Federal Register / Vol. 63, No. 2 / Monday, January 5, 1998 / Notices 205

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Docket 82–97]

Foreign-Trade Zone 15—Kansas City,

Missouri Area Application for

Expansion

An application has been submitted to

the Foreign-Trade Zones Board (the

Board) by the Greater Kansas City

Foreign Trade Zone, Inc., grantee of

Foreign-Trade Zone 15, requesting

authority to expand its zone at sites in

Chillicothe, Missouri, adjacent to the

Kansas City, 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 December 15, 1997.

FTZ 15 was approved on March 23,

1973 (Board Order 93, 38 FR 8622, 4/4/

73) and expanded on October 25, 1974

(Board Order 102, 39 FR 39487, 11/7/

74); February 28, 1996 (Board Order

804, 61 FR 9676, 3/11/96); and, May 31,

1996 (Board Order 824, 61 FR 29529, 6/

11/96). The zone project includes 4

general-purpose sites in the Kansas City,

Missouri, port of entry area: Site 1

(250,000 sq. ft.)—Midland International

Corp. warehouse, 1690 North Topping,

Kansas City; Site 2 (2,815,000 sq. ft.)—

Hunt Midwest surface/underground

warehouse complex, 8300 N.E.

Underground Drive, Kansas City; Site 3

(10,000 acres)—Kansas City

International Airport complex, Kansas

City; Site 4 (416 acres)—surface/

underground business park (Carefree

Industrial Park), 1600 N. M–291

Highway, Sugar Creek; and, Site 5 (5.75

million sq. ft.)—CARMAR Underground

Business Park and Surface Industrial

Park (1000 acres) located at No. 1 Civil

War Road, Carthage. An application is

currently pending with the Board for an

additional site in Hermann, Missouri

(Doc. 44–97).

The applicant is now requesting

authority to further expand the generalpurpose zone to include eight additional

sites (380 acres, 110,000 sq. ft.) in

Chillicothe, Missouri: Site 7a (4 acres,

60,000 sq. ft.)—warehouse facility of

Midwest Quality Glove, Inc., 835

Industrial Road, Chillicothe; Site 7b (11

acres)—Chillicothe-Brunswick Rail

Yard, Washington Street, Chillicothe;

Site 7c (154 acres, 50,000 sq. ft.)—

Chillicothe Industrial Park, Corporate

Road, Chillicothe; Site 7d (22 acres)—

CIDC Industrial Park, Brunswick

International and Ryan Streets,

Chillicothe; Site 7e (50 acres)—Beetsma

Industrial Park No. 1, Highway 36,

Chillicothe; Site 7f (111 acres)—Beetsma

Industrial Park No. 2, Highway 36,

Chillicothe; Site 7g (22 acres)—West

Side Industrial Park, Gilbert and Green

Streets, Chillicothe; and, Site 7h (6

acres)—an industrial development site

(adjacent to the John Graves Food

Service facility), 725 Industrial Road,

Chillicothe. The Chillicothe

Development, Inc. (a not-for-profit

organization), in cooperation with the

City of Chillicothe, will be the FTZ

operator of the sites and will coordinate

development of the facilities for generalpurpose zone activity. 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 March 6, 1998. Rebuttal

comments in response to material

submitted during the foregoing period

may be submitted during the subsequent

15-day period to March 23, 1998.

A copy of the application and

accompanying exhibits will be available

for public inspection at each of the

following locations:

Farmers Electric Cooperative, 105

Harvester Road, Chillicothe, MO

64601.

Office of the Executive Secretary,

Foreign-Trade Zones Board, Room

3716, U.S. Department of Commerce,

14th & Pennsylvania Avenue, NW,

Washington, DC 20230.

Dated: December 18, 1997.

John J. Da Ponte, Jr.,

Executive Secretary.

[FR Doc. 98–28 Filed 1–2–98; 8:45 am]

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign Trade Zones Board

[Order No. 945]

Expansion of Foreign-Trade Zone 185

Culpeper County, Virginia

Pursuant to its authority under the

Foreign-Trade Zones Act of June 18,

1934, as amended (19 U.S.C. 81a–81u),

the Foreign-Trade Zones Board (the

Board) adopts the following Order:

Whereas, an application from the

Culpeper County Chamber of

Commerce, grantee of FTZ 185,

requesting authority to expand FTZ 185

to include an additional site in Culpeper

County, Virginia, was filed by the Board

on April 26, 1996 (FTZ Docket 35–96,

61 FR 21157, 5/9/96);

Whereas, notice inviting public

comment was given in the Federal

Register and the application has been

processed pursuant to the FTZ Act and

the Board’s regulations; and,

Whereas, the Board adopts the

findings and recommendations of the

examiner’s report, and finds that the

requirements of the FTZ Act and the

Board’s regulations are satisfied, and

that the proposal is in the public

interest;

Now, therefore, the Board hereby

orders:

The application to expand FTZ 185 to

include an additional site is approved,

subject to the Act and the Board’s

regulations, including Section 400.28.

Signed at Washington, DC, this 22nd day

of December 1997.

Robert S. LaRussa,

Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Import

Administration, Alternate Chairman, ForeignTrade Zones Board.

Attest:

John J. Da Ponte, Jr.,

Executive Secretary.

[FR Doc. 98–026 Filed 1–2–98; 8:45 am]

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