2660 Federal Register / Vol. 63, No. 11 / Friday, January 16, 1998 / Notices

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Docket 84–97]

Foreign-Trade Zone 136—Brevard

County, FL; Application for ForeignTrade Subzone Status Harris

Corporation—Electronic Systems

Sector (Telecommunication/

Information Systems), Brevard County,

FL

An application has been submitted to

the Foreign-Trade Zones Board (the

Board) by the Canaveral Port Authority,

grantee of FTZ 136, requesting specialpurpose subzone status for the

manufacturing facilities

(telecommunication/information

systems) of the Electronic Systems

Sector (ESS) business unit of Harris

Corporation, located at sites in Brevard

County, Florida. The application was

submitted pursuant to 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 December 22, 1997.

The Harris ESS facilities are located at

four sites in Brevard County, Florida

(388 acres, 1.9 million sq. ft.): Site 1 (44

buildings/1.9 million square feet on 181

acres)—located at 2400 NE Palm Bay

Road, Palm Bay; Site 2 (4 buildings/

315,000 sq. ft. on 50 acres)—located at

150 S. Wickham Road, Melbourne; Site

3 (2 buildings/114,000 sq. ft. on 30

acres)—located at 505 N. John Rodes

Blvd., West Melbourne; and Site 4 (3

buildings/215 sq. ft. on 127 acres)—

located at 2800 Jordan Boulevard,

Malabar.

The facilities (6,200 employees) are

used for the development and

manufacture of telecommunication and

information systems products and

related software for defense, aerospace,

transportation and energy management,

meteorology and publishing.

Applications include digital maps,

cockpit controls and displays, antennas,

land and satellite communications

terminals and networks, satellite

antenna testing, electronic warfare and

evaluation systems, global positioning

control systems, signal and imaging

processing, weather support systems,

civil and military air traffic control

systems, integrated airport

communication and management

systems, and information processing

systems for publishing. Some of the

components used in the manufacturing

process are purchased from abroad (an

estimated 10–15% of finished product

value), including power supplies,

mobile data terminals, optical switch

modules, transmission apparatus,

printed circuits, connectors, optical

instruments and appliances, testing

equipment, audio-frequency electrical

amplifiers, static connectors, electronic

parts and equipment, and antennae

reflectors (duty rates range from dutyfree to 8.5%; weighted average—3.4%).

Zone procedures would exempt

Harris from Customs duty payments on

foreign components used in export

production. On its domestic sales,

Harris would be able to choose the

lower duty rate that applies to the

finished products (duty-free to 6.0%;

weighted average—2.5%) for the foreign

components noted above. FTZ

procedures will also help Harris ESS to

implement a more cost-effective system

for handling Customs requirements

(including reduced brokerage fees and

Customs merchandise processing fees).

FTZ status may also make a site eligible

for benefits provided under state/local

programs. The application indicates that

the savings from zone procedures would

help improve the plant’s international

competitiveness.

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 three copies)

shall be addressed to the Board’s

Executive Secretary at the address

below. The closing period for their

receipt is March 17, 1998. Rebuttal

comments in response to material

submitted during the foregoing period

may be submitted during the subsequent

15-day period to April 1, 1998. A copy

of the application and the

accompanying exhibits will be available

for public inspection at each of the

following locations:

Office of the Executive Secretary,

Foreign-Trade Zones Board, U.S.

Department of Commerce, Room

3716, 14th and Pennsylvania Avenue,

NW., Washington, DC 20230

U.S. Department of Commerce Export

Assistance Center, 200 E. Robinson

St., Suite 1270, Orlando, Florida

32801

Dated: December 23,1997.

Dennis Puccinelli,

Acting Executive Secretary.

[FR Doc. 98–1161 Filed 1–15–98; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Docket 1–98]

Foreign-Trade Zone 92, Harrison

County, Mississippi Area Application

for Expansion

An application has been submitted to

the Foreign-Trade Zones (FTZ) Board

(the Board) by the Greater Gulfport/

Biloxi Foreign-Trade Zone, Inc., grantee

of FTZ 92, based in Harrison County,

Mississippi, requesting authority to

expand its zone at sites in Jackson and

Hancock Counties, Mississippi, within

the Pascagoula and Gulfport Customs

ports of entry. The application was

submitted pursuant to the provisions of

the FTZ Act, as amended (19 U.S.C.

81a–81u), and the regulations of the

Board (15 CFR Part 400). It was formally

filed on January 6, 1998.

FTZ 92 was approved on November 4,

1983 (Board Order 232, 48 FR 52107,

11/16/83) and expanded on August 17,

1992 (Board Order 595, 57 FR 39388, 8/

31/97). The zone project currently

consists of the following sites in

Harrison County: Site 1 (167 acres)—

Port of Gulfport complex, Highway 90

and 30th Avenue, Gilbert; Site 2 (717

acres)—industrial area within the

Gulfport/Biloxi Regional Airport,

Gulfport; Site 3 (2,471 acres)—Bernard

Bayou Industrial Park, 1 mile north of

Gulfport, Harrison County; and, Site 4

(484 acres)—Long Beach Industrial Park,

5 miles west of Gulfport between Espy

Avenue and Beat Line Road, Long

Beach.

The applicant, in a major revision to

its zone plan, now requests authority to

expand the general-purpose zone to

include nine new sites (1,731 acres) in

Jackson and Hancock Counties

(Proposed Sites 5–13): Site 5 (254

acres)—Trent C. Lott International

Airport, 8301 Saracennia Road, Moss

Point (Jackson County); Site 6 (148

acres)—Greenwood Island, Bayou

Casotte area of Pascagoula (Jackson

County); Site 7 (193 acres)—Port of

Pascagoula (2 harbors)—West Harbor

(112 acres), located on the Pascagoula

River, and East Harbor (81 acres),

located in the Bayou Casotte industrial

area, Pascagoula (Jackson County); Site

8 (283 acres)—John C. Stennis Industrial

Park (formerly the Jackson County

Airport), Highway 611/63, adjacent to

the Bayou Casotte Harbor’s deep water

port facility, Pascagoula (Jackson

County); Site 9 (13 acres)—Heinz

facility, east bank of the Pascagoula

River, across from the Port of Pascagoula

West Harbor, Pascagoula (Jackson

County); Site 10 (65 acres)—within the