DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Foreign-Trade Zones Board
[Docket No. 8-87]
52 FR 28581
July 31, 1987
Foreign-Trade Zone 106, Oklahoma City, OK; Application for Expansion
TEXT: An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones Board
(the Board) by the Port Authority of Oklahoma City (Port Authority),
grantee of Foreign-Trade Zone 106, requesting authority to expand the zone
to include 4 sites in Oklahoma City, within the Oklahoma City 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 July 15, 1987
On September 14, 1984, the Board authorized the Port Authority to
establish a foreign-trade zone in Oklahoma City (Board Order 271, 49 FR
37133, 9/21/84). The project currently covers 640 acres at the Will Rogers
World Airport.
The expansion would involve a privately-owned site and 3 tracts of airport
property totalling 236 acres. The three airport tracts are designated as
Tracts 1, 3, and 5. The private site is owned by Aero-Meridan Corp. and
consists of a 100,000 sq. ft. warehouse and 6 acres of land located at 3501
Melcat Drive in the Lakeside Business Park. Tract 1 of the 3-tract airport
property is 143 acres at SW. 59th St. and Portland Ave., adjacent to the
northwest corner of the existing zone. Tract 3 is 31 acres at Highway 152
and MacArthur Blvd. and Tract 5 is 62 acres at Portland Ave. and Highway 62.
A manufacturing operation for Organon Teknika, a manufacturer of medical
devices, is also included in the application. The company produces dialysis
machines, absorbent cartridges and spare parts for all manufactured devices,
employing 200 workers. Materials sourced abroad include chemicals, medical
equipment, dialyzers and disposable blood sets. Manufacturing under zone
procedures would be for export only.
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: Joseph Lowry (Chairman), Foreign-Trade Zones Staff,
U.S. Department of Commerce, Washington, DC 20230; Donald Gough, Deputy
Assistant Regional Commissioner, U.S. Customs Service, Southwest Region,
5850 San Felipe St., Houston, TX 77057; and Colonel Franklin T. Tilton,
District Engineer, U.S. Army Engineer District Tulsa, P.O. Box 61, Tulsa,
OK 74121.
Comments concerning the proposed expansion are invited in writing from
interested parties. They should be addressed to the Board's Executive
Secretary at the address below and postmarked on or before September 11,
1987.
A copy of the application is available for public inspection at each
of the following locations:
Port Director's Office,
U.S. Customs Service,
Will Rogers World Airport,
P.O. Box 599406,
Oklahoma City, OK 73159
Office of the Executive Secretary,
Foreign-Trade Zones Board,
U.S. Department of Commerce,
14th & Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., Room 1529,
Washington, DC 20230.
Dated: July 24, 1987.
Dennis Puccinelli,
Acting Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 87-17430 Filed 7-30-87; 8:45 am]
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