[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 133 (Wednesday, July 11, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Pages 36250-36251]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-17373]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Docket 30-2001]


Foreign-Trade Zone 57--Charlotte, North Carolina; Application for 
Expansion

    An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones Board 
(the Board) by the North Carolina Department of Commerce, grantee of 
FTZ 57, requesting authority to expand its general-purpose zone site to 
include additional sites in Alexander, Burke, Caldwell and Catawba 
Counties, North Carolina. 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 July 3, 2001.
    FTZ 57 was approved on April 28, 1980 (Board Order 156, 45 FR 
30466, 5/8/80) and expanded on September 23, 1982 (Board Order 199, 47 
FR 43103, 9/30/82). The zone project currently includes four general-
purpose zone sites: Site 1 (100,000 sq. ft.)--at 11425 Granite Street, 
Mecklenburg County; Site 1A (23 acres)--located at 1411 and 1701 
Continental Boulevard, Mecklenburg County; Site 2 (137,368 sq. ft.)--
located at 14620 Carowinds Boulevard, Mecklenburg County; and, Site 3 
(26 acres)--located at International Airport Center, 3401 International 
Airport Drive, Charlotte.
    The applicant is now requesting authority for a major change to its 
zone plan that would extend zone services on a regional basis. The 
proposal involves expanding its zone project to include eight sites 
(3,144 acres) in the Counties of Burke, Caldwell, Alexander and 
Catawba: Proposed Site 4 (1,600 acres, 14 parcels)--proposed industrial 
park (Great Meadows), located at Interstate 40 in Burke County; 
Proposed Site 5 (78 acres, 2 parcels): Parcel 1 (40 acres)--Lenoir 
Business Park and Parcel 2 (38 acres)--J&M Industrial Park, located on 
NC Highway 18 in Lenoir (Caldwell County); Proposed Site 6 (160 
acres)--Alexander County Rail Park, located on NC Highway 90, one mile 
east of Taylorsville (Alexander County); Proposed Site 7 (655 acres)--
Hickory Regional Airport/Lakepark, located on Clement Boulevard in the 
City of Hickory (Catawba/Burke Counties); Proposed Site 8 (1 acre)--
Conwareco Logistics, Inc., warehouse facility, 1070 Main Avenue NW in 
Hickory (Catawba County); Proposed Site 9 (9 acres, 3 parcels): Parcel 
1 (4 acres)--Diamante Group LLC warehouse/industrial facility at 406 
20th Street SE; Parcel 2 (2 acres)--LT2 at 504 20th Street SE; and, 
Parcel 3 (3 acres)--Hickory Throwing Company at 520 20th Street SE in 
Hickory (Catawba County); Proposed Site 10 (330 acres)--within the 700-
acre Conover West Business Park in Hickory (Catawba County); and, 
Proposed Site 11 (311 acres, 11 parcels)--City of Newton industrial 
park, Newton (Catawba County). 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 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 
September 10, 2001. Rebuttal comments in response to material submitted 
during the foregoing period may be submitted during the subsequent 15-
day period (to September 24, 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, 521 East 
Morehead Street, Suite 435, Charlotte, NC 28202
Office of the Executive Secretary, Foreign-Trade Zones Board, U.S. 
Department of Commerce 14th & Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 
20230


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    Dated: July 3, 2001.
Dennis Puccinelli,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 01-17373 Filed 7-10-01; 8:45 am]
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