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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
[Docket 27-96]
Foreign-Trade Zone 168--Dallas/Fort Worth, TX; Application for
Expansion
An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones Board
(the Board) by the Dallas/Fort Worth Maquila Trade Development
Corporation (MTDC), grantee of FTZ 168, requesting authority to expand
its zone in the Fort Worth, Texas, area, within the Dallas/Fort Worth
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 April 3, 1996.
FTZ 168 was approved on November 1, 1990 (Board Order 491, 55 FR
46974, 11/8/90) and reorganized in 1992 and 1994. The zone currently
consists of three sites in the Fort Worth, Texas, area:
Site 1 (24 acres)--an industrial area at Alta Mesa and Will Rogers
Boulevards, Fort Worth;
Site 2 (263 acres)--within the Centreport industrial development,
south of DFW International Airport, Fort Worth;
Site 3 (195 acres)--within the Fossil Creek Business Park, I-35W and
I-820, Fort Worth.
An application is currently pending (Doc. 77-95, 60 FR 61528, 11/
30/95) for a fourth site located at the Regency Business Park, Post &
Paddock Road, Grand Prairie, Texas, west of the City of Dallas.
The applicant is now applying for a fifth site (630 acres) within
the 1,200-acre Mercantile Center, located at I-35 and Meacham
Boulevard, Fort Worth, Texas. The site is owned by Mercantile Partners,
L.P., a Texas Limited Partnership. Zone services will be provided by
the FTZ Operating Company of Texas.
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 June 24, 1996. Rebuttal comments in response to
material submitted during the foregoing period may be submitted during
the subsequent 15-day period (to July 8, 1996).
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 Office, 2050 N. Stemmons Fwy.,
Suite 170, Dallas, Texas 75258
Office of the Executive Secretary, Foreign-Trade Zones Board, U.S.
Department of Commerce, Room 3716, 14th and Pennsylvania Avenue, NW.,
Washington, DC 20230
Dated: April 9, 1996.
John J. Da Ponte, Jr.,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 96-9984 Filed 4-22-96; 8:45 am]