[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 32 (Friday, February 15, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Pages 7132-7133]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-3808]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Docket 15-2002]


Foreign-Trade Zone 78--Nashville, TN; Application for Expansion

    An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones Board 
(the Board) by the Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson 
County, grantee of FTZ 78, requesting authority to expand its zone in 
the Nashville, Tennessee, area. 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 8, 2002.
    FTZ 78 was approved on April 2, 1982 (Board Order 190, 47 FR 16191, 
4/15/82) and expanded on February 18, 1999 (Board Order 1024, 64 FR 
9472, 2/26/99) and on October 24, 2000 (Board Order 1124, 65 FR 66231, 
11/3/00). The zone currently consists of seven sites in the Nashville, 
Tennessee area: Site 1--(52,000 square feet) within a 200,000 square 
foot warehouse located at 750 Cowan Street, Nashville; Site 2--(57 
acres) within the 2,000-acre Cockrill Bend Industrial Park, Nashville; 
Site 3--(400,000 square feet) located at 323 Mason Road, La Vergne; 
Site 4--(39 acres) Space Park North Industrial Park, 1000 Cartwright 
Street, Goodlettsville; Site 5--(19 acres) Old Stone Bridge Industrial 
Park, Old Stone Bridge, Goodlettsville; Site 6--(806 acres) located at 
Nashville International Airport, One Terminal Drive, Nashville; and, 
Site 7--(38 acres) located within the Eastgate Business Park at 3850 
Eastgate Boulevard, Lebanon, and at a Temporary Site--(403,750 sq. ft.) 
located within the Eastgate Business Park at 7800 Eastgate Boulevard, 
Lebanon (expires 11/1/03).
    The applicant is now requesting authority to expand Site 7 to 
include an additional parcel (41.5 acres) located within the Eastgate 
Business Park at

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7800 Eastgate Boulevard in Lebanon. The facility will be operated by 
IEC Logistics as a public warehouse facility. The proposed expansion 
will also include the temporary site as part of Site 7 on a permanent 
basis. 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 Execuitve Secretary at one of the addresses:
    1. Submissions via Express/Package Delivery Services: Foreign-Trade 
Zones Board, U.S. Department of Commerce, Franklin Court Building--
Suite 4100W, 1099 14th Street NW, Washington, DC 20005; or,
    2. Submissions via the U.S. Postal Service: Foreign-Trade Zones 
Board, U.S. Department of Commerce, FCB--Suite 4100W, 1401 Constitution 
Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20230.
    The closing period for their receipt is April 16, 2002. Rebuttal 
comments in response to material submitted during the foregoing period 
may be submitted during the subsequent 15-day period (to May 1, 2002).
    A copy of the application and accompanying exhibits will be 
available for public inspection at the Office of the Foreign-Trade 
Zones Board at the first address listed above and at the U.S. 
Department of Commerce, Export Assistance Center, Commerce Center 
Building, 211 Commerce Street, Third Floor, Suite 300, Nashville, TN 
37201-1802.

    Dated: February 8, 2002.
Dennis Puccinelli,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 02-3808 Filed 2-14-02; 8:45 am]
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