[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 30 (Wednesday, February 13, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Pages 6679-6680]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-3534]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Docket 8-2002]


Foreign-Trade Zone 181--Akron/Canton, OH; Application for 
Expansion

    An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones Board 
(the Board) by the Northeast Ohio Trade & Economic Consortium (NEOTEC), 
grantee of FTZ 181, requesting authority to expand its zone in the 
Akron/Canton, Ohio area, within and adjacent to the Cleveland Customs 
port of entry. The application was submitted pursuant to the provisions 
of the Foreign-Trade Zones Act (19 U.S.C. 81a-81u), and the regulations 
of the Board (15 CFR part 400). It was formally filed on January 30, 
2002.
    FTZ 181 was approved by the Board on December 23, 1991 (Board Order 
546, 57 FR 41; 1/2/92). On March 13, 1998, the grant of authority was 
reissued to NEOTEC (Board Order 965, 63 FR 13837; 3/23/98). The zone 
was expanded in 1997 (Board Order 902, 62 FR 36044; 7/3/97), in 1998 
(Board Order 968, 63 FR 16962; 4/7/98) and in 1999 (Board Order 1053, 
64 FR 51291; 9/22/99). FTZ 181 currently consists of six sites (4,736 
acres) in the Akron/Canton, Ohio, area:

    Site 1 (152 acres)--within the 2,121-acre Akron-Canton Regional 
Airport (includes a temporary site (3 acres, expires 1/31/04) 
located at 8400 Port Jackson Avenue, Jackson Township;
    Site 2 (1,236 acres)--within the Youngstown-Warren Regional 
Airport area, Trumbull County (includes four temporary sites (141 
acres total, expire 1/31/04) located as follows: 40 acres within the 
airport industrial park; 50 acres within the Youngstown Commerce 
Park; 21 acres located at 3175-3375 Gilchrist Road, Mogadore, Ohio; 
and 30 acres within the Cuyahoga Falls Industrial Park, Cuyahoga 
Falls, Ohio;
    Site 3 (124 acres, 2 parcels)--Columbiana County Port Authority 
port terminal facility (19 acres) on the Ohio River, 1250 St. George 
Street, East Liverpool, and the port authority's Leetonia Industrial 
Park (105 acres) State Route 344, Leetonia, Ohio;
    Site 4 (840 acres)--Stark County Intermodal Facility, 
approximately one mile south of the City of Massillon, adjacent to 
State Route 21 in the southwestern corner of Stark County;
    Site 5 (2,354 acres)--within the Mansfield Lahm Airport complex, 
located on State Route 13 at South Airport Road, Mansfield, some 50 
miles west of Akron, including the airport facility's four 
industrial parks, airport fueling facilities, the 91-acre Gorman-
Rupp facility as well as a temporary site (20 acres, expires 1/31/
04) located at 1600 Terex Road, Hudson, Ohio; and,
    Site 6 (30 acres)--Terminal Warehouse, Inc. facility, located at 
1779 Marvo Drive, Summit County.

    The applicant is now requesting authority to update, expand and 
reorganize the zone as described below. The proposal includes requests 
to reorganize the site plan and site designations, to extend zone 
status to parcels with temporary authority, to restore zone status to 
parcels located within the existing or proposed zone sites that had 
been deleted from the zone boundary in earlier changes, to expand 
existing sites, and to add two new industrial park sites.

    Site 1 will be reorganized and expanded to include on a 
permanent basis the temporary sites at 8400 Port Jackson Avenue (3 
acres), at 3175-3375 Gilchrist Road (21 acres), at the Cuyahoga 
Falls Industrial Park (30 acres), at the site at 1600 Terex Road (20 
acres), and at the Terminal Warehouse facility at 1779 Marvo Drive, 
Summit County (30 acres). The applicant also requests to add two new 
industrial parks--the Ascot Industrial Park (190 acres) in the City 
of Akron, the Prosper Industrial Park (103 acres) in the City of 
Stow--and to reinstate the 9-acre parcel previously deleted from the 
City of Green at the Akron/Canton Airport. Overall, the reorganized 
Site 1 would cover 555 acres.
    Site 2 will be reorganized and expanded to include on a 
permanent basis the temporary site (40 acres) located within the 
western portion of the 88-acre airport industrial park and the 
temporary site (50 acres) located within the western portion of the 
Youngstown Commerce Park. The application also requests the addition 
of a new industrial park (66 acres) located in Fowler Township, 
adjacent to the Kings Graves and Youngstown Kingsville Road and

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to reinstate the 120 acres located within the Youngstown Warren 
Regional Airport that were previously deleted in Trumbull County. 
The reorganized Site 2 would cover 1,371 acres.
    Site 3: will be expanded to include the Columbiana County Port 
Authority Intermodal Industrial Park port facility (66 acres) in 
Wellsville, increasing the size of Site 3 from 124 to 190 acres.
    Site 4: will be expanded to include three industrial park sites 
and 3 warehouse facilities as follows: an industrial park (91 acres) 
located on the southeast side of the City of Massillon, south of 
U.S. 30 and east of U.S. 62; a warehouse facility (12 acres) located 
at 8045 Navarre Road, S.W., Massillon; the Ford Industrial Park (40 
acres), adjacent to the City of Canton, south of U.S. 30; a 
warehouse facility (18 acres) located at 2207 Kimball Road, S.E., 
Canton; the Sawburg Commerce Industrial Park (158 acres), Alliance; 
and the Detroit Diesel Corporation warehouse (38 acres) located at 
515 11th Street, S.E., Canton, Ohio, increasing the size of Site 4 
from 840 to 1,197 acres.
    Site 5: will be modified to reinstate a parcel (13 acres) 
located at the Mansfield Airport Industrial Park in the city of 
Mansfield. The reorganized Site 5 would cover 2,347 acres.
    New Site 6: will cover a parcel (43 acres) within the 143-acre 
Colorado Industrial Park, Lorain County.
    New Site 7: will involve the Kinder-Morgan/Pinney Dock and 
Transport Company, Inc., facility (309 acres) located at 1149 East 
5th Street, Ashtabula, Ohio.

    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 April 15, 2002. Rebuttal comments in response to 
material submitted during the foregoing period may be submitted during 
the subsequent 15-day period (to April 29, 2002).
    A copy of the application and accompanying exhibits will be 
available for public inspection at each of the following locations:

Office of the Port Director, U.S. Customs Service, 6747 Engle Road, 
Middleburg Heights, OH 44130.
Office of the Executive Secretary, Foreign-Trade Zones Board, U.S. 
Department of Commerce, FCB--Suite 4100W 1099 14th St. NW, Washington, 
DC 20005.

    Dated: February 1, 2002.
Dennis Puccinelli,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 02-3534 Filed 2-12-02; 8:45 am]
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