[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 148 (Wednesday, August 1, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Page 39729]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-19207]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Docket 33-2001]


Foreign-Trade Zone 40--Cleveland, OH, Area Application for 
Expansion

    An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones (FTZ) 
Board (the Board), by the Cleveland-Cuyahoga County Port Authority, 
grantee of Foreign-Trade Zone 40, requesting authority to expand its 
zone in the Cleveland, Ohio, area, within the Cleveland 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 24, 2001.
    FTZ 40 was approved on September 29, 1978 (Board Order 135, 43 FR 
46886, 10/11/78) and expanded in June 1982 (Board Order 194, 47 FR 
27579, 6/25/82); April 1992 (Board Order 574, 57 FR 13694, 4/17/92); 
February 1997 (Board Order 870, 62 FR 7750, 2/20/97; and, June 1999 
(Board Order 1040, 64 FR 33242, 6/22/99). The general-purpose zone 
project currently consists of the following sites in the Cleveland, 
Ohio, area: Site 1 (94 acres)--Port of Cleveland complex on Lake Erie 
at the mouth of the Cuyahoga River, Cleveland; Site 2 (175 acres)--the 
IX Center (formerly the ``Cleveland Tank Plant''), in Brook Park, 
adjacent to the Cleveland Hopkins International Airport; Site 3 (1,900 
acres)--Cleveland Hopkins International Airport complex; Site 4 (450 
acres)--Burke Lakefront Airport, 1501 North Marginal Road, Cleveland; 
Site 5 (276 acres)--Emerald Valley Business Park, Cochran Road and 
Beaver Meadow Parkway,Glenwillow; Site 6 (30 acres)--Collinwood site, 
South Waterloo (South Marginal) Road and East 152nd Street, Cleveland; 
Site 7 (47 acres)--Water Tower Industrial Park, Coit Road and East 
140th Street, Cleveland; Site 8 (83 acres)--Strongsville Industrial 
Park, Royalton Road (State Route 82), Strongsville; and, Temporary Site 
9 (13 acres)--East 40th Street between Kelley & Perkins Avenues (3830 
Kelley Avenue), Cleveland.
    The applicant is now requesting authority to expand the general-
purpose zone to include on a permanent basis the area within Temporary 
Site 9 (expires 12/31/02) and to include an additional site--Proposed 
Site 10. Temporary Site 9, owned by the PUBCO Corporation, involves an 
inner-city business park. Proposed Site 10 (15 acres)--involves the 
Frane Properties Industrial Park, 2399 Forman Road, Morgan Township, 
Ashtabula County. The site served as a former ammunitions manufacturing 
and distribution facilities of the Smith & Wesson Corporation and is 
being developed as a business park/campus FTZ. The site is owned by 
Frane Properties LLC. The application also includes a request to 
restore 22 acres at Site 5 (new total 298). 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 October 1, 2001. Rebuttal comments in response to 
material submitted during the foregoing period may be submitted during 
the subsequent 15-day period (to October 15, 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, 600 Superior Avenue, East, Suite 700, Cleveland, OH 
44114; 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 25, 2001.
Dennis Puccinelli,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 01-19207 Filed 7-31-01; 8:45 am]
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