[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 128 (Thursday, July 3, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Pages 39896-39897]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-16921]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Docket 33-2003]


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 
June 27, 2003.
    FTZ 40 was approved on September 29, 1978 (Board Order 135, 43 FR 
46886, 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

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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), to expand existing Site 1 (Docket 6-2003) and to expand existing 
Site 8 (Docket 14-2003).
    The applicant is now requesting authority to expand the general-
purpose zone to include an additional site (New Proposed Site 11) in 
the City of Vermilion (Lorain County). New Proposed Site 11 (172 acres, 
2 parcels) is located within the 800-acre Harbour Point Business Park, 
Baumhart Road, at the intersections of U.S. Route 6 and Ohio Route 2, 
Vermilion. (Though there is an existing Site 11, it is temporary, and 
an application is pending with the Board that would incorporate it as 
part of Site 3.) The proposed zone project is immediately adjacent to 
the Ford Motor Company subzone in Lorain. The site is owned by Great 
Lakes Development, Ltd. The site will provide public warehousing and 
distribution services to area businesses. 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 September 2, 2003. Rebuttal 
comments in response to material submitted during the foregoing period 
may be submitted during the subsequent 15-day period (to September 16, 
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: June 27, 2003.
Dennis Puccinelli,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 03-16921 Filed 7-2-03; 8:45 am]
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