[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 154 (Thursday, August 10, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Page 40820]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-19822]



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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
[Docket 39-95]


Foreign-Trade Zone 15, Kansas City, Missouri; 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, within the Kansas City, 
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 July 26, 1995.
    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). The zone project includes 3 general-purpose sites in the 
Kansas City, Missouri, port of entry area: Site 1 (250,000 sq. ft.)--
Midland International Corp. warehouse, 1650 North Topping, Kansas City; 
Site 2 (2,815,000 sq. ft.)--surface/underground warehouse complex, 8300 
NE., Underground Drive, Kansas City; and, Site 3 (101,000 sq. ft.)--
Kansas City International Airport, 12600 NW., Prairie View Road, Kansas 
City. An application is currently pending with the Board for an 
additional site in the Sugar Creek/Independence, Missouri area (Docket 
No. 15-95).
    The applicant is now requesting authority to expand Site 3 to 
include the entire Kansas City International Airport facility (10,000 
acres). The property is owned by the Kansas City Aviation Department 
and includes 3 air cargo facilities and jet fuel storage/distribution 
facilities.
    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 (as revised, 56 FR 
50790-50808, 10-8-91), 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 [60 days from date of publication]. Rebuttal 
comments in response to material submitted during the foregoing period 
may be submitted during the subsequent 15-day period (to [75 days from 
date of publication]).
    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 District Office, 601 East 12th Street, Room 
635, Kansas City, Missouri 64106
Office of the Executive Secretary, Foreign-Trade Zones Board, Room 
3716, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th and Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., 
Washington, DC 20230

    Dated: August 2, 1995.
John J. Da Ponte, Jr.,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 95-19822 Filed 8-9-95; 8:45 am]
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