[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 72 (Tuesday, April 15, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Pages 18196-18197]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-9206]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Docket 18-2003]


Foreign-Trade Zone 29--Louisville, KY, Area Application for 
Expansion

    An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones (FTZ) 
Board (the Board), by the Louisville and Jefferson County Riverport 
Authority, grantee of Foreign-Trade Zone 29, Louisville, Kentucky, 
requesting authority to expand its zone at sites within the Owensboro, 
Kentucky-Evansville, Indiana, 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 April 4, 2003.
    FTZ 29 currently serves businesses in the Louisville Customs port 
of entry area. The proposed change would expand the FTZ 29 plan to also 
serve businesses in the Kentucky portion of the Owensboro-Evansville 
Customs port of entry, which currently has no existing zone sites.
    FTZ 29 was approved on May 26, 1977 (Board Order 118, 42 FR 29323, 
6/8/77) and expanded on January 31, 1989 (Board Order 429, 54 F.R. 
5992, 2/7/89); December 15, 1997 (Board Order 941, 62 FR 67044, 12/23/
97); July 17, 1998 (Board Order 995, 63 FR 40878, 7/31/98); December 
11, 2000 (Board Order 1133, 65 FR 79802, 12/20/00); and, January 15, 
2002 (Board Order 1204, 67 FR 4391, 1/30/02). The zone project 
currently consists of the following sites in the Louisville, Kentucky, 
area: Site 1 (1,674 acres)--1,668 acres within the Riverport Industrial 
complex and 6 acres at 3401 Jewell Avenue, Louisville; Site 2 (593 
acres)--located at the junction of Gene Snyder Freeway and La Grange 
Road, eastern Jefferson County; Site 3 (142 acres)--United States Navy 
Ordnance facility, 5403 Southside Drive, Louisville; Site 4 (2,311 
acres)--consisting of the Louisville International Airport and three 
other airport-related parcels; Site 5 (70 acres)--Marathon Ashland 
Petroleum LLC Tank Farm and pipelines, 4510 Algonquin Parkway along the 
Ohio River, Louisville; and Site 6 (316 acres)--Cedar Grove Business 
Park, Highway 480, near Interstate 65, Bullitt County.
    The applicant is now requesting authority to expand the general-
purpose zone to include two new sites in Henderson and Owensboro, 
Kentucky: Proposed Site 7 (273 acres)--Henderson County Riverport 
Authority facilities, 6200 Riverport Road, Henderson; and, Proposed 
Site 8 (182 acres)--Owensboro Riverport Authority facilities, 2300 
Harbor Road, Owensboro. Proposed Site 7 is owned by the Henderson 
County Riverport Authority and the Abbott Family Farm. Proposed Site 8 
is owned by the Owensboro Riverport Authority. No specific 
manufacturing requests are being made at this time. Such requests

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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 St. 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 
Ave. NW., Washington, DC 20230.
    The closing period for their receipt is June 16, 2003. Rebuttal 
comments in response to material submitted during the foregoing period 
may be submitted during the subsequent 15-day period (to June 30, 
2003).
    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 U.S. Department of Commerce, Export Assistance Center, Gene 
Snyder Courthouse Building, 601 West Broadway, Room 634B, Louisville, 
Kentucky 40402.

    Dated: April 8 2003.
Dennis Puccinelli,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 03-9206 Filed 4-14-03; 8:45 am]
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