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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board
[Docket 29-99]

 
Foreign-Trade Zone 146--Lawrence County, Illinois, Area 
Application for Expansion

    An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones (FTZ) 
Board (the Board) by the Bi-State Authority, grantee of FTZ 146, 
Lawrence County (Lawrenceville), Illinois, requesting authority to 
expand its zone to include a site in Effingham, Illinois, adjacent to 
the St. Louis, Missouri, 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 June 2, 1999.
    FTZ 146 was approved on February 11, 1988 (Board Order 371, 53 FR 
5436, 2/24/88). The zone project currently consists of Site 1 (43 
acres)--within the 3,000-acre Mid-America Air Center/Industrial Park 
complex, Route 50, Lawrence County (Lawrenceville), Illinois.
    The applicant is now requesting authority to expand the general-
purpose zone to include an additional site (Proposed Site 2--62 acres, 
3 parcels)--Effingham Industrial Park, Effingham, Illinois. The site 
consists of a 177,994 square foot warehouse (9 acres), owned by 
Agracel, Inc.; a railroad intermodal facility which includes a proposed 
100,000 square foot dock and warehouse and distribution facility (22 
acres), owned by Agracel, Inc. and Effingham Railroad; and, undeveloped 
land (31 acres) which is available for future development, owned by 
American Way Enterprise Park Partners. The site will be operated by 
Total Quality Warehouse (a subsidiary of Agracel, 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 August 16, 1999. Rebuttal comments in response to 
material submitted during the foregoing period may be submitted during 
the subsequent 15-day period (to August 30, 1999).
    A copy of the application and accompanying exhibits will be 
available for public inspection at each of the following locations:

Lawrence County Industrial Development Council, 718 11th Street, Suite 
2, Upper Level, Lawrenceville, IL 62439.
Office of the Executive Secretary, Foreign-Trade Zones Board, Room 
3716, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th & Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, 
Washington, DC 20230.

    Dated: June 7, 1999.
Pierre Duy,
Acting Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 99-15178 Filed 6-14-99; 8:45 am]
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