[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 158 (Tuesday, August 16, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Pages 50717-50718]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-20836]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Docket 53-2011]


Foreign-Trade Zone 74, Baltimore, MD; Application for 
Reorganization/Expansion Under Alternative Site Framework

    An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones (FTZ) 
Board (the Board) by the Baltimore Development Corporation on behalf of 
the City of Baltimore, grantee of FTZ 74, requesting authority to 
reorganize and expand the zone under the alternative site framework 
(ASF) adopted by the Board (74 FR 1170-1173, 01/12/09 (correction 74 FR 
3987, 01/22/09); 75 FR 71069-71070, 11/22/10)). 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 August 10, 2011.
    FTZ 74 was approved by the Board on January 21, 1982 (Board Order 
183, 47 FR 5737, 2/8/82), and expanded on January 31, 1989 (Board Order 
427, 54 FR 5992, 2/7/89), on April 5, 2001 (Board Order 1157, 66 FR 
19423, 4/16/01), and on December 9, 2005 (Board Order 1424, 70 FR 
76023, 12/22/05).
    The current zone project includes the following sites: Site 1 (20 
acres)--Holabird Industrial Park, Baltimore; Site 2 (127 acres)--within 
the Point Breeze Business Center, 2500 Broening Highway, Baltimore; 
Site 3 (167.6 acres)--within the Seagirt Marine Terminal, Baltimore; 
Site 4 (287.5 acres)--Dundalk Marine Terminal, located on Broening 
Highway, Baltimore; Site 5 (97 acres)--Chesapeake Terminal and American 
Port Services Center, Baltimore; Site 6 (274 acres)--Atlantic and 
Fairfield

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Terminals, Baltimore; Site 7 (196 acres)--North & South Locust Point 
Terminals, Baltimore; Site 8 (157 acres)--Rukert and Clinton Street 
Marine Terminals, Baltimore; Site 9 (15 acres)--Belt's Business Center, 
600 Folcroft Street, Baltimore; Site 10 (81 acres)--Pulaski Business 
Park, 6200 Pulaski Highway, Baltimore; Site 11 (12 acres)--Obrecht 
Business Center, 6200 Frankford Avenue, Baltimore; Site 12 (32 acres 
total)--three parcels located in Baltimore at 1200 South Newkirk Street 
(14 acres), at 4200 Boston Street (2 acres), and at 16 acres adjacent 
to Newkirk and Boston Streets; Site 13 (100 acres)--Marley Neck 
Industrial Park, 6600 Cabot Drive, Baltimore; Site 14 (91 acres)--
Enterprise Business Park, 1501 Perryman Road, Perryman; Site 15 (8 
acres, expires 2/1/12)--5107 North Point Boulevard, Sparrows Point; 
Site 16 (3.71 acres, expires 2/1/12)--5003 Holabird Avenue, Baltimore; 
Site 17 (5.06 acres, expires 2/1/12)--7700 Rolling Mill Road, 
Baltimore; Site 18 (10.19 acres, expires 2/1/12)--8200/8203 Fischer 
Road, Baltimore; Site 19 (12.39 acres, expires 2/1/12)--4501 Curtis 
Avenue, Baltimore; Site 20 (4 acres, expires 4/2/12)--1200 E. Patapsco 
Avenue, Baltimore; Site 21 (15.5 acres, expires 4/2/12)--3501 E. Biddle 
Street, Baltimore; Site 22 (4.94 acres, expires 9/30/12)--3901-4001 
Dillon Street, Baltimore; Site 23 (7.4 acres, expires 12/31/12)--3400 
E. Biddle Street, Baltimore; and, Site 24 (2.9 acres, expires 12/31/
12)--8004 Stansbury Road, Dundalk.
    The grantee's proposed service area under the ASF would be the City 
of Baltimore and the Counties of Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Cecil and 
Harford, Maryland. 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 
Baltimore Customs and Border Protection port of entry. Because the ASF 
only pertains to establishing or reorganizing a general-purpose zone, 
the application would have no impact on FTZ 74's authorized subzones.
    The applicant is requesting authority to reorganize and expand its 
existing zone project under the ASF as follows: remove Sites 1, 3, 5, 
10, 11 and 14 due to changed circumstances; expand the boundaries of 
Sites 4, 16 and 17; reduce the boundaries of Sites 2, 6, 7, 8, 12 and 
13; and, redesignate a 20-acre portion of Site 8 as Site 25. Sites 2, 4 
and 16 would become ``magnet'' sites and Sites 6-9, 12, 13, 15 and 17-
25 would become ``usage-driven'' sites. The companies located at the 
``usage-driven'' sites are: Trade Zone Operations (Site 6); C. Steinweg 
(Baltimore) (Sites 7 & 15); Rukert Terminals (Site 8); Belt's 
Corporation (Site 9); Henry Bath (Site 12); Under Armour (Site 13); 
Pacorini Metals (Sites 17 & 25); Ruxton Services (Sites 18 & 19); S.H. 
Bell Company Baltimore (Sites 20 & 21); Overflo Warehouse (Site 22); 
White Marsh Transport (Site 23); and Edgemere Terminals (Site 24).
    The applicant is also requesting approval of a new ``magnet'' site 
and four new ``usage-driven'' sites: Proposed Site 26 (146 acres)--
Sparrows Point Shipyard, 600 Shipyard Road, Baltimore (Baltimore 
County); Proposed Site 27 (2.3 acres)--J. D. Neuhaus, LP, 9 Loveton 
Circle, Sparks (Baltimore County); Proposed Site 28 (2.5 acres)--
McCormick & Company, Inc., 11102 McCormick Road, Hunt Valley (Baltimore 
County); Proposed Site 29 (17.6 acres)--McCormick & Company, Inc., 
10901 Gilroy Road, Hunt Valley (Baltimore County); and, Proposed Site 
30 (8.48 acres)--McCormick & Company, Inc., 4607 Appliance Drive, 
Belcamp (Harford County).
    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 
October 31, 2011. Rebuttal comments in response to material submitted 
during the foregoing period may be submitted during the subsequent 15-
day period to October 31, 2011.
    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: August 10, 2011.
Andrew McGilvray,
Executive Secretary.
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