 59)]

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Docket 11-99]

Foreign-Trade Zone 49, Newark/Elizabeth, New Jersey Application for Expansion

An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones (FTZ) Board (the Board) by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, grantee of Foreign-Trade Zone 49, requesting authority to expand its zone to include the jet fuel storage and distribution system at the Newark International Airport in the Cities of Newark and Elizabeth (Union and Essex Counties), New Jersey, within the Newark/New York 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 March 18, 1999.

FTZ 49 was approved on April 6, 1979 (Board Order 146, 44 FR 22502, 4/16/79) and expanded on May 26, 1983 (Board Order 211, 48 FR 24958, 6/ 3/83); October 23, 1987 (Board Order 365, 52 FR 41599, 10/29/87); and, April 19, 1990 (Board Order 470, 55 FR 17478, 4/25/90). The zone project currently consists of the following sites: Site 1 (2,100 acres)--Port Newark/Elizabeth Port Authority Marine Terminal; Site 2 (41 acres)--Global Terminal and Container Services facility on upper New York Bay in Jersey City/Bayonne, NJ; Site 3 (124 acres)--Port Authority Industrial Park, adjacent to the Port Newark/Elizabeth Port Authority Marine Terminal; and, Site 4 (145-acres)--Port Authority AutoMarine Terminal and adjacent 53-acre Greenville Industrial Park on Upper New York Bay's Port Jersey Channel in Bayonne and Jersey City, NJ.

The applicant is now requesting authority to expand the general- purpose zone to include the jet fuel storage and distribution system at the Newark International Airport in the Cities of Newark and Elizabeth (Union and Essex Counties), New Jersey. The system (40 acres) include the bulk jet fuel storage farm (34 acres), Union County; the jet fuel hydrant system (60 miles), Union and Essex Counties; and, the jet fuel selector (manifold) area (3 acres), Union County. These facilities consist primarily of storage tanks, pipelines, pumps, valves, filters, meters and related equipment. The facilities are owned by the applicant. The jet fuel system activity is currently handled by Ogden Aviation Service Company of New Jersey, Inc.

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 May 28, 1999. Rebuttal comments in response to material submitted during the foregoing period may be submitted during the subsequent 15-day period (to June 14, 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, One Gateway Center, 9th Floor, Newark, NJ 07102. Office of the Executive Secretary, Foreign-Trade Zones Board, Room 3716, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th & Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20230.

Dated: March 18, 1999. Dennis Puccinelli, Acting Executive Secretary.

[FR Doc. 99-7522Filed3-26-99; 8:45 am]

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