[Federal Register: May 12, 1999 (Volume 64, Number 91)]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board
[Docket 17-99]

 
Foreign-Trade Zone 124--LaPlace, LA, Foreign-Trade Subzone 124H-
Bollinger Shipyards Lockport, LLC; Application for Expansion 
(Shipbuilding)

    An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones Board 
(the Board) by the South Louisiana Port Commission, grantee of FTZ 124, 
requesting authority to expand Subzone 124H, at the Bollinger Shipyards 
Lockport, LLC (Bollinger) shipbuilding facility located in Lockport, 
Louisiana, to include four new sites in Lafourche and St. Mary 
Parishes. 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 29, 1999.
    Subzone 124H was approved on July 10, 1998 (Board Order 993, 63 FR 
39069, 7-21-98). The subzone currently consists of one site (250 acres) 
is located at 8365 Louisiana Highway 308, about 4 miles south of 
Lockport (Lafourche Parish), Louisiana. The applicant is now requesting 
authority to expand the subzone to include four additional sites: 
proposed Site 2 (168 acres)--Bollinger Larose, LLC, 1515 Highway 24, 
Larose (Lafourche Parish); proposed Site 3 (67 acres)--Bollinger Marine 
Fabricators, LLC, 816 Bollinger Lane, Amelia (St. Mary's Parish); 
proposed Site 4 (101 acres)--Bollinger Morgan City, LLC, 806 Bollinger 
Lane, Amelia; and, proposed Site 5 (50 acres)--Bollinger Amelia Repair, 
LLC, 606 Ford Industrial Road, Amelia. The Bollinger Lockport facility 
is used for the construction and repair of commercial and government 
vessels under FTZ procedures for domestic and international customers.
    This proposal does not request any new authority under FTZ 
procedures in terms of products or components, but it does involve a 
potential increase in the facility's level of production under FTZ 
procedures. Bollinger will operate the proposed sites as an integral 
part of Subzone 124H.
    The proposed expanded manufacturing activity conducted under FTZ 
procedures would be subject to the ``standard shipyard restriction'' 
applicable to foreign-origin steel mill products (e.g., angles, pipe, 
plate), which requires that Customs duties be paid on such items.
    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 three copies) shall be addressed to 
the Board's Executive Secretary at the address below. The closing 
period for their receipt is July 12, 1999. Rebuttal comments in 
response to material submitted during the foregoing period may be 
submitted during the subsequent 15-day period (to July 26, 1999).
    A copy of the application will be available for public inspection 
at the following locations:

Office of the Port Director, U.S. Customs Service, 110 North Airline 
Avenue, Gramercy, LA 70052
Office of the Executive Secretary, Foreign-Trade Zones Board, Room 
3716, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street & Pennsylvania Avenue, 
NW, Washington, DC 20230

    Dated: April 30, 1999.
Dennis Puccinelli,
Acting Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 99-12016 Filed 5-11-99; 8:45 am]
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