[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 66 (Tuesday, April 7, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Page 16960]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-8980]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board
[Docket 16-98]


Foreign-Trade Zone 14--Little Rock, Arkansas; Application for 
Expansion

    An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones (FTZ) 
Board (the Board) by the Little Rock Port Authority, on behalf of the 
State of Arkansas' Economic Development Commission, grantee of FTZ 14, 
requesting authority to expand its zone in Little Rock, Arkansas, 
within the Little Rock 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 14 was approved on October 4, 1972 (Board Order 90, 37 F.R. 
24853, 11/22/72). The zone was relocated on March 23, 1979 (Board Order 
143, 43 F.R. 19502, 4/3/79) to its present location within the Little 
Rock Port Industrial Park (28 acres).
    This application is requesting authority to expand the existing FTZ 
site (Site 1) and to add two new general-purpose sites to its FTZ 
project as follows: Site 1--add 731 acres to the existing 28 acre zone 
site at the Little Rock Port Industrial Park; Proposed Site 2 (969 
acres)--industrial site adjacent to Proposed Site 1 expansion area at 
the southeast corner of the Little Rock Port Industrial Park, on the 
McClellan-Kerr Arkansas River Navigation System, Little Rock; and, 
Proposed Site 3 (192 acres)--Little Rock National Airport, Adams Field, 
Little Rock. The proposed change would increase Site 1 to 759 acres and 
the zone overall to 1,920 acres. Site 1 is owned by the applicant; Site 
2 is owned by W. B. Isgrig & Sons, Inc., Sea Bright Corporation, Paul 
A. Brinbach and M. L. Walt; and, Site 3 is owned by the City of Little 
Rock. 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, 425 W. Capitol 
Avenue, Suite 700, Little Rock, AR 72201
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 30, 1998.
Dennis Puccinelli,
Acting Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 98-8980 Filed 4-6-98; 8:45 am]
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