Foreign-Trade Zone 49, Newark/Elizabeth, New Jersey Application for Expansion

[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 59 (Monday, March 29, 1999)]
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From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-7522]



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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board
[Docket 11-99]


Foreign-Trade Zone 49, Newark/Elizabeth, New Jersey Application 
for Expansion

    An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones (FTZ) 
Board (the Board) by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, 
grantee of Foreign-Trade Zone 49, requesting authority to expand its 
zone to include the jet fuel storage and distribution system at the 
Newark International Airport in the Cities of Newark and Elizabeth 
(Union and Essex Counties), New Jersey, within the Newark/New York 
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 March 18, 1999.
    FTZ 49 was approved on April 6, 1979 (Board Order 146, 44 FR 22502, 
4/16/79) and expanded on May 26, 1983 (Board Order 211, 48 FR 24958, 6/
3/83); October 23, 1987 (Board Order 365, 52 FR 41599, 10/29/87); and, 
April 19, 1990 (Board Order 470, 55 FR 17478, 4/25/90). The zone 
project currently consists of the following sites: Site 1 (2,100 
acres)--Port Newark/Elizabeth Port Authority Marine Terminal; Site 2 
(41 acres)--Global Terminal and Container Services facility on upper 
New York Bay in Jersey City/Bayonne, NJ; Site 3 (124 acres)--Port 
Authority Industrial Park, adjacent to the Port Newark/Elizabeth Port 
Authority Marine Terminal; and, Site 4 (145-acres)--Port Authority 
AutoMarine Terminal and adjacent 53-acre Greenville Industrial Park on 
Upper New York Bay's Port Jersey Channel in Bayonne and Jersey City, 
NJ.
    The applicant is now requesting authority to expand the general-
purpose zone to include the jet fuel storage and distribution system at 
the Newark International Airport in the Cities of Newark and Elizabeth 
(Union and Essex Counties), New Jersey. The system (40 acres) include 
the bulk jet fuel storage farm (34 acres), Union County; the jet fuel 
hydrant system (60 miles), Union and Essex Counties; and, the jet fuel 
selector (manifold) area (3 acres), Union County. These facilities 
consist primarily of storage tanks, pipelines, pumps, valves, filters, 
meters and related equipment. The facilities are owned by the 
applicant. The jet fuel system activity is currently handled by Ogden 
Aviation Service Company of New Jersey, Inc.
    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 May 28, 1999. Rebuttal comments in response to 
material submitted during the foregoing period may be submitted during 
the subsequent 15-day period (to June 14, 1999).
    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, One Gateway 
Center, 9th Floor, Newark, NJ 07102.
Office of the Executive Secretary, Foreign-Trade Zones Board, Room 
3716, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th & Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, 
Washington, DC 20230.

    Dated: March 18, 1999.
Dennis Puccinelli,
Acting Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 99-7522 Filed 3-26-99; 8:45 am]
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