[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 151 (Friday, August 6, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Page 47865]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 04-18042]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Docket 29-2004]


Foreign-Trade Zone 154--Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Area; Application 
for Expansion

    An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones Board 
(the Board), by the Greater Baton Rouge Port Commission, grantee of FTZ 
154, requesting authority to expand the zone in the Baton Rouge, 
Louisiana, area, adjacent to the Baton Rouge 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 July 28, 2004.
    FTZ 154 was approved on November 2, 1988 (Board Order 396, 53 FR 
48003, 11/29/88), and expanded/reorganized on April 5, 2001 (Board 
Order 1159, 66 FR 19422, 4/16/01). The zone project currently consists 
of the following sites (3,638 acres) in the Baton Rouge area: Site 1 
(370 acres)--Port of Greater Baton Rouge's entire deep-water complex 
along the Mississippi River, Port Allen; Site 2 (1,277 acres)--Baton 
Rouge Metropolitan Airport, North Baton Rouge; Site 3 (157 acres)--
Inland Rivers Marine Terminal FTZ site located on Louisiana Highway 1, 
Port Allen; and, Site 4 (1,834 acres)--industrial/chemical complex (Dow 
Chemical) located on Louisiana Highway 1 within the Parishes of West 
Baton Rouge and Iberville.
    The applicant is now requesting authority to expand the general-
purpose zone to include an additional site in St. Martin Parish: 
Proposed Site 5 consists of 120 acres (2 parcels) within the 155-acre 
St. Martin Parish Industrial Park located at 6261 Louisiana Highway 31 
near St. Martinville, Louisiana. The property is owned by St. Martin 
Parish Government and St. Martinville L.L.C., and it is currently being 
marketed for industrial development. No specific manufacturing is being 
requested 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; 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 October 5, 2004. Rebuttal 
comments in response to material submitted during the foregoing period 
may be submitted during the subsequent 15-day period (to October 20, 
2004).
    A copy of the application and accompanying exhibits will be 
available during this time for public inspection at the Office of the 
Foreign-Trade Zones Board's Executive Secretary at the first address 
listed above, and at the Office of the Port of Greater Baton Rouge, 
2425 Ernest Wilson Drive, Port Allen, LA 70767.

    Dated: July 30, 2004.
Dennis Puccinelli,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 04-18042 Filed 8-5-04; 8:45 am]
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