[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 219 (Monday, November 15, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 61820-61821]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-29745]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board
[Docket 54-99]


Foreign-Trade Zone 21--Charleston, SC, Area; Application for 
Expansion

    An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones (FTZ) 
Board (the Board), by the South Carolina State Ports Authority, grantee 
of Foreign-Trade Zone 21, requesting authority to expand its zone in 
the Charleston, South Carolina, area, within the Charleston 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 
October 28, 1999.
    FTZ 21 was approved on June 12, 1975 (Board Order 106, 40 FR 25613, 
6/17/75) and expanded on February 28, 1995 (Board Order 734, 60 FR 
12735, 3/8/95); June 20, 1996 (Board Order 832, 61 FR 33491, 6/27/96); 
October 23, 1996 (Board Order 850, 61 FR 57383, 11/6/96); and, 
September 5, 1997 (Board Order 918, 62 FR 48591, 9/16/97). The zone 
project includes 13 general-purpose sites in the coastal area of South 
Carolina: Site 1 (134 acres)--Tri-County Industrial Park, Summerville; 
Site 2 (57 acres)--Cainhoy Industrial Park, Wando; Site 3 (160 acres)--
Crowfield Corporate Center, Goose Creek; Site 4 (998 acres)--Low 
Country

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Regional Industrial Park, Early Branch; Site 5 (2,040 acres)--SCSPA's 
terminal complex, Charleston, including 8 acres temporarily transferred 
to a portion of the former Charleston Naval Base and Shipyard, N. 
Charleston; Site 6 (19 acres)--Meadow Street Business Park, Loris; Site 
7 (1,782 acres)--Myrtle Beach International Airport /former Myrtle 
Beach U.S. Air Force Base, Myrtle Beach; Site 8 (82 acres)--within 
Wando Park, Mount Pleasant; Site 9 (548 acres)--Charleston Business 
Park, Charleston; Site 10 (105 acres)--Ashley Industrial Park, N. 
Charleston; Site 11 (459 acres)--Charleston International Commerce 
Park, Charleston; Site 12--(1,120 acres)--Palmetto Commerce Park, N. 
Charleston; and, Site 13--(76 acres)--N. Charleston Convention Center 
complex, N. Charleston.
    The applicant is now requesting authority, on behalf of the 
Charleston Naval Complex Redevelopment Authority, to expand the 
general-purpose zone to include an additional site (Proposed Site 14; 
1,514 acres) located at the former Charleston Naval Base and Shipyard, 
Cosgrove Avenue, North Charleston. The property is owned by the U.S. 
Department of the Navy, which is in the process of conveying the 
property to the Charleston Naval Complex Redevelopment Authority, a 
state agency, as part of a base conversion project. 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 January 14, 2000. Rebuttal comments in response to 
material submitted during the foregoing period may be submitted during 
the subsequent 15-day period January 31, 2000.
    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, 5300 
International Blvd., Suite 201-C, N. Charleston, S.C. 29418
Office of the Executive Secretary, Foreign-Trade Zones Board, Room 
4008, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th & Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, 
Washington, DC 20230

    Dated: November 8, 1999.
Dennis Puccinelli,
Acting Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 99-29745 Filed 11-12-99; 8:45 am]
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