[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 51 (Wednesday, March 17, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Page 12731]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-5850]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Docket 13-2010]


Foreign-Trade Zone 204--Tri-Cities Area, Tennessee/Virginia; 
Application for Expansion

    An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones (FTZ) 
Board (the Board) by the Tri-Cities Airport Commission, grantee of FTZ 
204, requesting authority to expand its zone to include a site in 
Bristol, Tennessee in the Tri-Cities Area, Tennessee/Virginia, adjacent 
to the Tri-Cities 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 March 4, 2010.
    FTZ 204 was approved on October 18, 1994 (Board Order 706, 59 FR 
54432, 10/31/94) and expanded on June 7, 2002 (Board Order 1233, 67 FR 
41393, 06/18/02).
    The zone project currently consists of the following sites in the 
Tri-Cities Area of Tennessee and Virginia: Site 1 (977 acres)--within 
the Tri-Cities Regional Airport complex, Blountville (Sullivan County), 
Tennessee; Site 2 (26 acres)--402 Steel Street, Johnson City 
(Washington County), Tennessee; Site 3 (330 acres)--Northeast Tennessee 
Business Park, adjacent to the Tri-Cities Regional Airport, at the 
intersection of TN 357 and Highway 75, Kingsport (Sullivan County), 
Tennessee; Site 4 (129 acres)--Bristol Tennessee Industrial Park, 
Bristol (Sullivan County), Tennessee; Site 5 (799 acres)--Tri-County 
Industrial Park, Piney Flats (Sullivan County), Tennessee; Site 6 (206 
acres)--Regional Med-Tech Center, Johnson City (Washington County), 
Tennessee; Site 7 (103 acres)--Linden/Hairston Industrial Park, Linden 
Drive at Bonham Rd., Bristol, Virginia; Site 8 (2,100 acres)--Holston 
Business and Technology Park, 4509 West Stone Drive, Kingsport (Hawkins 
County), Tennessee; Site 9 (134 acres)--Washington County Industrial 
Park, Cherry Hill Road, Johnson City (Washington County), Tennessee; 
and, Site 10 (113 acres)--within the 306-acre Oak Park Industrial Park, 
Westinghouse Road and Oak Park Drive, Washington County, Virginia 
(expires 8/31/12).
    The applicant is requesting authority to expand the zone to include 
an additional site in the Tri-Cities area: Proposed Site 11 (226 
acres)--Partnership Park II, 2504 Weaver Pike, Bristol, Tennessee. The 
site will provide public 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 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 
May 17, 2010. Rebuttal comments in response to material submitted 
during the foregoing period may be submitted during the subsequent 15-
day period (to June 1, 2010).
    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 Kathleen Boyce at 
[email protected] or 202-482-1346.

    Dated: February 24, 2010.
Andrew McGilvray,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2010-5850 Filed 3-16-10; 8:45 am]
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