[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 91 (Wednesday, May 12, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Page 25476]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-12016]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Foreign-Trade Zones Board
[Docket 17-99]
Foreign-Trade Zone 124--LaPlace, LA, Foreign-Trade Subzone 124H-
Bollinger Shipyards Lockport, LLC; Application for Expansion
(Shipbuilding)
An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones Board
(the Board) by the South Louisiana Port Commission, grantee of FTZ 124,
requesting authority to expand Subzone 124H, at the Bollinger Shipyards
Lockport, LLC (Bollinger) shipbuilding facility located in Lockport,
Louisiana, to include four new sites in Lafourche and St. Mary
Parishes. 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
April 29, 1999.
Subzone 124H was approved on July 10, 1998 (Board Order 993, 63 FR
39069, 7-21-98). The subzone currently consists of one site (250 acres)
is located at 8365 Louisiana Highway 308, about 4 miles south of
Lockport (Lafourche Parish), Louisiana. The applicant is now requesting
authority to expand the subzone to include four additional sites:
proposed Site 2 (168 acres)--Bollinger Larose, LLC, 1515 Highway 24,
Larose (Lafourche Parish); proposed Site 3 (67 acres)--Bollinger Marine
Fabricators, LLC, 816 Bollinger Lane, Amelia (St. Mary's Parish);
proposed Site 4 (101 acres)--Bollinger Morgan City, LLC, 806 Bollinger
Lane, Amelia; and, proposed Site 5 (50 acres)--Bollinger Amelia Repair,
LLC, 606 Ford Industrial Road, Amelia. The Bollinger Lockport facility
is used for the construction and repair of commercial and government
vessels under FTZ procedures for domestic and international customers.
This proposal does not request any new authority under FTZ
procedures in terms of products or components, but it does involve a
potential increase in the facility's level of production under FTZ
procedures. Bollinger will operate the proposed sites as an integral
part of Subzone 124H.
The proposed expanded manufacturing activity conducted under FTZ
procedures would be subject to the ``standard shipyard restriction''
applicable to foreign-origin steel mill products (e.g., angles, pipe,
plate), which requires that Customs duties be paid on such items.
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 three copies) shall be addressed to
the Board's Executive Secretary at the address below. The closing
period for their receipt is July 12, 1999. Rebuttal comments in
response to material submitted during the foregoing period may be
submitted during the subsequent 15-day period (to July 26, 1999).
A copy of the application will be available for public inspection
at the following locations:
Office of the Port Director, U.S. Customs Service, 110 North Airline
Avenue, Gramercy, LA 70052
Office of the Executive Secretary, Foreign-Trade Zones Board, Room
3716, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street & Pennsylvania Avenue,
NW, Washington, DC 20230
Dated: April 30, 1999.
Dennis Puccinelli,
Acting Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 99-12016 Filed 5-11-99; 8:45 am]
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