[Federal Register Volume 74, Number 74 (Monday, April 20, 2009)]
[Notices]
[Pages 17953-17954]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E9-9041]


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 DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Docket 16-2009]


Foreign-Trade Zone 17--Kansas City, KS Area; Application for 
Expansion

    An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones (FTZ) 
Board (the Board) by the Greater Kansas City Foreign Trade Zone, Inc., 
grantee of FTZ 17, requesting authority to expand the zone in the 
Kansas City, Kansas, area, adjacent to the Kansas City Customs and 
Border Protection 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 13, 2009.
    FTZ 17 was approved by the Board on December 20, 1973 (Board Order 
97, 39 FR 26, 1/2/74) and expanded on January 31, 1989 (Board Order 
428, 54 FR 5992, 2/7/89), on January 15, 1993 (Board Order 631, 58 FR 
6122 1/26/93), and, on October 14, 1997 (Board Order 925, 62 FR 55574, 
10/27/97). The general-purpose zone project currently consists of 7 
sites (3,411 acres total): Site 1 (7 acres)--located at 6500 Inland 
Drive in Kansas City; Site 2 (5 acres)--located at 5203 Speaker Road in 
Kansas City; Site 3 (5 acres)--within the Fairfax Industrial Park 
located at 30 Funston Road in Kansas City; Site 4 (1 acre)--within the 
Fairfax Industrial Park located at 830 Kindleberger Road in Kansas 
City; Site 5 (21 acres, 2 parcels)--within the Leavenworth Area

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Business Center located at 13th and Eisenhower Road in Leavenworth; 
Site 6 (2,400 acres)--located at the Forbes Field Airport/Topeka Air 
Industrial Park in Topeka; and, Site 7 (972 acres)--the Philip Billard 
Airport/Industrial Park located at 6700 South Topeka Boulevard in 
Topeka.
    The applicant is now requesting authority to expand the general-
purpose zone to include the Midwest Commerce Center, located at 17150 
Mercury Street in Gardner, Kansas (Johnson County). The proposed new 
site (156 acres) would be designated as Site 8. The site is owned by 
U.S. Industrial REIT II, and will be used for warehousing, storage and 
distribution activities. 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, Christopher Kemp of the 
FTZ staff is designated examiner to investigate the application and 
report to the Board.
    Public comment is invited from interested parties. Submissions 
(original and 3 copies) shall be addressed to the Board's Executive 
Secretary at the address listed below. The closing period for their 
receipt is June 19, 2009. Rebuttal comments in response to material 
submitted during the foregoing period may be submitted during the 
subsequent 15-day period (to July 6, 2009).
    A copy of the application and accompanying exhibits will be 
available for public inspection at the Office of the Executive 
Secretary, Foreign-Trade Zones Board, Room 2111, U.S. Department of 
Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20230-0002, and 
in the ``Reading Room'' section of the Board's Web site, which is 
accessible via http://www.trade.gov/ftz. For further information, 
contact Christopher Kemp at [email protected] or (202) 482-
0862.

    Dated: April 13, 2009.
Andrew McGilvray,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. E9-9041 Filed 4-17-09; 8:45 am]
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