[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 120 (Tuesday, June 23, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 34144-34145]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-16683]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board
[Docket 31-98]


Foreign-Trade Zone 40, Cleveland, Ohio, Area; Application for 
Expansion

    An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones (FTZ) 
Board (the Board) by the Cleveland-Cuyahoga County Port Authority, 
grantee of FTZ 40, requesting authority to expand its zone in the 
Cleveland, Ohio, area, within the Cleveland Customs port 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 June 15, 1998.

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    FTZ 40 was approved on September 29, 1978 (Board Order 135, 43 F.R. 
46886, 10/11/78) and expanded in June 1982 (Board Order 194, 47 F.R. 
27579, 6/25/82); April 1992 (Board Order 574, 57 F.R. 13694, 4/17/92); 
and, February 1997 (Board Order 870, 62 F.R. 7750, 2/20/97). The zone 
project currently consists of 5 sites in the Cleveland, Ohio, area: 
Site 1 (94 acres)--port of Cleveland complex on Lake Erie at the mouth 
of the Cuyahoga River, Cleveland; Site 2 (175 acres)--the IX Center 
(formerly the ``Cleveland Tank Plant''), in Brook Park, Ohio, adjacent 
to Cleveland Hopkins International Airport; Site 3 (1,900 acres)--
Cleveland Hopkins International Airport complex, Cleveland; Site 4 (450 
acres)--Burke Lakefront Airport, 1501 North Marginal Road, Cleveland, 
and Site 5 (97 acres)--within the Emerald Valley Business Park at the 
southeast corner of Cochran Road and Beaver Meadow Parkway, Glenwillow.
    The applicant is now requesting authority to expand existing Site 5 
to include the entire Emerald Valley Business Park (298 acres, includes 
existing areas) in Glenwillow and to include 3 new sites (160 acres) in 
Cuyahoga County (Proposed Sites 6-8): Proposed Site 6 (30 acres)--
Collinwood site, South Waterloo (South Marginal) Road and East 152nd 
Street, Cleveland; Proposed Site 7 (47 acres)--Water Tower Industrial 
Park, Coit Road and East 140th Street, Cleveland; and, Proposed Site 8 
(83 acres)--Strongsville Industrial Park, Royalton Road (State Route 
82), Strongsville. Proposed Sites 5, 6 and 8 are privately owned, while 
Proposed Site 7 is owned by the State of Ohio. No specific 
manufacturing requests are bing 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 24, 1998. Rebuttal comments in response to 
material submitted during the foregoing period may be submitted during 
the subsequent 15-day period (to September 8, 1998).
    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, 600 Superior 
Avenue, East, #700 Cleveland, Ohio 44114
Office of the Executive Secretary, Foreign-Trade Zones Board, Room 
3716, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th & Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, 
Washington, DC 20230.

    Dated: June 16, 1998.
Dennis Puccinelli,
Acting Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 98-16683 Filed 6-22-98; 8:45 am]
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