[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 124 (Wednesday, June 27, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Page 34150]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-16168]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Docket 26-2001]


Foreign-Trade Zone 39--Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas; Application for 
Expansion

    An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones (FTZ) 
Board (the Board), by the Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport 
Board, grantee of Foreign-Trade Zone 39, requesting authority to expand 
its zone in Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas, within 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 20, 2001.
    FTZ 39 was approved on August 17, 1978 (Board Order 133, 43 FR 
37478, 8/23/78) and expanded on December 11, 1992 (Board Order 613, 57 
FR 61046, 12/23/92); December 27, 1994 (Board Order 723, 60 FR 2377, 1/
9/95); December 27, 1994 (Board Order 724, 60 FR 2376, 1/9/95); and, 
March 12, 1999 (Board Order 1028, 64 FR 14212, 3/24/99). The zone 
project currently consists of the following sites: Site 1 (2,400 
acres)--within the 18,000-acre Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport 
complex; Site 2 (754 acres)--Southport Centre Industrial Park, South 
Dallas; Site 3 (552 acres)--within the 1,100-acre Grayson County 
Airport complex, Grayson County; and, Site 4 (644 acres, 3 parcels)--
Railhead Fort Worth site, intersection of Loop 820 (the Jim Wright 
Freeway) and Blue Mound Road (FM 156), Fort Worth.
    The applicant is now requesting authority to expand the general-
purpose zone to include two new sites (832 acres) in the Dallas/Forth 
Worth area (Proposed Sites 5 and 6): Proposed Site 5 (280 acres)--
within the 745-acre Meacham Airport complex, intersection of Loop 820 
and Interstate 35, Fort Worth; and, Proposed Site 6 (552 acres)--within 
the 1,060-acre Redbird Airport complex, intersection of Loop 12 and 
Interstate 35, Dallas. Proposed Site 5 is owned by the City of Fort 
Worth and Proposed Site 6 is owned by the City of Dallas. 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 August 27, 2001. Rebuttal comments in response to 
material submitted during the foregoing period may be submitted during 
the subsequent 15-day period (to September 10, 2001).
    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, International Trade Administration, Export 
Assistance Center, 711 Houston Street, Fort Worth, TX 76102
Office of the Executive Secretary, Foreign-Trade Zones Board, Room 
4008,U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th & Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, 
Washington, DC 20230.

    Dated: June 20, 2001.
Dennis Puccinelli,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 01-16168 Filed 6-26-01; 8:45 am]
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