[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 125 (Wednesday, June 28, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 39866-39867]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-16375]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Docket 31-2000]


Foreign-Trade Zone 138--Columbus, Ohio Area; Application for 
Expansion

    An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones (FTZ) 
Board (the Board), by the Rickenbacker Port Authority (RPA), grantee of 
Foreign-Trade Zone 138, requesting authority to expand its zone in the 
Columbus, Ohio area, adjacent to the Columbus 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 20, 2000.
    FTZ 138 was approved on March 13, 1987 (Board Order 351, 52 FR 
9319, 3/24/87) and expanded on February 23, 1994 (Board Order 685, 59 
FR 10783, 3/8/94) and November 9, 1999 (Board Order 1063, 64 FR 63786, 
11/22/99). The general-purpose zone currently consists of two sites: 
Site 1 (4,713 acres--4 parcels)--at the Rickenbacker International 
Airport in Franklin County and Site 2 (136 acres, 3 adjacent parcels)--
industrial park project, McClain Road, Lima (Allen County).
    The applicant is now requesting authority to expand the general-
purpose zone to include four additional sites in Ross, Fairfield, 
Guernsey and Madison Counties, Ohio: Proposed Site 3 (42-acres)--within 
the 90-acre Gateway Interchange Industrial Park (owned by the Ross 
Community Improvement Corporation), State Route 104 and U.S. Route 35, 
Chillicothe (Ross County); Proposed Site 4 (44 acres)--within the 960 
acre Rock Mill Industrial Park (owned by the Lancaster Area Community 
Improvement Corporation), south of Mill Park Drive, Lancaster 
(Fairfield County); Proposed Site 5 (133 acres)--within the 149 acre 
D.O. Hall Business Center (owned by the Community Industrial 
Association of Cambridge-Guernsey County), SR 660 and north of Reitler 
Road, Cambridge

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(Guernsey County); and, Proposed Site 6 (74 acres)--within the Eagleton 
Industrial Park (owned by MTB Corporation and Building Systems 
Transportation), S.R.142 and west of Spring Valley Road, London 
(Madison County). This expansion is being requested as part of a local 
economic development project known as the Greater Columbus Inland Port 
Program. 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 28, 2000. Rebuttal comments in response to 
material submitted during the foregoing period may be submitted during 
the subsequent 15-day period September 11, 2000.
    A copy of the application and accompanying exhibits will be 
available for public inspection at each of the following locations:
    U.S. Department of Commerce, Export Assistance Center, Two 
Nationwide Plaza, Suite 1400, Columbus, Ohio 43215.
    Office of the Executive Secretary, Foreign-Trade Zones Board, Room 
4008, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th & Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., 
Washington, DC 20230.

    Dated: June 22, 2000.
Pierre Duy,
Acting Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 00-16375 Filed 6-27-00; 8:45 am]
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