Notice2025-16587
Foreign-Trade Zone 163-Ponce, Puerto Rico; Application for Reorganization/Expansion
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August 29, 2025
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 166 (Friday, August 29, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Page 42183]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-16587]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Foreign-Trade Zones Board
[B-41-2025]
Foreign-Trade Zone 163--Ponce, Puerto Rico; Application for
Reorganization/Expansion
An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones (FTZ)
Board by CODEZOL, C.D., grantee of FTZ 163, requesting authority to
reorganize and expand FTZ 163 in Ponce, Puerto Rico. 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 FTZ
Board (15 CFR part 400). It was formally docketed on August 26, 2025.
FTZ 163 was established by the Board on October 18, 1989 (Board
Order 443, 54 FR 46097, November 1, 1989), and expanded on April 18,
2000 (Board Order 1091, 65 FR 24676, April 27, 2000), on June 9, 2005
(Board Order 1397, 70 FR 36117, June 22, 2005), on July 26, 2006 (Board
Order 1467, 71 FR 44996, August 8, 2006), on November 9, 2006 (Board
Order 1487, 71 FR 67098, November 20, 2006), on June 26, 2009 (Board
Order 1631, 74 FR 34306, July 15, 2009), on July 8, 2010 (Board Orders
1692 and 1693, 75 FR 41801, July 19, 2010), on May 24, 2012 (Board
Order 1830, 77 FR 32929, June 4, 2012), and on December 13, 2018 (Board
Order 2078, 83 FR 65141, December 19, 2018).
FTZ 163 currently consists of thirteen sites (936.984 acres total)
in Puerto Rico: Site 1 (269 acres)--located at the Port of Ponce; Site
2 (183.8 acres)--Peerless Oil & Chemicals, Inc. petroleum terminal
facilities in Pe[ntilde]uelas and Guaynilla; Site 3 (3 acres)--Hato Rey
Distribution Center, located at Angel Buonoma Street #361 and #71, San
Juan; Site 4 (14 acres)--Centro Automatriz Santa Rosa, Inc., State Road
No. 3, Km 140.1, Guayama; Site 5 (256 acres)--Mercedita Industrial
Park, Rt. PR-9 and Las Americas Highway, Ponce; Site 6 (86 acres)--Coto
Laurel Industrial Park, Highways PR-56 and PR-52, Ponce; Site 7 (17.2
acres)--Cesar Castillo warehouse, State Road No. 1, Km 21.1, Guaynabo;
Site 8 (5 acres)--Ayala Warehouse, Inc., 42 Salmon Street, Ponce; Site
10 (5.83 acres)--Colomer & Suarez, Inc., Centro de Distribucion Playa
de Ponce, Building 7, Avenida Santiago de los Caballeros, Ponce; Site
11 (52 acres)--ProCaribe, Road 385, Km 5.4, Bo. Tallaboa,
Pe[ntilde]uelas; Site 12 (5.97 acres)--Yaucono Industrial Park, 2822
Las Americas Avenue, Corner Cuatro Calles, Ponce; Site 13 (10 acres)--
Rio Piedras Distribution Center, Quebrada Arena Industrial Park, PR
Road #1, Km 26.0, San Juan; and, Site 17 (29.184 acres)--Ponce Regional
Distribution Center, 3199 Ave. Santiago de los Caballeros, Ponce.
The applicant is requesting authority to expand Site 1 of the zone
to include an additional 93.91 acres at the Port of Ponce. The
applicant is also requesting to remove Site 6 from the zone. No
authorization for production activity is being requested at this time.
Such requests would be made to the FTZ Board on a case-by-case basis.
In accordance with the FTZ Board's regulations, Camille Evans of
the FTZ Staff is designated examiner to evaluate and analyze the facts
and information presented in the application and case record and to
report findings and recommendations to the FTZ Board.
Public comment is invited from interested parties. Submissions
shall be addressed to the FTZ Board's Executive Secretary and sent to:
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#1a7c6e605a6e687b7e7f347d756c"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="3d5b49477d494f5c5958135a524b">[email protected]</span></a>. The closing period for their receipt is October 28,
2025. Rebuttal comments in response to material submitted during the
foregoing period may be submitted through November 12, 2025.
A copy of the application will be available for public inspection
in the ``Online FTZ Information Section'' section of the FTZ Board's
website, which is accessible via <a href="http://www.trade.gov/ftz">www.trade.gov/ftz</a>.
For further information, contact Camille Evans at
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#bffcded2d6d3d3da91fac9ded1ccffcbcddedbda91d8d0c9"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="4102202c282d2d246f0437202f320135332025246f262e37">[email protected]</span></a>.
Dated: August 26, 2025.
Elizabeth Whiteman,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2025-16587 Filed 8-28-25; 8:45 am]
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