[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 115 (Monday, June 16, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 32582-32583]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-15748]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Foreign-Trade Zones Board
[Docket 44-97]
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 in the Kansas City, Missouri area, adjacent to the St. Louis,
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 May 29, 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.)--surface/underground warehouse complex, 8300 N.E. Underground
Drive, Kansas City; Site 3 (10,000 acres)--Kansas City International
Airport complex, Kansas City; and, Site 4 (416 acres)--surface/
underground business park (Carefree Industrial Park), 1600 N. M-291
Highway, Sugar Creek. An application is currently pending with the
Board for an additional site in Carthage, Missouri (Docket 7-97).
The applicant is now requesting authority to further expand the
general-purpose zone to include an additional site: (proposed Site 6
(28,000 sq. ft., 11 acres)--Laser Light Technologies, Inc. facility,
located within the Hermann Industrial Park, 5 Danuser Drive, Hermann.
The facility is to provide laser engraving, marking and bar coding
services, as well as warehousing, storage and product distribution
services. 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.
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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 15, 1997. Rebuttal comments in response to material
submitted during the foregoing period may be submitted during the
subsequent 15-day period (to September 2, 1997).
A copy of the application and accompanying exhibits will be
available for public inspection at each of the following locations:
Office of the City of Hermann, Administrator, 207 Schiller Street,
Hermann, MO 65041
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 3, 1997.
John J. Da Ponte, Jr.,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 97-15748 Filed 6-13-97; 8:45 am]
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