[Federal Register Volume 74, Number 208 (Thursday, October 29, 2009)]
[Notices]
[Pages 55813-55814]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E9-26101]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Docket 45-2009]


Foreign-Trade Zone 17--Kansas City, KS; Application for 
Reorganization/Expansion Under Alternative Site Framework

    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 reorganize the zone under 
the alternative site framework (ASF) adopted by the Board (74 FR 1170, 
1/12/09; correction 74 FR 3987, 1/22/09). The ASF is an option for 
grantees for the establishment or reorganization of general-purpose 
zones and can permit significantly greater flexibility in the 
designation of new ``usage-driven'' FTZ sites for operators/users 
located within a grantee's ``service area'' in the context of the 
Board's standard 2,000-acre activation limit for a general-purpose zone 
project. The application was submitted pursuant to 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 22, 2009.
    FTZ 17 was approved by the Board on December 20, 1973 (Board Order 
97, 39 FR 26, 1/2/74), and expanded in January 1989 (Board Order 428, 
54 FR 5992, 2/7/89), in January 1993 (Board Order 631, 58 FR 6112, 1/
26/93), and in October 1997 (Board Order 925, 62 FR 55574, 10/27/97). 
The current zone project includes the following sites: Site 1 (7.5 
acres)--located at 6500 Inland Drive, Kansas City; Site 2 (5.1 acres)--
located at 5203 Speaker Road, Kansas City; Site 3 (5 acres)--located at 
30 Funston Road, Kansas City; Site 4 (50,000 sq. ft.)--located at 830 
Kindleberger Road, Kansas City; Site 5 (21 acres, 2 parcels)--within 
the Leavenworth Area Business Center, located at 13th and Eisenhower 
Road, Leavenworth; Site 6 (966 acres)--Forbes Field Airport/Topeka Air 
Industrial Park, 6700 South Topeka Boulevard, Topeka; Site 7 (106 
acres)--The Phillip Billard Airport/Industrial Park Complex, 3600 
Sardue, Topeka; and, Site 8 (50 acres)--Coleman Corporation within the 
Midwest Commerce Center, 17150 Mercury Street, Gardner. (There is an 
application pending with the Board to expand Site 8 to include the 
entire 156-acre Midwest Commerce Center (Doc. 16-2009).)
    The grantee's proposed service area under the ASF would be 
Wyandotte, Johnson, Douglas, Shawnee, Leavenworth and Miami Counties, 
Kansas. If approved, the grantee would be able to serve sites 
throughout the service area based on companies' needs for FTZ 
designation. The proposed service area is within and adjacent to the 
Kansas City Customs and Border Protection port of entry.
    The applicant is requesting authority to reorganize its existing 
zone project as follows: Sites 2, 3, 5, 6, 7 and 8 would become 
``magnet'' sites; Site 4 would become a ``usage-driven'' site; and, 
Site 1 would be removed from the zone project due to changed 
circumstances.

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The applicant is also requesting approval of two ``usage-driven'' sites 
in Johnson County: Proposed Site 9 (6.64 acres)--Bushnell Outdoor 
Products, 9200 Cody, Overland Park; and, Proposed Site 10 (2.4 acres)--
Bushnell Outdoor Products, 10716 West 78th Street, Shawnee. Proposed 
Site 9 is located within the Congleton Industrial Park and proposed 
Site 10 is located within the Nieman Business Park.
    In accordance with the Board's regulations, Camille Evans of the 
FTZ Staff is designated examiner to evaluate and analyze the facts and 
information presented in the application and case record and to report 
findings and recommendations 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 below. The closing period for their receipt is 
December 28, 2009. Rebuttal comments in response to material submitted 
during the foregoing period may be submitted during the subsequent 15-
day period to January 12, 2010.
    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 Camille Evans at [email protected] 
or (202) 482-2350.

    Dated: October 22, 2009.
Andrew McGilvray,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. E9-26101 Filed 10-28-09; 8:45 am]
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