Foreign-Trade Zone 81; Portsmouth, New Hampshire; Application for Expansion (Pease International Tradeport)

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Docket 79-96]

Foreign-Trade Zone 81; Portsmouth, New Hampshire; Application for

Expansion (Pease International Tradeport)

An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones (FTZ)

Board (the Board) by the New Hampshire State Port Authority, grantee of

FTZ 81, requesting authority to expand FTZ 81 to include an additional

site in Portsmouth, within the Portsmouth 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 October 23, 1996.

FTZ 81 was approved on January 20, 1983 (Board Order 207, 48 FR

4308, 1/31/83) and expanded on April 12, 1985 (Board Order 302, 50 FR

15948, 4/23/85). The general-purpose zone currently consists of four

sites: Site 1 (10 acres)--within the Port Authority's deep water port

facility at 555 Market Street on Portsmouth Harbor; Site 2 (175

acres)--Portsmouth Industrial Park on Lafayette Road, Portsmouth; Site

3 (54 acres)--Crosby Industrial Park on Crosby Road, Dover; and, Site 4

(1,469 acres)--industrial/commercial complex known as the Old Grenier

Air Force Base, Manchester.

The applicant is now requesting authority to further expand the

general-purpose zone to include an additional site (proposed Site 5--

2,095 acres)--at the Pease International Tradeport, formerly the Pease

Air Force Base, 601 Spaulding Turnpike, Portsmouth. The development

agency for the project is the Pease Development Authority. Firms will

be able to utilize zone services in an industrial park environment

which would include activities such as warehousing/distribution,

testing and processing of industrial machinery, research in high

technology fields, and airport related functions. 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 January 6, 1997. Rebuttal comments in response to

material submitted during the foregoing period may be submitted during

the subsequent 15-day period (to January 21, 1997).

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, 601 Spaulding

Turnpike, Suite 29, Portsmouth, NH 03801

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: October 28, 1996.

John J. Da Ponte, Jr.,

Executive Secretary.

[FR Doc. 96-28447 Filed 11-5-96; 8:45 am]

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