[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 97 (Tuesday, May 20, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Pages 27527-27528]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-12637]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Docket 23-2003]


Foreign-Trade Zone 22--Chicago, Illinois, Area Application for 
Expansion

    An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones (FTZ) 
Board (the Board), by the Illinois International Port District, grantee 
of Foreign-Trade Zone 22, requesting authority to expand its zone to 
include an additional site in the Chicago, Illinois, area, within the 
Chicago 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 May 12, 2003.
    FTZ 22 was approved on October 29, 1975 (Board Order 108, 40 FR 
51242, 11/4/75) and expanded on April 9, 1987 (Board Order 353, 52 FR 
12217, 4/15/87); December 11, 1992 (Board Order 614, 57 FR 61044, 12/
23/92); and, November 21, 2000 (Board Order 1127, 65 FR 76218, 12/6/
00). The general-purpose zone project currently consists of the 
following sites: Site 1 (19 acres)--within the Port's 2,250-acre Lake 
Calumet Harbor terminal facility; Site 2 (578 acres)--industrial park 
at One Diversatech Drive, Manteno; Site 3 (8 acres)--at 703 Foster 
Avenue, Bensonville; and, Site 4 (8 acres)--at Gerry Drive and Hansen 
Court, Wood Dale.
    The applicant is now requesting authority to expand the general-
purpose zone to include an additional site (Proposed Site 5) in Elwood 
(Will

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County). Proposed Site 5 (2,029 acres) is located at the CenterPoint 
Intermodal Center just west of the Village of Elwood, approximately 
2\1/2\ miles east of Interstate 55 and approximately 1 mile south of 
Arsenal Road. The site was formerly the Joliet Arsenal, a U.S. Army 
ammunition plant, and is currently being developed for commercial use 
as an intermodal facility and industrial park. The majority of the site 
is owned by CenterPoint Properties Trust. 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 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 July 21, 2003. Rebuttal 
comments in response to material submitted during the foregoing period 
may be submitted during the subsequent 15-day period to August 4, 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, 55 
West Monroe Street, Suite 2440, Chicago, Illinois 60603.

    Dated: May 12, 2003.
Dennis Puccinelli,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 03-12637 Filed 5-19-03; 8:45 am]
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