[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 66 (Tuesday, April 7, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Page 16960]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-8980]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Foreign-Trade Zones Board
[Docket 16-98]
Foreign-Trade Zone 14--Little Rock, Arkansas; Application for
Expansion
An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones (FTZ)
Board (the Board) by the Little Rock Port Authority, on behalf of the
State of Arkansas' Economic Development Commission, grantee of FTZ 14,
requesting authority to expand its zone in Little Rock, Arkansas,
within the Little Rock 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 March 27, 1998.
FTZ 14 was approved on October 4, 1972 (Board Order 90, 37 F.R.
24853, 11/22/72). The zone was relocated on March 23, 1979 (Board Order
143, 43 F.R. 19502, 4/3/79) to its present location within the Little
Rock Port Industrial Park (28 acres).
This application is requesting authority to expand the existing FTZ
site (Site 1) and to add two new general-purpose sites to its FTZ
project as follows: Site 1--add 731 acres to the existing 28 acre zone
site at the Little Rock Port Industrial Park; Proposed Site 2 (969
acres)--industrial site adjacent to Proposed Site 1 expansion area at
the southeast corner of the Little Rock Port Industrial Park, on the
McClellan-Kerr Arkansas River Navigation System, Little Rock; and,
Proposed Site 3 (192 acres)--Little Rock National Airport, Adams Field,
Little Rock. The proposed change would increase Site 1 to 759 acres and
the zone overall to 1,920 acres. Site 1 is owned by the applicant; Site
2 is owned by W. B. Isgrig & Sons, Inc., Sea Bright Corporation, Paul
A. Brinbach and M. L. Walt; and, Site 3 is owned by the City of Little
Rock. 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 June 8, 1998. Rebuttal comments in response to
material submitted during the foregoing period may be submitted during
the subsequent 15-day period to June 22, 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, 425 W. Capitol
Avenue, Suite 700, Little Rock, AR 72201
Office of the Executive Secretary, Foreign-Trade Zones Board, Room
3716, U.S. Department of Commerce 14th & Pennsylvania Avenue, NW,
Washington, DC 20230.
Dated: March 30, 1998.
Dennis Puccinelli,
Acting Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 98-8980 Filed 4-6-98; 8:45 am]
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