[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 46 (Thursday, March 8, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Page 13878]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-5774]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Docket 13-2001]


Foreign-Trade Zone 77--Memphis, Tennessee; Application for 
Expansion and Reorganization

    An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones (FTZ) 
Board (the Board), by the City of Memphis, Tennessee, grantee of 
Foreign-Trade Zone 77, requesting authority to expand its zone to 
include an additional site in Memphis, Tennessee, within the Memphis 
Customs port of entry, and to reorganize existing zone sites. 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 February 27, 
2001.
    FTZ 77 was approved on April 2, 1982 (Board Order 189, 47 FR 16191, 
4/15/82) and expanded on June 17, 1992 (Board Order 582, 57 FR 28483, 
6/25/92). The general-purpose zone project currently consists of the 
following sites: Site 1 (22 acres)--within the Port of Memphis at the 
intersection of Port Street and Channel Avenue, Memphis; Site 2 (2 
parcels, 410,000 sq. ft.)--Parcel 1 (115,000 sq. ft) located at 4594 
Lamar Avenue, Memphis, and Parcel 2 (295,000 sq. ft.) located within a 
warehouse facility at 5000 East Raines Road, Memphis; and, Site 3 (121 
acres)--Parcel 1 (12 acres), warehouse facility at 4834 South 
Mendenhall Road, Parcel 2 (106-acres), warehouse facility at 4836 
Hickory Hill Road, Memphis, and, Parcel 3 (125,000 sq. ft.), warehouse 
facility at 227 Highway 45 West, Humboldt.
    The applicant is now requesting authority to expand the general-
purpose zone to include an additional site (Proposed Site 4) in 
Memphis, and to delete certain sites which are currently inactive. 
Proposed Site 4 (397 acres) is located at the Memphis Depot Business 
Park (formerly the Memphis Defense Depot), 2163 Airways Boulevard, 
Memphis. The U.S. Army is in the process of transferring property 
within the business park to the Depot Redevelopment Corporation, an 
agency established by the City of Memphis and Shelby County to operate 
and promote the redevelopment of the site. The applicant is also 
requesting that Parcel 1 within Site 2 and Parcel 1 within Site 3 be 
deleted from the zone project due to changed circumstances. 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 May 7, 2001. Rebuttal comments in response to 
material submitted during the foregoing period may be submitted during 
the subsequent 15-day period (to May 22, 2001).
    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, Buckman Hall, 
Suite 348, 650 East Parkway South, Memphis, TN 38104.
Office of the Executive Secretary, Foreign-Trade Zones Board, Room 
4008, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th & Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., 
Washington, DC 20230.

    Dated: February 28, 2001.
Dennis Puccinelli,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 01-5774 Filed 3-7-01; 8:45 am]
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