Foreign-Trade Zone 12McAllen, Texas, Area Application for Expansion

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Docket 52-95]

Foreign-Trade Zone 12--McAllen, Texas, Area Application for

Expansion

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

(the Board) by the McAllen Economic Development Corporation, grantee of

Foreign-Trade Zone 12, McAllen, Texas, requesting authority to expand

its zone to include an additional site in the McAllen, Texas, area,

within the Hidalgo 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 September 11, 1995.

FTZ 12 was approved on October 23, 1970 (Board Order 84, 35 FR

16962, 11/3/70) and expanded on May 2, 1984 (Board Order 254, 49 FR

22842, 6/1/84) and June 19, 1990 (Board Order 469, 55 FR 26225, 6/27/

90). The zone currently consists of: Site 1 (80 acres)--within the

McAllen Southwest Industrial Area, FM 1016 and Ware Road, Hidalgo

County, and, Site 2 (8.5 acres)--at the Air Cargo Facility within

McAllen Miller International Airport complex, McAllen, Texas.

The applicant is now requesting authority to expand Site 1 to

include an adjacent 695-acre industrial park area located on FM 1016

between Bentsen Road and Shary Road, Hidalgo County, 5 miles south of

the McAllen Miller International Airport.

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 (as revised, 56 FR

50790-50808, 10-8-91), 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 20, 1995. Rebuttal comments in response

to material submitted during the foregoing period may be submitted

during the subsequent 15-day period (to December 4, 1995).

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, Administration

Building, International Bridge, Hidalgo, Texas 78557

Office of the Executive Secretary, Foreign-Trade Zones Board, Room

3716, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th and Pennsylvania Avenue, NW.,

Washington, DC 20230

Dated: September 13, 1995.

John J. Da Ponte, Jr.,

Executive Secretary.

[FR Doc. 95-23221 Filed 9-18-95; 8:45 am]

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