[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 88 (Monday, May 8, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Page 22543]
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[FR Doc No: 95-11254]



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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board
[Docket 16-95]


Proposed Foreign-Trade Zone--Lenoir County, North Carolina 
(Beaufort-Morehead City Customs Port of Entry)

    An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones Board 
(the Board) by the North Carolina Global TransPark Authority, a North 
Carolina public corporation (the TransPark Authority), to establish a 
general-purpose foreign-trade zone in Lenoir County, North Carolina, 
adjacent to the Beaufort-Morehead City 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 April 25, 1995. 
The applicant is authorized to make the proposal under Chapter 55C of 
the North Carolina General Statutes.
    The proposed zone would be the second general-purpose zone in the 
Beaufort-Morehead City Customs port of entry area. The existing zone is 
FTZ 67 in Morehead City, some 60 miles distant (Grantee: North Carolina 
Department of Commerce, Board Order 174, 46 F.R. 22919, April 22, 
1981).
    The proposed zone site (1,170 acres) would cover the Kinston 
Regional Jetport complex, approximately one mile northwest of the City 
of Kinston in Lenoir County. The Jetport is part of the North Carolina 
Global TransPark (TransPark) project, a new 15,000-acre manufacturing, 
distribution, transportation and logistics facility currently under 
development. The Jetport is owned by the City of Kinston and Lenoir 
County, and it is operated by the County of Lenoir-City of Kinston 
Airport Commission. The TransPark Authority has an option to acquire 
the Jetport.
    The application contains evidence of the need for additional zone 
services in the Beaufort-Morehead City port of entry area. Several 
firms have indicated an interest in using zone procedures within the 
proposed project for warehousing/distribution of such items as plastics 
products, cedar wood products, electric forklift trucks, fine china, 
flashlights and lanterns, and cold storage products. Specific 
manufacturing approvals are not being sought at this time. 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.
    As part of the investigation, the Commerce examiner will hold a 
public hearing on June 8, 1995, 9:00 a.m., in the Auditorium, Main 
Building, Lenoir Community College, Intersection of US 58 South and US 
70 East, Kinston, North Carolina.
    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 July 7, 1995. Rebuttal comments in response to 
material submitted during the foregoing period may be submitted during 
the subsequent 15-day period (to July 24, 1995).
    A copy of the application and accompanying exhibits will be 
available during this time for public inspection at the following 
locations:

Neuse Regional Library, Kinston-Lenoir County Public Library, 510 N. 
Queen Street, Kinston, North Carolina 28501
Office of the Executive Secretary, Foreign-Trade Zones Board, Room 
3716, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th & Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., 
Washington, DC 20230.

    Dated: April 28, 1995
John J. Da Ponte, Jr.,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 95-11254 Filed 5-5-95; 8:45 am]
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