[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 105 (Tuesday, June 1, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Pages 30871-30872]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 04-12291]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Docket 23-2004]


Foreign-Trade Zone 176--Rockford, Illinois Area; Application for 
Expansion/Reorganization

    An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones Board 
(the Board) by the Greater Rockford Airport Authority, grantee of FTZ 
176, requesting authority to expand FTZ 176, in the Rockford, Illinois 
area, adjacent to the Rockford 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 25, 2004.
    FTZ 176 was approved on March 1, 1991 (Board Order 511, 56 FR 
10409, 3/12/91). The zone project currently

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consists of the following sites in the Rockford, Illinois area: Site 1 
(1,972 acres)--industrial park area of the Greater Rockford Airport on 
Route F.A. 179; Site 1a--(2 acres)--warehouse facilities at 1635 New 
Milford School Road (82,200 sq. ft.) and 1129 Eighteenth Avenue (12,871 
sq. ft.), Rockford; Site 2 (6 acres)--warehouse at 500 South 
Independence Avenue, Rockford; Site 3 (14 acres)--warehouse facilities 
at 795 and 888 Landmark Drive, Landmark Industrial Park, Belvidere 
(expired 7/31/03); Site 4 (6 acres)--3575 Morreim Drive, Town Hall 
Industrial Park, Belvidere (expires 7/31/04).
    The applicant is reorganizing the general-purpose zone by formally 
deleting Site 3, which expired in 2003 and Site 4, which will expire in 
2004. The applicant is requesting authority to expand the general-
purpose zone to include 3 additional industrial sites (923 acres) in 
Rochelle, Ogle County, Illinois, some 25 miles south of Rockford: 
Proposed Site 3 (566 acres, 2 parcels)--CenterPoint Industrial Park 
(366 acres), north of the intersection of Route 38 and Brush Grove 
Road, Rochelle, and, Interstate Transportation Center industrial park 
(200 acres), west side of state Highway 38; Proposed Site 4 (304 acres, 
3 parcels)--LogistiCenter, southwest corner of I-39 and I-88, Rochelle; 
and, Proposed Site 5 (53 acres) South Rochelle industrial park (53 
acres), south side of Rochelle on State Highway 251 and Veterans 
Parkway. The majority of sites are owned by Centerpoint, Black Earth, 
LLC and DP Partners or its affiliates. No specific manufacturing 
requests are being made at this time. Such request 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.
    Pubic 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 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 U.S. Postal Service: Foreign-Trade Zones Board, 
U.S. Department of Commerce, FCB-4100W, 1401 Constitution Ave., NW, 
Washington, DC 20230.
    The closing period for their receipt is August 2, 2004. Rebuttal 
comments in response to material submitted during the foregoing period 
may be submitted during the subsequent 15-day period (to August 16, 
2004).
    A copy of the application will be available for public inspection 
at the Office of the Foreign-Trade Zone Board's Executive Secretary at 
address No. 1 listed above and the U.S. Export Assistance Center, 515 
N. Court St., Rockford, IL 61103.

    Dated: May 25, 2004.
Dennis Puccinelli,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 04-12291 Filed 5-28-04; 8:45 am]
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