[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 224 (Wednesday, November 20, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Pages 70047-70048]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-29499]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Docket 50-2002]


Foreign-Trade Zone 2--New Orleans, LA; Application for Expansion

    An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones Board 
(the Board) by the Board of Commissioners of the Port of New Orleans 
(the Port), grantee of FTZ 2, requesting authority to expand its zone 
in the New Orleans, Louisiana area, within the New Orleans 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 November 6, 2002
    FTZ 2 was approved by the Board on July 16, 1946 (Board Order 12, 
11 FR 8235, July 31, 1946). The zone has since been expanded four times 
(Board Orders 245, 331, 544 & 1000) and currently consists of seven 
sites (1,035 acres) in the New Orleans, Louisiana area:

    Site 1 (4 Parcels, 19 acres total) as follows:

--8 acres at 100 Napoleon Avenue
--7 acres at 500 Louisiana Avenue (expires 12/1/02)
--1 acre at 500 N. Cortez Street
--3 acres at 720 Richard Street (expires 12/1/02);

    Site 2 (76 acres) within the Almonaster-Michoud Industrial 
District (AMID) on the Inner Harbor Navigation Canal and the 
Mississippi River Gulf Outlet;
    Site 3 (573 acres)--within the Newport Industrial Park, adjacent 
to AMID;
    Site 4 (4 acres, 159,000 sq. ft.) at 200 Croften Road, adjacent 
to the New Orleans International Airport, Kenner (Jefferson Parish);
    Site 5 (21 parcels (some temporary), 111 acres total) at public/
LME warehouse facilities at or adjacent to the Port of New Orleans 
as follows:

--7 acres at 5200 Coffee Drive, operated by Port Cargo Services, 
Inc. (PCS)
--2 acres at 601 Market Street, operated by PCS
--2 acres at 1601 Tchoupitoulas Street, operated by Neeb-Kearney, & 
Company, Inc. (NKI)
--12 acres at 5630 Douglas Street, owned and operated by Dupuy 
Storage and Forwarding Corporation (DSFC)
--9 acres at 6230 Bienvenue Street, operated by Metro International 
Trade Services, Inc. (MITSI)
--7 acres at 1400 Montegut Street, owned and operated by DSFC
--1 acre at 1645 Tchoupitoulas Street, operated by PCS
--1 acre at 1770 Tchoupitoulas Street, operated by Pacorini USA, 
Inc. (PUI)
--9 acres at 1930 Japonica Street, operated by MITSI
--2 acres at 2941 Royal Street, operated by NKI
--2 acres at 600 Market Street, operated by MITSI
--1 acre at 3101 Charters Street, operated by MITSI
--1 acre at 2601 Decatur Street, operated by DSFC
--1 acre at 2520 Decatur Street, operated by DSFC
--13 acres at 5300 Old Gentilly Boulevard, operated by DSFC
--8 acres at 4400 Florida Avenue, operated by PCS
--2 acres at 410, 420 & 440 Josephine Street and 427 Jackson Avenue, 
operated by PUI
--12 acres at 701/801 Thayer Street & 700/800 Atlantic Street 
operated by PCS
--9 acres at 500 Edwards Avenue, Harahan, operated by PCS
--9 acres at 14100 Chef Menteur Highway, New Orleans; operated by 
NKI; and,
--1 acre at 2114-2120 Rousseau Street, operated by PCS.

    Site 6 (136 acres)--Arabi Terminal and Industrial Park, at Mile 
Point 90.5 on the Mississippi River, Arabi, owned and operated by 
the St. Bernard Port Harbor and Terminal District; and,
    Site 7 (216 acres)--Chalmette Terminal and Industrial Park, one 
mile down river from the Arabi Terminal, owned and operated by the 
St. Bernard Port Harbor and Terminal District.

    The applicant is now requesting authority to update, expand and 
reorganize the zone as described below. The proposal seeks to 
reorganize the site plan and site designations, to extend zone status 
to parcels with temporary authority, to restore zone status to parcels 
previously deleted from the zone in earlier changes, and to expand 
existing Site 5 by adding 8 new public/LME warehouse facilities.

    Site 1 will be reduced to include only the 8-acre site at 100 
Napoleon Avenue, New Orleans with the three other parcels being 
shifted to Site 5;
    Site 3 will be reorganized to reinstate the 112 acres previously 
deleted through the approval of temporary modifications. The 
reorganized site would cover 685 acres within the Newport Industrial 
Park, Paris Road, Chalmette;
    Site 5 will be reorganized and expanded to include all parcels 
listed above on a permanent basis, to include the three parcels from 
Site 1 on a permanent basis, and to include 8 new parcels at 
additional public/LME warehouse facilities at or adjacent to the 
Port of New Orleans (49 acres total) as follows:


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--10 acres at 1000 Burmaster Street, New Orleans, operated by NKI;
--7 acres at 6025 River Road, New Orleans, operated by MITSI;
--17 acres at 620/640 River Road, Westwego, operated by PCS;
--1 acre at 1806 Religious Street, New Orleans, operated by James P. 
Stoyanoff;
--3 acres at 1050 S. Jeff Davis Parkway, New Orleans, operated by 
The Delivery Network, Inc.;
--2 acres at 1600 Annunciation Street, New Orleans, operated by PCS;
--5 acres at 402 Alabo Street, New Orleans, operated by the the 
Port; and,
--4 acres at 4400 N. Galvez Street, New Orleans, operated by NKI.

    Site 5, as proposed, will consist of a total of 171 acres total.
    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 January 21, 2003. Rebuttal comments in response to 
material submitted during the foregoing period may be submitted during 
the subsequent 15-day period February 3, 2003.
    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, 423 Canal Street, 
New Orleans, LA 70130.
Office of the Executive Secretary, Foreign-Trade Zones Board, U.S. 
Department of Commerce, FCB--Suite 4100 W, 1099 14th St. NW., 
Washington, DC 20005.

    Dated: November 13, 2002.
Dennis Puccinelli,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 02-29499 Filed 11-19-02; 8:45 am]
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