[Federal Register: April 18, 2006 (Volume 71, Number 74)]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Foreign-Trade Zones Board
[Docket 13-2006]
Foreign-Trade Zone 230--Piedmont Triad Area, North Carolina
Application for Expansion
An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones (FTZ)
Board (the Board) by the Piedmont Triad Partnership, grantee of FTZ
230, requesting authority to expand its zone in the Piedmont Triad area
adjacent to the Winston-Salem 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 7, 2006.
FTZ 230 was approved on March 11, 1998 (Board Order 956, 63 FR
13836, 3/23/98). The zone project currently consists of six sites
(3,831 acres) in the Piedmont Triad area: Site 1 (188 acres)--within
the 206-acre Lexington Business Center, Hargrave Road and Business
Interstate 5, Lexington (Davidson County); Site 2 (2,800 acres)--
Piedmont Triad International Airport, adjacent to U.S. 68 and U.S. 421,
Greensboro (Guilford County); Site 3 (267 acres, 3 parcels)--within the
East High Point I-85/I-74 Industrial Corridor in High Point (Davidson
County): Parcel 1 (47 acres)--located at Elon Place and Kivett Drive;
Parcel 2 (110 acres)--located at 3301-3334 Kivett Drive; and, Parcel 3
(110 acres)--Kivett Drive Industrial Park, Kivett Drive and I-85; Site
4 (78 acres)--Salem Business Park, Interstate 40, U.S. Highway 52 and
U.S. Highway 311, Winston-Salem (Forsyth County); Site 5 (125 acres)--
Westwood Industrial Park, adjacent to U.S. Highway 52, Mt. Airy (Surry
County); and, Site 6 (373 acres)--Mount Airy-Surry County Industrial
Park, McKinney Road, Mt. Airy.
The applicant is now requesting authority to expand the zone to
include ten sites (517 acres) in the area: Proposed Site 7 (131
acres)--SouthPoint Business Park, 125 Quality Drive, Mocksville (Davie
County); Proposed Site 8 (9 acres, 2 parcels)--TST Logistics warehouse
facilities located at 533 North Park Avenue (Site 8A--7 acres) and 673
Gilmer Street (Site 8B--2 acres) in Burlington (Alamance County);
Proposed Site 9 (107 acres)--within the 112-acre Piedmont Corporate
Park, located on National Service Road which runs parallel to
Interstate 40, High Point (Guilford County); Proposed Site 10 (149
acres)--within the 163-acre Premier Center located on NC Highway 68 at
the intersection of Premier Drive and Interstate 40, High Point;
Proposed Site 11 (32 acres)--Eagle Hill Business Park consists of four
lots located at 4183, 4189, 4193 and 4197 Eagle Hill Drive, High Point;
Proposed Site 12 (39 acres)--Federal Ridge Business Park consists of
six lots located at 4300, 4328, 4336, 4344, 4380 and 4388 Federal
Drive, High Point; Proposed Site 13 (23 acres)--Green Point Business
Park consists of four lots located at 4500, 4501, 4523 and 4524 Green
Point Drive, High Point; Proposed Site 14 (21 acres)--Lowell's Run
located at 4487 Premier Drive, High Point; Proposed Site 15 (4 acres)--
TST Logistics warehouse facility, 1941 Haw River Hopedale Road, Haw
River (Alamance County); and, Proposed Site 16 (2 acres)--TST Logistics
warehouse facility, 821 West Center Street, Mebane (Alamance County).
The applicant is also requesting authority to remove Site 3-Parcel
2 (110 acres) from zone status due to changed circumstances (new Site 3
total--157 acres). 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 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 Street, 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
Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20230.
The closing period for their receipt is June 19, 2006. Rebuttal
comments in response to material submitted during
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the foregoing period may be submitted during the subsequent 15-day
period (to July 3, 2006).
A copy of the application and accompanying exhibits will be
available during this time 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, 342 North Elm Street, First Floor, Greensboro, NC 27401.
Dated: April 7, 2006.
Dennis Puccinelli,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. E6-5777 Filed 4-17-06; 8:45 am]
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