Foreign-Trade Zone 122Corpus Christi, TX; Application for Expansion

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

[Docket 29-94)]

Foreign-Trade Zone 122--Corpus Christi, TX; Application for

Expansion

An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones Board

(the Board) by the Port of Corpus Christi Authority, grantee of FTZ

122, requesting authority to expand its zone in the Corpus Christi,

Texas, area, within the Corpus Christi 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 August 25, 1994.

FTZ 122 was approved on September 5, 1985 (Board Order 310, 50 FR

38020; 9/19/85) and expanded on December 6, 1991 (Board Order 545, 56

FR 65884; 12/19/91). The zone project includes 4 general-purpose sites

and 11 subzones in the Corpus Christi port of entry area. The general-

purpose zone sites are:

Site 1 (613 acres)--ship channel portion of the Port of Corpus Christi

Inner Harbor Terminal Complex

Site 2 (150 acres)--Corpus Christi Industrial Technology Park, owned by

the City

Site 3 (14 acres)--Ray West Warehouse Company warehouse, located within

two miles of the Port and downtown

Site 4 (176 acres)--American Petrofina Marketing, Inc. bulk storage

facility, located at the mouth of the ship channel

The applicant is now requesting authority to expand the existing

site and add two new sites:

--Expand Site 1 to include the entire Port of Corpus Christi Inner

Harbor terminal complex (7,275 acres, excluding the area on which

Subzone 122H (Hitox) is located)

--Add two general-purpose sites:

--(Proposed Site 5, 3 acres)--Brownsville Gulfside Warehouse, Inc.,

located at 6530 Leopard Street, Corpus Christi, owned by L.L. Harris

Warehouse Properties, Inc.

--(Proposed Site 6, 3 acres)--South Texas Freezer Company, Inc.,

located at 260 McBride Lane, Corpus Christi

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 November 22, 1994. Rebuttal comments in response

to material submitted during the foregoing period may be submitted

during the subsequent 15-day period (to December 6, 1994).

A copy of the application and accompanying exhibits will be

available for public inspection at each of the following locations:

Office of the Port Director, U.S. Customs Service, Government Plaza,

400 Mann Street, Suite 305, Corpus Christi, Texas 78401

Office of the Executive Secretary, Foreign-Trade Zones Board, U.S.

Department of Commerce, Room 3716, 14th & Pennsylvania Avenue, NW,

Washington, DC 20230

Dated: September 9, 1994.

John J. Da Ponte, Jr.,

Executive Secretary.

[FR Doc. 94-23646 Filed 9-22-94; 8:45 am]

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