Foreign-Trade Zone 33Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Area Application for Expansion

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Docket 79-97]

Foreign-Trade Zone 33--Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Area Application

for Expansion

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

Board (the Board) by the Regional Industrial Development Corporation of

Southwestern Pennsylvania, grantee of FTZ 33, requesting authority to

expand its zone in the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania area, within the

Pittsburgh 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 November 17, 1997.

Zone 33 was approved on November 9, 1977 (Board Order 124, 42 F.R.

59398, 11/17/77) and expanded on March 16, 1981 (Board Order 172, 46

F.R. 18063, 3/23/81). The general-purpose portion of the FTZ project

currently consists of two sites: Site 1 (43 acres)--within the 500-acre

RIDC Park West, Park West Drive, Findlay Township, Allegheny County;

and, Site 2 (3 acres)--S.H. Bell Company's London Metal Exchange

warehouse facility, One Third Street, Allegheny County, Braddock.

The applicant is now requesting authority to expand both existing

sites and to add two new general-purpose sites to its zone project as

follows: Site 1--add 6 acres to the existing 43-acre Site 1 within the

RIDC Park West complex (includes 3 acres that was previously

transferred to Site 2 in 1994); Site 2--add 6 acres to the existing

Site 2, covering the entire S.H. Bell Company's warehouse facility;

Proposed Site 3 (5,427 acres)--within the 10,000-acre Pittsburgh

International Airport complex (includes an aviation fuel depot

consisting of four storage tanks), approximately 10 miles from

Pittsburgh; and, Proposed Site 4 (140 acres)--Leetsdale Industrial

Park, First and Center Avenues, Leetsdale. The proposed changes to

Sites 1 and 2 would increase these sites to 49 acres and 9 acres

respectively. With the changes, the new FTZ plan would cover some 5,625

acres with 25 buildings (1.4 mil. sq. ft.). The two additional sites

would be used primarily for warehousing/distribution and air cargo

activity. 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 27, 1998. Rebuttal comments in response to

material submitted during the foregoing period may be submitted during

the subsequent 15-day period to February 13, 1998.

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, Federal

Building, Suite 2002, 1000 Liberty Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15222.

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

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

Washington, DC 20230.

Dated: November 20, 1997.

John J. Da Ponte, Jr.,

Executive Secretary.

[FR Doc. 97-31283 Filed 11-26-97; 8:45 am]

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