[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 179 (Tuesday, September 16, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Pages 54202-54203]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-23622]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Docket 44-2003]


Foreign-Trade Zone 40--Cleveland, Ohio, 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 
September 10, 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 Order 870, 62 FR 7750, 2/20/97; June 1999 (Board 
Order 1040, 64 FR 33242, 6/22/99); April 2002 (Board Order 1224, 67 FR 
20087, 4/15/02); and, August 2003 (Board Order 1289, 68 FR 52384, 9/3/
03; Board Order 1290, 68 FR 52384, 9/3/03; and, Board Order 1295, 68 FR 
52383, 9/3/03).
    The general-purpose zone project currently consists of the 
following sites in the Cleveland, Ohio, area: Site 1 (1,339 acres)--
Port of Cleveland complex, Cleveland Bulk Terminal and Tow Path Valley 
Business Park, Cleveland; Site 2 (175 acres)--the IX Center (formerly 
the ``Cleveland Tank Plant''), in Brook Park, adjacent to the Cleveland 
Hopkins International Airport; Site 3 (1,942acres)--Cleveland Hopkins 
International Airport complex and the adjacent Snow Road Industrial 
Park, Brook Park; 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 (174 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. An application 
is pending with the FTZ Board to expand FTZ 40 to include a site at the 
Harbour Point Business Park in Vermilion, Ohio (Docket 33-2003).
    The applicant is now requesting authority to expand existing Site 3 
to include the Brook Park Road Industrial Park (322 acres), 17601 Brook 
Park Road, Brook Park (Cuyahoga County). The site is immediately 
adjacent to the Cleveland Hopkins International Airport and is being 
developed as an industrial

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park. It is owned by the Ford Motor Company. 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 November 17, 2003. Rebuttal 
comments in response to material submitted during the foregoing period 
may be submitted during the subsequent 15-day period (to December 1, 
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: September 10, 2003.
Dennis Puccinelli,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 03-23622 Filed 9-15-03; 8:45 am]
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