[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 228 (Monday, November 27, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Page 70694]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-30146]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Docket 58-2000]


Foreign-Trade Zone 20--Hampton Roads, Virginia Area; Application 
for Expansion

    An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones Board 
(the Board) by the Virginia Port Authority (VPA), grantee of Foreign-
Trade Zone (FTZ) 20, requesting authority to expand its zone in and 
adjacent to the Norfolk-Newport News Customs port of entry area. The 
application was submitted pursuant to the provisions of the FTZ Act, as 
amended (19 U.S.C. 81a-81u), and the regulations of the Board (15 CFR 
Part 400). It was formally filed on November 15, 2000.
    FTZ 20 was approved on April 15, 1975 (Board Order 105, 40 FR 
17884,
4/23/75), and expanded on May 8, 1997 (Board Order 887, 62 FR 28446,
5/23/97), and on July 28, 2000 (Board Order 1113, 65 FR 50179, 8/17/
00). The zone project currently consists of the following sites in 
Virginia: Site 2 (9 acres, 65,000 sq. ft.) located at 108 Lakeview 
Parkway, Suffolk; Site 3 (31 acres, 3 parcels) located at 630 Woodlake 
Drive, at 1720 S. Military Highway, and at 575 Woodlake Drive, 
Chesapeake; Site 4 (905 acres) located at Norfolk International 
Terminals, 7737 Hampton Boulevard, Norfolk; Site 5 (242 acres) located 
at Portsmouth Marine Terminal, 2000 Seaboard Avenue, Portsmouth; Site 6 
(184 acres) located at Newport News Marine Terminal, 25th & Warwick 
Boulevard, Newport News; Site 7 (490 acres, 6 parcels) located at 
Warren County Industrial Corridor, Routes 340, 522 and 661, Front 
Royal; Site 8 (394 acres) located at Bridgeway Commerce Park, 
Interstate 664, Suffolk; Site 9 (672 acres) located at Cavalier 
Industrial Park, Interstate 64 and U.S. Route 13, Chesapeake; Site 10 
(26 acres) located at D.D. Jones Transfer & Warehouse, Inc., facility, 
1920 Campostella Road, Chesapeake; Site 11 (177 acres) located at New 
Boone Farm Industrial Park, Interstate 664, Chesapeake; Site 12 (60 
acres) located at PortCentre Commerce Park, Route 264, Portsmouth; Site 
13 (154 acres) located at Suffolk Industrial Park, 595 Carolina Road, 
Suffolk; Site 14 (6,187 acres, 2 parcels) at the Goddard Space Flight 
Center-Wallops Flight Facility, Accomack County; Site 15 (449 acres) at 
the Accomack Airport Industrial Park, U.S. Highway 13 & Parkway Road, 
Melfa (Accomack County); Site 16 (5 acres) located at 525 & 533 Byron 
Street, Norfolk, within the Battlefield Lakes Technical Center (expires 
7/31/2001); and, Site 17 (4 acres) located at 600, 604 and 608 
Greentree Road, Chesapeake, within the Butts Station Commerce Center 
(expires 7/31/2001). (Site 1 has been deleted.) The applicant is 
requesting authority to expand the general-purpose zone to include the 
Battlefield Lakes Technical Center (Site 16) and Butts Station Commerce 
Center (Site 17) on a permanent basis and to include a new site in the 
Eastern Shore region of Virginia: Proposed Site 18 (130 acres)--within 
the 579-acre Port of Cape Charles Sustainable Technologies Industrial 
Park, two miles from U.S. 13 on SR 1108, Bayshore Drive, Northampton 
County, Virginia. The site is owned by the Joint Industrial Development 
Authority of Northampton County and Towns. 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 26, 2001. Rebuttal comments in response to 
material submitted during the foregoing period may be submitted during 
the subsequent 15-day period (February 12, 2001).
    A copy of the application and accompanying exhibits will be 
available for public inspection at each of the following locations:

Virginia Port Authority, 600 World Trade Center, Norfolk, Virginia 
23510-1696
Office of the Executive Secretary, Foreign-Trade Zones Board, Room 
4008, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th and Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, 
Washington, DC 20230.

    Dated: November 15, 2000.
Dennis Puccinelli,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 00-30146 Filed 11-24-00; 8:45 am]
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