[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 122 (Friday, June 25, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 34188-34189]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-16246]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board
[Order No. 1042]


Expansion of Foreign-Trade Zone 15; Kansas City, MO

    Pursuant to its authority under the Foreign-Trade Zones Act of June 
18, 1934, as amended (19 U.S.C. 81a-81u), the Foreign-Trade Zones Board 
(the Board) adopts the following Order:
    Whereas, the Greater Kansas City Foreign-Trade Zone, Inc., grantee 
of Foreign-Trade Zone 15, submitted an application to the Board for 
authority to expand FTZ 15 to include eight sites in Chillicothe, 
Missouri, within the Kansas City Customs port of entry (FTZ Docket 82-
97, filed 12/15/97; amended 11/8/98 to withdraw three of the proposed 
sites);
    Whereas, notice inviting public comment was given in the Federal 
Register (63 FR 205, 1/5/98) and the application has been processed 
pursuant to the FTZ Act and the Board's regulations; and,
    Whereas, the Board adopts the findings and recommendations of the 
examiner's report, and finds that the requirements of the FTZ Act and 
Board's regulations would be satisfied, and that the proposal would be 
in the public interest if approval is limited to three sites subject to 
certain conditions;
    Now, Therefore, the Board hereby orders:
    The application to expand FTZ 15 is approved in part, subject to 
the Act and the Board's regulations, including Section 400.28, and 
further subject to the following limitations and restrictions:
    1. Approval is limited to Sites 7a (MidWest Quality Gloves, Inc.), 
7b (Chillicothe-Brunswick Rail Yard), and 7c (Chillicothe Industrial 
Park);

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    2. Site 7a is approved for a period ending May 31, 2002;
    3. Authority for each of Sites 7b and 7c shall be subject to a 
sunset provision that terminates the authority for the site on May 31, 
2004, unless the site is activated pursuant to 19 CFR Part 146 of the 
U.S. Customs Service regulations;
    4. Sites 7d, 7e, 7f, 7g and 7h are not approved; and,
    5. The overall zone project is subject to the Board's standard 
2,000-acre activation limit.

    Signed at Washington, DC, this 17th day of June, 1999.
Robert S. LaRussa,
Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Import Administration, Alternate 
Chairman, Foreign-Trade Zones Board.
    Attest:
Dennis Puccinelli,
Acting Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 99-16246 Filed 6-24-99; 8:45 am]
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