[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 53 (Wednesday, March 19, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Pages 13255-13256]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-6482]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Docket 14-2003]


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 
March 10, 2003.
    FTZ 40 was approved on September 29, 1978 (Board Order 135, 43 FR 
46886,

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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); June 1999 (Board Order 
1040, 64 FR 33242, 6/22/99); and, April 2002 (Board Order 1224, 67 FR 
20087, 4/15/02). 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 (128 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 (298 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; Site 9 (13 acres)--East 40th 
Street between Kelley & Perkins Avenues (3830 Kelley Avenue), 
Cleveland; and, Site 10 (15 acres)--Frane Industrial Park, Forman Road, 
Ashtabula; Temporary Site 11 (15 acres)--Snow Road Industrial Park, 
18901 Snow Road, Brook Park; and, Temporary Site 12 (32 acres)--Tow 
Path Valley Business Park, 3060 Eggers Avenue, Cleveland. Applications 
are pending with the FTZ Board to expand existing Site 3 (Docket 38-
2002), and to expand existing Site 1 (Docket 6-2003).
    The applicant is now requesting authority to expand existing Site 8 
by adding an additional 91 acres within the Strongsville Industrial 
Park, near the intersection of Foltz Industrial Parkway and Lunn Road, 
Strongsville. This increases the total acreage at this site to 174 
acres. The site is owned by Duke Realty Corp., Astro Instrumentation 
L.L.C. and Arthur Properties Ltd. The site will provide public 
warehousing and distribution services to area businesses. It will also 
offer sites suitable for manufacturing activity, though 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 one of the following 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.
    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 May 19, 2003. Rebuttal 
comments in response to material submitted during the foregoing period 
may be submitted during the subsequent 15-day period (to June 2, 2003).
    A copy of the application and accompanying exhibits will be 
available during this time for public inspection at address Number 1 
listed above, and at the U.S. Department of Commerce Export Assistance 
Center, 600 Superior Avenue East, Suite 700, Cleveland, OH 44114.

    Dated: March 10, 2003.
Dennis Puccinelli,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 03-6482 Filed 3-18-03; 8:45 am]
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