[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 139 (Thursday, July 19, 2001)]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Docket 32-2001]


Foreign-Trade Zone 15--Kansas City, MO, Area Application for 
Expansion

    An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones Board 
(the Board) by the Greater Kansas City Foreign Trade Zone, Inc., 
grantee of Foreign-Trade Zone 15, requesting authority to expand its 
zone in the Kansas City, Missouri, area, adjacent to the Kansas City, 
Missouri, Customs port of entry. 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 6, 2001.
    FTZ 15 was approved on March 23, 1973 (Board Order 93, 38 FR 8622, 
4/4/73) and expanded on October 25, 1974 (Board Order 102, 39 FR 39487, 
11/7/74); February 28, 1996 (Board Order 804, 61 FR 9676, 3/11/96); May 
31, 1996 (Board Order 824, 61 FR 29529, 6/11/96); December 8, 1997 
(Board Order 934, 62 FR 65654, 12/15/97); October 19, 1998 (Board Order 
1004, 63 FR 59761, 11/5/98); January 8, 1999 (Board Order 1016, 64 FR 
3064, 1/20/99) and, June 17, 1999 (Board Order 1042, 64 FR 34188, 6/25/
99). The zone project includes 8 general-purpose sites in the Kansas 
City, Missouri, port of entry area: Site 1 (250,000 sq. ft.)--Midland 
International Corp. warehouse, 1690 North Topping, Kansas City; Site 2 
(2,815,000 sq. ft.)--Hunt Midwest surface/underground warehouse 
complex, 8300 N.E. Underground Drive, Kansas City; Site 3 (10,000 
acres)--Kansas City International Airport complex, Kansas City; Site 4 
(416 acres)--Surface/underground business park (Carefree Industrial 
Park), 1600 N.M-291 Highway, Sugar Creek; Site 5 (5.75 million sq. 
ft.)--CARMAR Underground Business Park and Surface Industrial Park 
(1,000 acres) located at No. 1 Civil War Road, Carthage; Site 6 (28,000 
sq. ft., 11 acres)--Laser Light Technologies, Inc., Hermann Industrial 
Park, 5 Danuser Drive, Hermann; Site 7 (1,750 acres)--Richards-Gebaur 
Memorial Airport Industrial Park complex, 1540 Maxwell, Kansas City; 
and Site 8 (169 acres, 3 parcels)-Site 8a (60,000 sq. ft., 4 acres)--
warehouse facility of Midwest Quality Glove, Inc., 835 Industrial Road, 
Chillicothe; Site 8b (11 acres)--Chillicothe-Brunswick Rail Yard, 
Washington Street, Chillicothe; and Site 8c (50,000 sq. ft., 154 
acres)--Chillicothe Industrial Park, Corporate Road, Chillicothe.
    The applicant is now requesting authority to further expand the 
general-purpose zone to include two additional sites (50 acres) in St. 
Joseph, Missouri: Proposed Site 9 (200,000 sq. ft., 25 acres)--public 
storage facility at 2307 Alabama, St. Joseph; and, Proposed Site 10 
(169,000 sq. ft., 25 acres)--public storage facility at 2326 Lower Lake 
Road, St. Joseph. Some 900,000 sq. ft. of additional warehouse space is 
planned for the two sites. Both sites will be operated by Pony Express 
Warehousing, Inc. They are owned by two related companies, L & A 
Development, L.L.C. and Lower Lake Road, L.L.C. 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 September 17, 2001. Rebuttal comments in response 
to material submitted during the foregoing period may be submitted 
during the subsequent 15-day period (to October 2, 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, International Trade Administration, Export 
Assistance Center, 2345 Grand Boulevard, Suite 650, Kansas City, MO 
64108
Office of the Executive Secretary, Foreign-Trade Zones Board, Room 
4008, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th & Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., 
Washington, DC 20230

    Dated: July 9, 2001.
Dennis Puccinelli,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 01-18120 Filed 7-18-01; 8:45 am]
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