[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 113 (Monday, June 12, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Page 36887]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-14799]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Docket 25-2000]


Foreign-Trade Zone 158 Jackson, MS--Application for Subzone 
Status: Alliant Aerospace Composite Structures Company Plant (Space 
Launch Vehicle Composite Structures), Iuka, Mississippi

    An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones Board 
(the Board) by the Vicksburg/Jackson Foreign Trade Zone, Inc., grantee 
of FTZ 158, requesting special-purpose subzone status for the space 
launch vehicle composite structures manufacturing plant of Alliant 
Aerospace Composite Structures Company (Alliant), located in Iuka, 
Mississippi. 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 
June 2, 2000.
    The Alliant plant (20 acres/317,000 sq. ft.) is located at within 
the Tri State Commerce Park at 751 County Road 989, Iuka (Tishomingo 
County), Mississippi. The facility (200 employees) is used to produce 
composite foam structural components (thermal shield, center body, 
forward skirt, nose cone) for space launch vehicles (i.e., rockets) 
manufactured by U.S. aerospace firms. The production process involves 
heat forming polymethacrylimide (``Rohacell'') foam, machining, 
layering with carbon fiber and adhesives, pressurization/heat curing, 
and trimming. The only material input purchased from abroad that would 
be admitted to the proposed subzone in foreign status (19 CFR 
146.42(a)) is polymethacrylimide foam--HTSUS# 3921.19.00; duty rate: 
6.5% (representing 8% of finished product value).
    FTZ procedures would exempt Alliant from Customs duty payments on 
the foreign polymethacrylimide foam used in export production. On its 
domestic sales, the company would be able to choose the duty rate that 
applies to finished composite structures (duty free) for the foreign 
foam input noted above. The application indicates that subzone status 
would help improve the plant's international competitiveness.
    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 three copies) shall be addressed to 
the Board's Executive Secretary at the address below. The closing 
period for their receipt is August 11, 2000. Rebuttal comments in 
response to material submitted during the foregoing period may be 
submitted during the subsequent 15-day period (to August 28, 2000).
    A copy of the application and the accompanying exhibits will be 
available for public inspection at each of the following locations:
    U.S. Department of Commerce Export Assistance Center, 704 East. 
Main Street, Raymond, MS 39154.
    Office of the Executive Secretary, Foreign-Trade Zones Board, U.S. 
Department of Commerce, Room 4008, 14th Street & Constitution Avenue, 
NW, Washington, DC 20230-0001.

    Dated: June 2, 2000.
Dennis Puccinelli,
Acting Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 00-14799 Filed 6-9-00; 8:45 am]
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