[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 66 (Tuesday, April 7, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Page 16962]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-8978]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board
[Docket 14-98]


Foreign-Trade Zone 78, Nashville, Tennessee Area Application for 
Expansion

    An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones (FTZ) 
Board (the Board) by the Metropolitan Nashville-Davidson County Port 
Authority, grantee of FTZ 78, Nashville, Tennessee, requesting 
authority to expand its zone at two sites in the Nashville, Tennessee 
area, within the Nashville 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 March 27, 1998.
    FTZ 78 was approved on April 2, 1982 (Board Order 190, 47 FR 16191, 
4/15/82). The zone project currently consists of the following sites: 
Site 1 (52,000 sq. ft.)--within a 200,000 sq. ft. warehouse, 750 Cowan 
Street, Nashville; Site 2 (63 acres)--within the 2,000-acre Cockrill 
Bend Industrial Park, Nashville; and, Site 3 (100,000 sq. ft.)--within 
a 300,000 sq. ft. warehouse, 323 Mason Road, La Vergne.
    This application is requesting authority to expand the general-
purpose zone to include two new sites (58 acres) in Goodlettsville, 
Tennessee (Nashville area) (Proposed Sites 4 and 5): Proposed Site 4 
(39 acres)--Space Park North Industrial Park, 1000 Cartwright Street, 
Goodlettsville; and, Proposed Site 5 (19 acres)--Old Stone Bridge 
Industrial Park, Old Stone Bridge, Goodlettsville. Both facilities are 
owned by ATREPO Nashville, Inc. Space is available at both parks for a 
variety of 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 June 8, 1998. Rebuttal comments in response to 
material submitted during the foregoing period may be submitted during 
the subsequent 15-day period (to June 22, 1998).
    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, Export Assistance Center, Parkway Towers, 
Suite 114, 404 James Robertson Parkway, Nashville, TN 37219
Office of the Executive Secretary, Foreign-Trade Zones Board, Room 
3716, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th & Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., 
Washington, DC 20230

    Dated: March 27, 1998.
Dennis Puccinelli,
Acting Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 98-8978 Filed 4-6-98; 8:45 am]
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