[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 2 (Monday, January 5, 1998)]
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From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board
[Docket 82-97]


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 at sites in Chillicothe, Missouri, adjacent to 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 December 15, 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.)--Hunt Midwest surface/underground warehouse complex, 8300 N.E. 
Underground Drive, Kansas City; Site 3 (10,000 acres)--Kansas City 
International Airport complex, Kansas City; Site 4 (416 acres)--
surface/underground business park (Carefree Industrial Park), 1600 N. 
M-291 Highway, Sugar Creek; and, Site 5 (5.75 million sq. ft.)--CARMAR 
Underground Business Park and Surface Industrial Park (1000 acres) 
located at No. 1 Civil War Road, Carthage. An application is currently 
pending with the Board for an additional site in Hermann, Missouri 
(Doc. 44-97).
    The applicant is now requesting authority to further expand the 
general-purpose zone to include eight additional sites (380 acres, 
110,000 sq. ft.) in Chillicothe, Missouri: Site 7a (4 acres, 60,000 sq. 
ft.)--warehouse facility of Midwest Quality Glove, Inc., 835 Industrial 
Road, Chillicothe; Site 7b (11 acres)--Chillicothe-Brunswick Rail Yard, 
Washington Street, Chillicothe; Site 7c (154 acres, 50,000 sq. ft.)--
Chillicothe Industrial Park, Corporate Road, Chillicothe; Site 7d (22 
acres)--CIDC Industrial Park, Brunswick International and Ryan Streets, 
Chillicothe; Site 7e (50 acres)--Beetsma Industrial Park No. 1, Highway 
36, Chillicothe; Site 7f (111 acres)--Beetsma Industrial Park No. 2, 
Highway 36, Chillicothe; Site 7g (22 acres)--West Side Industrial Park, 
Gilbert and Green Streets, Chillicothe; and, Site 7h (6 acres)--an 
industrial development site (adjacent to the John Graves Food Service 
facility), 725 Industrial Road, Chillicothe. The Chillicothe 
Development, Inc. (a not-for-profit organization), in cooperation with 
the City of Chillicothe, will be the FTZ operator of the sites and will 
coordinate development of the facilities for general-purpose zone 
activity. 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 March 6, 1998. Rebuttal comments in response to 
material submitted during the foregoing period may be submitted during 
the subsequent 15-day period to March 23, 1998.
    A copy of the application and accompanying exhibits will be 
available for public inspection at each of the following locations:
Farmers Electric Cooperative, 105 Harvester Road, Chillicothe, MO 
64601.
Office of the Executive Secretary, Foreign-Trade Zones Board, Room 
3716, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th & Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, 
Washington, DC 20230.

    Dated: December 18, 1997.
John J. Da Ponte, Jr.,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 98-28 Filed 1-2-98; 8:45 am]
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