[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 204 (Monday, October 24, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Pages 61429-61430]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 05-21217]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

(Docket 49-2005)


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 FTZ 22, requesting authority to expand its zone in the Chicago area, 
within and adjacent to 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 October 14, 2005.
    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); on December 11, 1992 (Board Order 614, 57 FR 61044, 
12/23/92); on November 21, 2000 (Board Order 1127, 65 FR 76218, 12/6/
00); on December 19, 2003 (Board Order 1313, 69 FR 49, 1/2/04); and, on 
May 9, 2005 (Board Order 1390, 70 FR 29276, 5/20/05).

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    The general-purpose zone project currently consists of (2,998 
acres) in the Chicago area: 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) -- 
Gotoh Distribution Services, Inc., warehouse facility located at 703 
Foster Avenue, Bensonville; Site 4 (8 acres) -- Meiko America Inc. 
warehouse facility located at Gerry Drive and Hansen Court, Wood Dale; 
Site 5 (2,029 acres) -- CenterPoint Intermodal Center, located east of 
Interstate 55 and south of Arsenal Road, Village of Elwood; Site6 (317 
acres) -- within the 371-acre Rock Run Business Park located in the 
northwest quadrant of Houbolt Road and Interstate 80, Joliet; and, 
Temporary Site 7 (39 acres) -- within the O'Hare Express North 
Industrial Park, 893 Upper Express Drive, Chicago.
    The applicant is now requesting authority to expand the general-
purpose zone to include four additional sites in the area: Proposed 
Site 8 (142 acres) -- within the 187-acre ProLogis Park 80, located 
north of Interstate 80 and west of Highway 47, Morris (Grundy County); 
Proposed Site 9 (12 acres) -- Eagle Global Logistics facility (within 
the Centex Industrial Park), 1717 Busse Road, Elk Grove Village (Cook 
County); Proposed Site 10 (43 acres) -- Bolingbrook Distribution 
Center, 1701 Remington Boulevard, Bolingbrook (Will County); and, 
Proposed Site 11 (157 acres, 2 parcels) -- Heartland Corporate Center, 
21228 SW Frontage Road, Shorewood (Will County). The applicant is also 
requesting that 41 acres at Site 5 (CenterPoint Intermodal Center) be 
restored to zone status and that Temporary Site 7 (39 acres) be granted 
zone status on a permanent basis. (A minor boundary modification was 
approved on January 11, 2005 (A(27f)-2-2005), removing 41 acres from 
Site 5 to establish the temporary site.) The sites will be used 
primarily for warehousing and distribution activities. The owners of 
the sites are ProLogis, Eagle Global Logistics, LIT Industrial Limited 
Partnership, and CenterPoint Properties. No specific manufacturing 
authority is being requested at this time. Such requests would be made 
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 December 23, 2005. Rebuttal 
comments in response to material submitted during the foregoing period 
may be submitted during the subsequent 15-day period (to January 9, 
2006).
    A copy of the application and accompanying exhibits will be 
available during this time for public inspection at the address Number 
1 listed above, and at the U.S. Department of Commerce Export 
Assistance Center, 55 West Monroe Street, Suite 2400, Chicago, IL 
60603.

    October 14, 2005.
Dennis Puccinelli,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 05-21217 Filed 10-21-05; 8:45 am]
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