[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 10 (Friday, January 14, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Page 2375]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-972]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board
[Docket 1-2000]


Foreign-Trade Zone 22--Chicago, IL; Application for Expansion

    An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones Board 
(the Board) by the Illinois International Port District, grantee of FTZ 
22, requesting authority to expand its zone in the Chicago, Illinois 
area, within the Chicago Customs port of entry. The application was 
submitted pursuant to the provisions of the Foreign-Trade Zones Act (19 
U.S.C. 81a-81u), and the regulations of the Board (15 CFR part 400). It 
was formally filed on January 4, 2000.
    FTZ 22 was approved on October 29, 1975 (Board Order 108, 40 FR 
51242; 11/4/75). The zone was expanded in 1987 (Board Order 353, 52 FR 
12217; 4/15/87) and 1992 (Board Order 614, 57 FR 61044 12/23/92). It 
currently consists of four sites in the Chicago, Illinois, area:

    Site 1: (19 acres)--within the Port's 2,250-acre Lake Calumet 
Harbor Terminal facility;
    Site 2: (578 acres)--industrial park at One Diversatech Drive in 
Manteno, Illinois;
    Site 3: (175,000 sq. ft.)--warehouse and open storage facility 
located within the southern portion of a 340,000 square foot 
warehouse complex at 703 Foster Avenue, Bensonville, Illinois, 
operated by Gotoh Distribution Services, Inc. (expires 12/31/00); 
and
    Site 4: (8 acres) at Gerry Drive and Hansen Court in Wood Dale, 
Illinois, 6 miles west of O'Hare International Airport, owned and 
operated by Meiko America, Inc.

    The applicant is now requesting authority to expand Site 3 to 
include the entire Foster Avenue parcel (8 acres) within the zone 
project on a permanent basis. The facility will continue to be operated 
as a FTZ public warehouse facility by Gotoh Distribution Services, Inc.
    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 14, 2000. Rebuttal comments in response to 
material submitted during the foregoing period may be submitted during 
the subsequent 15-day period (to March 29, 2000).
    A copy of the application and accompanying exhibits will be 
available for public inspection at each of the following locations:

Office of the Port Director, U.S. Customs Service, 610 S. Canal Street, 
Chicago, Illinois 60607
Office of the Executive Secretary, Foreign-Trade Zones Board, U.S. 
Department of Commerce, Room 4008, 14th & Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, 
Washington, DC 20230

    Dated: January 5, 2000.
Dennis Puccinelli,
Acting Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 00-972 Filed 1-13-00; 8:45 am]
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