[Federal Register: April 15, 2003 (Volume 68, Number 72)]
[Notices]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Foreign-Trade Zones Board
[Docket 18-2003]
Foreign-Trade Zone 29--Louisville, KY, Area Application for
Expansion
An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones (FTZ)
Board (the Board), by the Louisville and Jefferson County Riverport
Authority, grantee of Foreign-Trade Zone 29, Louisville, Kentucky,
requesting authority to expand its zone at sites within the Owensboro,
Kentucky-Evansville, Indiana, 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 4, 2003.
FTZ 29 currently serves businesses in the Louisville Customs port
of entry area. The proposed change would expand the FTZ 29 plan to also
serve businesses in the Kentucky portion of the Owensboro-Evansville
Customs port of entry, which currently has no existing zone sites.
FTZ 29 was approved on May 26, 1977 (Board Order 118, 42 FR 29323,
6/8/77) and expanded on January 31, 1989 (Board Order 429, 54 F.R.
5992, 2/7/89); December 15, 1997 (Board Order 941, 62 FR 67044, 12/23/
97); July 17, 1998 (Board Order 995, 63 FR 40878, 7/31/98); December
11, 2000 (Board Order 1133, 65 FR 79802, 12/20/00); and, January 15,
2002 (Board Order 1204, 67 FR 4391, 1/30/02). The zone project
currently consists of the following sites in the Louisville, Kentucky,
area: Site 1 (1,674 acres)--1,668 acres within the Riverport Industrial
complex and 6 acres at 3401 Jewell Avenue, Louisville; Site 2 (593
acres)--located at the junction of Gene Snyder Freeway and La Grange
Road, eastern Jefferson County; Site 3 (142 acres)--United States Navy
Ordnance facility, 5403 Southside Drive, Louisville; Site 4 (2,311
acres)--consisting of the Louisville International Airport and three
other airport-related parcels; Site 5 (70 acres)--Marathon Ashland
Petroleum LLC Tank Farm and pipelines, 4510 Algonquin Parkway along the
Ohio River, Louisville; and Site 6 (316 acres)--Cedar Grove Business
Park, Highway 480, near Interstate 65, Bullitt County.
The applicant is now requesting authority to expand the general-
purpose zone to include two new sites in Henderson and Owensboro,
Kentucky: Proposed Site 7 (273 acres)--Henderson County Riverport
Authority facilities, 6200 Riverport Road, Henderson; and, Proposed
Site 8 (182 acres)--Owensboro Riverport Authority facilities, 2300
Harbor Road, Owensboro. Proposed Site 7 is owned by the Henderson
County Riverport Authority and the Abbott Family Farm. Proposed Site 8
is owned by the Owensboro Riverport Authority. No specific
manufacturing requests are being made at this time. Such requests
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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 one of the following addresses:
1. Submissions via Express/Package Delivery Services: Foreign-Trade
Zones Board, U.S. Department of Commerce, Franklin Court Building--
Suite 4100W, 1099--14th St. NW., Washington, DC 20005; or
2. Submissions via the U.S. Postal Service: Foreign-Trade Zones
Board, U.S. Department of Commerce, FCB--Suite 4100W, 1401 Constitution
Ave. NW., Washington, DC 20230.
The closing period for their receipt is June 16, 2003. Rebuttal
comments in response to material submitted during the foregoing period
may be submitted during the subsequent 15-day period (to June 30,
2003).
A copy of the application and accompanying exhibits will be
available for public inspection at the Office of the Foreign-Trade
Zones Board's Executive Secretary at the first address listed above,
and at the U.S. Department of Commerce, Export Assistance Center, Gene
Snyder Courthouse Building, 601 West Broadway, Room 634B, Louisville,
Kentucky 40402.
Dated: April 8 2003.
Dennis Puccinelli,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 03-9206 Filed 4-14-03; 8:45 am]