[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 11 (Wednesday, January 17, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Pages 3984-3985]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-1385]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Docket 2-2001]


Foreign-Trade Zone 29--Louisville, KY; Application for Subzone 
ISP Chemicals Inc. (Chemical Plant) Calvert City, KY

    An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones Board 
(the Board) by the Louisville & Jefferson County Riverport Authority, 
grantee of FTZ 29, requesting special-purpose subzone status for the 
chemical plant facilities of ISP Chemicals Inc., located in Calvert 
City, Kentucky. 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 January 9, 2001.
    The facility is located on Highway 95, Calvert City, Kentucky. The 
application is requesting the use of zone procedures only for the 
portion of the facility that processes butanediol (B1D) into 
butyrolactone (BLO). This portion of the facility (4 acres, 525 
employees) has the capacity to produce 210,000 pounds per day of BLO 
(HTS 2932.29.50 and 3824.90.47; duty rate 3.7%). Some 60 percent of the 
B1D is sourced from

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abroad (HTS 2905.39.10; duty rate 7.9%).
    FTZ procedures would exempt ISP from Customs duty payments on the 
foreign components used in export production. Some 35 percent of the 
BLO produced from the imported B1D in 1999 was exported. On its 
domestic sales, ISP would be able to choose the duty rates during 
Customs entry procedures that apply to BLO (3.7%) for the foreign input 
noted above. The request indicates that the savings from FTZ procedures 
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 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 19, 2001. Rebuttal comments in response to material submitted 
during the foregoing period may be submitted during the subsequent 15-
day period to April 3, 2001.
    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, 601 West 
Broadway, Room, 634B, Louisville, KY 40202

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: January 10, 2001.
Dennis Puccinelli,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 01-1385 Filed 1-16-01; 8:45 am]
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