Foreign-Trade Zone 80San Antonio, Texas; Application for Expansion

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

[Docket 82-96]

Foreign-Trade Zone 80--San Antonio, Texas; Application for

Expansion

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

(the Board) by the City of San Antonio, Texas, grantee of FTZ 80,

requesting authority to expand its zone in San Antonio, Texas, area,

within the San Antonio 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 December 2, 1996.

FTZ 80 was approved on September 16, 1982 (Board Order 200, 47 FR

42011; 9/23/82), and expanded on May 17, 1991 (Board Order 552, 56 FR

24171, 5/29/91). The zone currently consists of eight sites in the San

Antonio, Texas, area:

Site 1 (1 acre, 58,000 sq. ft.) Southwest Freight Warehouse, 5040

Space Center Drive, San Antonio;

Site 2 (4 acres, 80,000 sq. ft.)--within San Antonio International

Airport complex, John Saunders and Wetmore Roads, San Antonio;

Site 3 (500 acres)--Freeport Business Centre, Quintana Road at I-

35, Bexar County;

Site 4 (195 acres)--Cornerstone Business Park, IH-10 East and Loop

410, Bexar County;

Site 5 (281 acres)--Tri-County Business Park, FM 3009 and IH-35,

Shertz, Texas (Guadalupe & Comal Counties);

Site 6 (683 acres)--Foster Ridge Industrial Park, Foster and Kiefer

Roads, Bexar County;

Site 7 (2 Parcels; 31 acres)--Binz-Engleman Center, I-35 North at

Binz-Engleman Road, San Antonio; and City Park East, N.E. Loop 410 at

IH-10 East and Eddie Road, San Antonio; and,

Site 8 (9 acres, 208,000 sq. ft.)--1143 Coliseum Road, San Antonio,

owned by Security Capital Industrial Trust (expires 10/1/97).

The applicant is now requested authority to expand Sites 2 and 8,

and to include two new sites (proposed Sites 9 and 10) as follows:

Site 2--expand to include the airport's East Air Cargo area located

on Wetmore Road, San Antonio, increasing total area to 50 acres;

Site 8--expand to include the entire Coliseum Distribution Center,

San Antonio, and remove time limit, increasing total area to 46 acres;

Proposed Site 9 (85 acres)--Henry B. Gonzalez and Alamadome

Convention Centers, Market Street and Durango Boulevard, San Antonio;

Proposed Site 10 (2,407 acres)--former Kelly Air Force Base

including adjacent proposed Van de Walle industrial park (555 acres),

Commerce Street and Acme Road, San Antonio.

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 February 18, 1997. Rebuttal comments in response

to material submitted during the foregoing period may be submitted

during the subsequent 15-day period (to March 5, 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 District Officer, 1222 N. Main, Ste. 450,

San Antonio, Texas 78212

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

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

Washington, DC 20230

Dated: December 10, 1996.

John J. DaPonte, Jr.,

Executive Secretary.

[FR Doc. 96-32118 Filed 12-17-96; 8:45 am]

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