[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 11 (Friday, January 16, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 2660-2661]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-1162]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board
[Docket 1-98]


Foreign-Trade Zone 92, Harrison County, Mississippi Area 
Application for Expansion

    An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones (FTZ) 
Board (the Board) by the Greater Gulfport/Biloxi Foreign-Trade Zone, 
Inc., grantee of FTZ 92, based in Harrison County, Mississippi, 
requesting authority to expand its zone at sites in Jackson and Hancock 
Counties, Mississippi, within the Pascagoula and Gulfport Customs ports 
of entry. The application was submitted pursuant to the provisions of 
the FTZ Act, as amended (19 U.S.C. 81a-81u), and the regulations of the 
Board (15 CFR Part 400). It was formally filed on January 6, 1998.
    FTZ 92 was approved on November 4, 1983 (Board Order 232, 48 FR 
52107, 11/16/83) and expanded on August 17, 1992 (Board Order 595, 57 
FR 39388, 8/31/97). The zone project currently consists of the 
following sites in Harrison County: Site 1 (167 acres)--Port of 
Gulfport complex, Highway 90 and 30th Avenue, Gilbert; Site 2 (717 
acres)--industrial area within the Gulfport/Biloxi Regional Airport, 
Gulfport; Site 3 (2,471 acres)--Bernard Bayou Industrial Park, 1 mile 
north of Gulfport, Harrison County; and, Site 4 (484 acres)--Long Beach 
Industrial Park, 5 miles west of Gulfport between Espy Avenue and Beat 
Line Road, Long Beach.
    The applicant, in a major revision to its zone plan, now requests 
authority to expand the general-purpose zone to include nine new sites 
(1,731 acres) in Jackson and Hancock Counties (Proposed Sites 5-13): 
Site 5 (254 acres)--Trent C. Lott International Airport, 8301 
Saracennia Road, Moss Point (Jackson County); Site 6 (148 acres)--
Greenwood Island, Bayou Casotte area of Pascagoula (Jackson County); 
Site 7 (193 acres)--Port of Pascagoula (2 harbors)--West Harbor (112 
acres), located on the Pascagoula River, and East Harbor (81 acres), 
located in the Bayou Casotte industrial area, Pascagoula (Jackson 
County); Site 8 (283 acres)--John C. Stennis Industrial Park (formerly 
the Jackson County Airport), Highway 611/63, adjacent to the Bayou 
Casotte Harbor's deep water port facility, Pascagoula (Jackson County); 
Site 9 (13 acres)--Heinz facility, east bank of the Pascagoula River, 
across from the Port of Pascagoula West Harbor, Pascagoula (Jackson 
County); Site 10 (65 acres)--within the

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300-acre Sunplex Industrial Park, Mississippi Highway 57 between 
Interstate 10 and US Highway 90, within one mile of the city limits of 
Ocean Springs (Jackson County); Site 11 (621 acres)--within the 3,600-
acre Port Bienville Industrial Park, mouth of the Pearl River, 2.7 
miles south of U.S. Highway 90, Pearlington (Hancock County); Site 12 
(87 acres)--Mississippi Army Ammunition Plant (part of the 14,000-acre 
John C. Stennis Space Center), 4 miles north of Interstate 10, State 
Highway 607, Kiln, (Hancock County); and, Site 13 (67 acres)--Stennis 
International Airport, Kiln (Hancock County). All of these sites are 
owned or controlled by either the Jackson County Port Authority or the 
Hancock County Port and Harbor Commission. 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 17, 1998. Rebuttal comments in response to 
material submitted during the foregoing period may be submitted during 
the subsequent 15-day period to April 1, 1998.
    A copy of the application and accompanying exhibits will be 
available for public inspection at each of the following locations:

Gulf Regional Planning Commission, 1232 Pass Road, Gulfport, MS 39501
Office of the Executive Secretary, Foreign-Trade Zones Board, Room 
3716, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th and Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., 
Washington, DC 20230

    Dated: January 7, 1998.
Dennis Puccinelli,
Acting Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 98-1162 Filed 1-15-98; 8:45 am]
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