[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 118 (Monday, June 19, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Page 37959]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-15405]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Docket 28-2000]


Foreign-Trade Zone 29--Louisville, Kentucky 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, requesting authority to 
expand FTZ 29, Louisville, Kentucky, within the Louisville 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 9, 2000.
    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 FR 5992, 
2/7/89); December 15, 1997 (Board Order 941, 62 FR 67044, 12/23/97); 
and, July 17, 1998 (Board Order 995, 63 FR 40878, 7/31/98). The zone 
project currently consists of two sites in the Louisville, Kentucky 
area: Site 1 (1,298 acres)--located within the Riverport Industrial 
Complex; and, (247 acres)--along Johnsontown Road, which is adjacent to 
the Riverport Industrial Complex; Site 2 (593 acres)--located at the 
junction of Gene Snyder Freeway and La Grange Road in eastern Jefferson 
County; Site 3 (142 acres)--U.S. Navy Ordnance Facility, 5403 Southside 
Drive, Louisville; Site 4 (2,311 acres)--consisting of the Louisville 
International Airport and three other airport-related parcels; and, 
Site 5 (70 acres)--the Ashland Inc. Tank Farm and pipelines, 4510 
Algonquin Parkway along the Ohio River, Louisville, which supplies part 
of the airport's fuel system.
    The applicant is now requesting authority to add another parcel to 
Site 1: (130 acres)--Greenbelt and Lower Hunter's Trace Roads, adjacent 
to northern boundary of existing Site 1. The parcel is owned by the 
applicant. No specific manufacturing authority is being requested 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 18, 2000. Rebuttal comments in response to 
material submitted during the foregoing period may be submitted during 
the subsequent 15-day period (to September 5, 2000.)
    A copy of the application and accompanying exhibits will be 
available during this time for public inspection at each of the 
following locations:

U.S. Department of Commerce, Export Assistance Center 601 W. Broadway, 
Room 634B, Louisville, Kentucky 40202.
Office of the Executive Secretary, Foreign-Trade Zone Board, Room 4008, 
U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th & Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., 
Washington, DC 20230.

    Dated: June 12, 2000.
Dennis Puccinelli,
Acting Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 00-15405 Filed 6-16-00; 8:45 am]
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