[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 74 (Tuesday, April 18, 2006)]
[Notices]
[Page 19872]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E6-5778]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Docket 12-2006]


Foreign-Trade Zone 148--Knoxville, TN, Area Application for 
Reorganization/Expansion

    An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones (FTZ) 
Board (the Board) by the Industrial Development Board of Blount County, 
grantee of Foreign-Trade Zone 148, requesting authority to reorganize 
and expand FTZ 148 in the Knoxville, Tennessee, area, adjacent to the 
Knoxville 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 April 6, 2006.
    FTZ 148 was approved on June 28, 1988 (Board Order 384, 53 FR 
26095, 7/11/88), and expanded on August 21, 2003 (Board Order 1294, 68 
FR 52385, 9/3/03). The zone project currently consists of the following 
sites: Site 1 (46 acres)--within the Bill Mullins Warehouse Park, 
Prosser Road, Knoxville (Knox County); Site 2 (5 acres)--Blount County 
Industrial Park, State Route 321 (one mile west of State Route 129), 
Maryville; Site 2A (27,000 sq. ft.)--McGhee Tyson Airport, State Route 
129, Alcoa (Blount County); Site 3 (7 acres)--Valley Industrial Park, 
State Route 62 and Union Valley Road, Oak Ridge (Anderson County); and, 
Site 4 (54 acres)--within the CoLinx warehousing facilities, 1536 
Genesis Road, Crossville (Cumberland County).
    The application is requesting authority to reorganize and expand 
the general-purpose zone project as follows: Sites 1, 2 and 3 would be 
deleted; Site 2A would become Site 1; and, Site 4 would become Site 2. 
Three new sites would be added: Proposed Site 3 (190 acres)--
Partnership Park South located on Partnership Way in Maryville (Blount 
County); Proposed Site 4 (13 acres)--within the 15-acre Heritage 
Center, East Technology Park, 2010 Highway 58, Oak Ridge (Roane 
County); and, Proposed Site 5 (71 acres, 2 parcels)--within Eagle Bend 
Industrial Park located on J.D. Yarnell Industrial Parkway in Clinton 
(Anderson County). No specific manufacturing authority 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 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 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 June 19, 2006. Rebuttal 
comments in response to material submitted during the foregoing period 
may be submitted during the subsequent 15-day period (to July 3, 2006.)
    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 U.S. Department of Commerce, Export Assistance 
Center, 17 Market Square, 201, Knoxville, TN 37902-1405.

    Dated: April 7, 2006.
Dennis Puccinelli,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. E6-5778 Filed 4-17-06; 8:45 am]
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