DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Foreign-Trade Zones Board
[Docket No. 16-86]
51 FR 18639
May 21, 1986
Proposed Foreign-Trade Zone; West Sacramento, Yolo County, CA; Application
and Public Hearing
TEXT: An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones Board
(the Board) by the Sacramento-Yolo Port District (the Port), a political
subdivision of the State of California, requesting authority to establish a
general-purpose foreign-trade zone in West Sacramento, Yolo County,
California, within the San Francisco-Oakland 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 May 8, 1986. The applicant is
authorized to make this proposal under section 6302 of the Government Code
of California.
The proposed foreign-trade zone involves a 16-acre parcel within the
Port's 500-acre terminal complex at Wharf No. 2, Terminal St. and Industrial
Blvd. An existing warehouse is available for inital zone activity and
additional facilities are planned. The zone will be operated by the Port.
The application contains evidence of the need for zone services in the
Sacramento area. Specific interest has been expressed for activity involving
the storage and distribution of machines and machinery parts. No
manufacturing approvals are being sought at this time. Such requests would
be made to the Board on a case-by-case basis.
In accordance with the Board's regulations, an examiners committee has
been appointed to investigate the application and report to the Board. The
committee consists of: Dennis Puccinelli (Chairman), Foreign-Trade Zones
Staff, U.S. Department of Commerce, Washington, DC 20230; Paul R. Andrews,
District Director, U.S. Customs Service, Pacific Region, 555 Battery St.,
San Francisco, CA 94126; and Colonel Wayne J. Scholl, District Engineer,
U.S. Army Engineer District Sacramento, 670 Capitol Mall, Sacramento, CA
95814.
As part of its investigation, the examiners committee will hold a public
hearing on June 19, 1986, beginning at 9:00 a.m., in the Sacramento City
Council Chambers, 915 "I" Street, Sacramento.
Interested parties are invited to present their views at the hearing.
Persons wishing to testify should notify the Board's Executive Secretary
in writing at the address below or by phone (202/377-2862) by June 12.
Instead of an oral presentation, written statements may be submitted in
accordance with the Board's regulations to the examiners committee, care
of the Executive Secretary, at any time from the date of this notice
through July 21, 1986.
A copy of the application and accompanying exhibits will be available
during this time for public inspection at each of the following locations:
Port Executive Offices,
Port of Sacramento,
World Trade Center,
2101 Stone Blvd.,
West Sacramento, CA 95691.
Office of the Executive Secretary,
Foreign-Trade Zones Board,
U.S. Department of Commerce, Room 1529,
14th and Pennsylvania Ave., NW.,
Washington, DC 20230.
Dated: May 15, 1986.
John J. Da Ponte, Jr.,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 86-11433 Filed 5-20-86; 8:45 am]
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