[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 51 (Wednesday, March 17, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Pages 12729-12730]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-5852]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Docket 15-2010]


Foreign-Trade Zone 133--Quad-Cities, Iowa/Illinois; Application 
for Expansion

    An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones Board 
(the Board) by the Quad-City Foreign Trade Zone, Inc., grantee of FTZ 
133, requesting authority to expand the zone within the Davenport-Rock 
Island-Moline 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 5, 2010.
    FTZ 133 was approved on October 29, 1986 (Board Order 338, 51 FR 
40238, 11/5/86). After a subsequent minor boundary modification was 
approved on June 27, 1997 (A(27f)-26-1997), the general-purpose zone 
currently consists of 23-acres within the River Cities Business Park, 
located at 200 East 90th Street, Davenport (Scott County), Iowa.
    The applicant is now requesting authority to expand the existing 
site and to include four additional sites in the area: Existing Site 
1--expand to include the entire River Cities Business Park (223 acres); 
Proposed Site 2 (33 acres)--within Rock Island Arsenal, located at 1775 
East Street, Rock Island (Rock Island County), Illinois; Proposed Site 
3 (55 acres)--warehouse complex owned by Modern Warehousing, LLC, 
located at 801 1st Street East, Milan (Rock Island County), Illinois; 
Proposed Site 4 (200 acres)--Eastern Iowa Industrial Center, located 
northeast of Interstate 80 and Highway 130, Davenport (Scott

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County), Iowa; and; Proposed Site 5 (187 acres)--Iowa Research Commerce 
& Technology Park, located northwest of Interstate 80 and Highway 61, 
Davenport (Scott County), Iowa. 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, Claudia Hausler 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 receipts 
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 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 Claudia Hausler at 
[email protected] or 202-482-1379.

    Dated: March 5, 2010.
Andrew McGilvray,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2010-5852 Filed 3-16-10; 8:45 am]
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