[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 175 (Tuesday, September 10, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Page 57376]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-23000]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Docket 34-2002]


Foreign-Trade Zone 214--Lenoir County, North Carolina Application 
for Expansion

    An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones Board 
(the Board) by the North Carolina Global TransPark Authority, grantee 
of Foreign-Trade Zone 214, requesting authority to expand its zone to 
include an additional site in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, adjacent to 
the Durham 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 September 3, 2002.
    FTZ 214 was approved on May 7, 1996 (Board Order 815, 61 FR 27048, 
5/30/96). The zone currently consists of a site at the Kinston Regional 
Jetport complex (1,170 acres) in Lenoir County, North Carolina.
    The applicant is now requesting authority to expand the general-
purpose zone to include an additional site in Rocky Mount: Site 2 (35 
acres) at the warehouse facility of Kanban Logistics, Inc., 1114 
Kingsboro Road, Rocky Mount (Edgecombe County), North Carolina. No 
specific manufacturing authority is being requested 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 one of the addresses below:
    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 November 12, 2002. Rebuttal 
comments in response to material submitted during the foregoing period 
may be submitted during the subsequent 15-day period (to November 25, 
2002).
    A copy of the application and accompanying exhibits will be 
available for public inspection at the Office of the Foreign-Trade 
Zones Board's Executive Secretary at the first address listed above, 
and at the office of the Carolinas Gateway Partnership, 427 Falls Road, 
Rocky Mount, NC 27804-4808.

    Dated: September 4, 2002.
Pierre V. Duy,
Acting Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 02-23000 Filed 9-9-02; 8:45 am]
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