[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 247 (Tuesday, December 26, 2006)]
[Notices]
[Pages 77369-77370]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E6-22079]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

Docket 47-2006


Foreign-Trade Zone 15 - Kansas City, Missouri, Area, Application 
for Expansion

    An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones Board 
(the Board) by the Greater Kansas City Foreign Trade Zone, Inc., 
grantee of FTZ 15, requesting authority to expand its zone in the 
Kansas City, Missouri, area, adjacent to the Kansas City CBP 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 
December 14, 2006.
    FTZ 15 was approved on March 23, 1973 (Board Order 93, 38 FR 8622, 
4/4/73) and expanded on October 25, 1974 (Board Order 102, 39 FR 39487, 
11/7/74); on February 28, 1996 (Board Order 804, 61 FR 9676, 3/11/96); 
on May 31, 1996 (Board Order 824, 61 FR 29529, 6/11/96); on December 8, 
1997 (Board Order 934, 62 FR 65654, 12/15/97); on October 19, 1998 
(Board Order 1004, 63 FR 59761, 11/5/98); on January 8, 1999 (Board 
Order 1016, 64 FR 3064, 1/20/99); on June 17, 1999 (Board Order 1042, 
64 FR 34188, 6/25/99); on April 15, 2002 (Board Order 1226, 67 FR 
20087, 4/24/02); and, on April 20, 2005 (Board Order 1388, 70 FR 22630, 
5/2/05).
    The zone project to date has consisted of the following sites in 
the Kansas City area: Site 1 (5.7 acres, 250,000 sq. ft.) -- Midland 
International Corporation warehouse facility located at 1650 North 
Topping St., Kansas City; Site 1A (2.76 acres) -- located at 1226 
Topping Drive, Kansas City; Site 2 (64.3 acres, 2.8 million sq. ft.) -- 
surface/underground warehouse complex located at 8300 NE Underground 
Drive, Kansas City (includes a site (75,000 sq. ft.) located at 3600 
Great Midwest Drive operated by Terminal Consolidation Company); Site 3 
(9,615 acres) -- located within the 10,000-acre Kansas City 
International Airport facility; Site 3A (1 acre, 33,541 sq. ft.) -- 
located at 10201 N. Everton, Kansas City; Site 3B (3 parcels, 384 acres 
total) -- Kansas City: Parcel 1 (68 acres) -- within the 330-acre Air 
World Center Business Park, located at Interstate 29 and 112th Street; 
Parcel 2 (155 acres) -- Congress Corporate Center Industrial Park, 
located at the northwest corner of 112th Street and North Congress; 
and, Parcel 3 (161 acres) -- city-owned Harley Davidson Site; Site 4 
(416 acres) -- Carefree Industrial Park,

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1600 NM-291 Highway, Sugar Creek/ Independence; Site 5 (1,000 acres, 
5.75 million sq. ft.) -- CARMAR Underground Business Park/CARMAR 
Industrial Park, No. 1 Civil War Road, Carthage; Site 6 (28,000 sq. 
ft., 11 acres) -- Laser Light Technologies, Inc., facility located 
within the Hermann Industrial Park, 5 Danuser Drive, Hermann (expired 
12/31/05); Site 7 (1,750 acres) Richards-Gebaur Memorial Airport/
Industrial Park complex, 1540 Maxwell, Kansas City; Site 8 (13.57 
acres) located at Ryan Road and Brunswick, Chillicothe; Site 8T (6 
acres, 85,000 sq. ft.) - temporary site located at 411 S. Brunswick 
Road, Chillicothe (expires 12/1/08); and, Site 9 (50 acres, 2 parcels) 
St. Joseph: Parcel 1 (200,000 sq. ft., 25 acres) located at 2307 
Alabama Street and Parcel 2 (169,000 sq. ft., 25 acres) located at 2326 
Lower Lake Road.
    The applicant is requesting authority to include additional sites 
in the Kansas City, Missouri area: Expand Site 8 to include an 
additional parcel located at 411 South Brunswick Road, Chillicothe 
(this will include Site 8T on a permanent basis); Proposed Site 10 
(72.31 acres) - warehouse located at 8201 E. 23rd Street, Kansas City; 
Proposed Site 11 (49 acres, 3 parcels) located at an industrial park in 
Grandview: Parcel A (18 acres)-tract of undeveloped land, 13700 S. US 
71 Hwy; Parcel B (9 acres)-tract of undeveloped land, 5610 East 139th 
Street; Parcel C (22 acres)-warehouse located at 13500 15th Street; 
and, Proposed Site 12 (125 acres)- Botts warehouse located at 14100 
Botts Road, Grandview.
    The applicant is also requesting that six acres at Site 8 be 
restored to zone status. (A minor modification was approved in November 
13, 2006 (A(27f)-62-2006) removing six acres from Site 8 to establish 
the temporary site (Site 8T).) The applicant is further requesting to 
remove 183 acres from Site 7 due to changed circumstances (new total - 
1,567 acres). 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 the address below. The closing period 
for their receipt is February 26, 2007. Rebuttal comments in response 
to material submitted during the foregoing period may be submitted 
during the subsequent 15-day period (to March 12, 2007.
    A copy of the application and accompanying exhibits will be 
available for public inspection at each of the following locations: 
U.S. Department of Commerce Export Assistance Center, Suite 650, 2345 
Grand Boulevard, Kansas City, Missouri 64108, and, Office of the 
Executive Secretary, Foreign-Trade Zones Board, Room 2814B, 1401 
Constitution Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20230.

    Dated: December 14, 2006.
Pierre V. Duy,
Acting Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. E6-22079 Filed 12-22-06; 8:45 am]
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