[Federal Register Volume 74, Number 105 (Wednesday, June 3, 2009)]
[Notices]
[Pages 26652-26653]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E9-12965]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Docket 23-2009]


Foreign-Trade Zone 119--Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN; Application for 
Expansion

    An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones Board 
(the Board) by the Greater Metropolitan Area Foreign Trade Zone 
Commission, grantee of Foreign-Trade Zone 119, requesting authority to 
expand its zone to include additional sites in the Minneapolis-St. 
Paul, Minnesota area. The application was submitted pursuant to the 
provisions of the FTZ Act, as amended (19 U.S.C. 81a-81u), and the 
regulations of the Board (15 CFR Part 400). It was formally filed on 
May 21, 2009.
    FTZ 119 was approved by the Board on July 24, 1985 (Board Order 
305, 50 FR 31404, 8/2/85) and was expanded on April 14, 1994 (Board 
Order 690, 59 FR 19692, 4/25/94). The general-purpose zone consists of 
the following sites: Site 1 (3,238 acres)--two adjacent parcels--Parcel 
1A within the 3,002-acre Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport, 
6040 28th Avenue (500-acre activation limit) and Parcel 1B (236 acres) 
within the Bloomington Airport Industrial Park, southeast corner of the 
intersection of I-494 and State Highway 77, Bloomington; Site 2 (960 
acres)--Mid-City Industrial Park, 701 24th Avenue, Minneapolis; Site 3 
(13 acres)--Eagan Industrial Park, 3703 Kennebec Drive, Eagan; Site 4 
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acres)--Minneapolis Convention Center, located at 1301 Second Avenue 
South, Minneapolis. Sites 5 and 6 have expired.
    The applicant is now requesting to expand the zone to include 
additional sites in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area: Proposed Site 7 (193 
acres)--Chaska Bio-Science Corporate Campus, located at the 
intersection of Carver County Road 10 and New U.S. Highway 212, Chaska; 
and, Proposed Site 8 (200 acres)--Elk Run Bio-Business Park, located on 
the north side of U.S. Highway 52, approximately 2 miles southeast of 
the City of Pine Island. The sites are owned by the City of Chaska and 
Tower Investments, LLC, respectively. The sites will provide 
warehousing and distribution services to area businesses. 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, Kathleen Boyce of the 
FTZ Staff is 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 listed below. The closing 
period for their receipt is August 3, 2009. Rebuttal comments in 
response to material submitted during the foregoing period may be 
submitted during the subsequent 15-day period (to August 17, 2009).
    A copy of the application 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 Kathleen Boyce at [email protected] or (202) 482-1346.

    Dated: May 21, 2009.
Andrew McGilvray,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. E9-12965 Filed 6-2-09; 8:45 am]
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