[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 61 (Thursday, March 29, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Pages 19002-19003]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-7590]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Docket 21-2012]


Foreign-Trade Zone 158--Vicksburg/Jackson, MS; Application for 
Expansion

    An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones Board 
(the Board) by the Greater Mississippi Foreign-Trade Zone, Inc. 
(grantee of FTZ 158), requesting authority to expand the zone to 
include a site in Gluckstadt and Madison, Mississippi. 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 23, 2012.
    FTZ 158 was established by the Board on April 11, 1989 (Board Order 
430, 54 FR 15480, 4/18/89), and expanded on October 23, 1994 (Board 
Order 707, 59 FR 54885, 11/2/94), and on March 8, 2005 (Board Order 
1378, 70 FR 13449, 3/21/05). The zone currently consists of 17 sites 
(8,645 acres total): Site 1 (353 acres)--Emmitte W. Haining Industrial 
Center, Warren County; Site 2 (2,242 acres)--within the Jackson 
International Airport complex, Jackson; Site 3 (1,286 acres)--Ceres 
Research and Industrial Interplex on I-20, Warren County; Site 4 (230 
acres)--Vicksburg Airport Industrial Park, Vicksburg; Site 5 (544 
acres)--Greater Jackson Industrial Center on I-55, south of Jackson in 
Hinds County; Site 6 (559 acres)--Hawkins Field Industrial Park, south 
of I-220/U.S. 49 Interchange, Jackson; Site 7 (350 acres)--Northwest 
Industrial Park, one mile north of I-220/U.S. 49 Interchange, north of 
Jackson in Hinds County; Site 8 (39 acres)--within the Senatobia 
Industrial Park, located at the intersection of Shands Bottom Road and 
Scott Street Extension, adjacent to Interstate Highway 55, Senatobia; 
Site 9 (64 acres, 3 parcels)--within the Greenville Industrial Park at 
1265 Wasson Drive (17 acres), at 1945 N. Theobald Street (20 acres) and 
at 1795 N. Theobald Street (26 acres), Greenville; Site 10 (989 acres, 
sunset 3/31/2012)--within the 1,479-acre Airport Industrial Park, 
located adjacent to the Tupelo Regional Airport, Tupelo; Site 11 (277 
acres, sunset 3/31/2012)--within the 403-acre South Green Industrial 
complex located adjacent to U.S. Highway 45 and the Kansas City 
Southern Railroad and South Green Street, Tupelo; Site 12 (5 acres, 
sunset 3/31/2012)--within the 36-acre South Green Extend Industrial 
Complex located along South Green Street immediately west of South 
Gloster Street (MS 145), Tupelo; Site 13 (56 acres, sunset 3/31/2012)--
within the 164-acre Tupelo Industrial Center located at the 
intersection of Eason Boulevard and the Burlington Northern Railroad, 
Tupelo; Site 14 (128 acres, sunset 3/31/2012)--within the 990-acre 
Burlington Northern Industrial Park located along the Burlington 
Northern Railroad and U.S. Highway 78 (I-22) and MS Highway 178 
interchange, City of Tupelo/Lee County; Site 15 (699 acres, sunset 3/
31/2012)--within the 1,315-acre Harry A. Martin North Lee Industrial 
Complex located at the intersection of U.S. Highway 45 and Pratts Road, 
City of Baldwyn/Lee County; Site 16 (284 acres, sunset 3/31/2012)--
within the 429-acre Turner Industrial Park located at the U.S. Highway 
45 and MS Highway 145 interchange adjacent and south of the City of 
Saltillo; and, Site 17 (540 acres, sunset 3/31/2012)--within the 1,066-
acre Tupelo Lee Industrial Park South located at the U.S. Highway 45 
and Brewer Road interchange south of the City of Verona. (An expansion 
application is currently pending (Doc. 70-2010) to include additional 
acreage at existing Site 8 in Senatobia.)
    The applicant is requesting authority to expand the zone to include 
a site in Madison County: Proposed Site 18 (139.61 acres)--within the 
528-acre Central Mississippi Industrial Center located at Interstate 55 
and Gluckstadt Road in the Cities of Gluckstadt and Madison. The site 
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, 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 
May 29, 2012. Rebuttal comments in response to material submitted 
during the foregoing period

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may be submitted during the subsequent 15-day period to June 12, 2012.
    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 www.trade.gov/ftz. For 
further information, contact Camille Evans at [email protected] 
or (202) 482-2350.

    Dated: March 23, 2012
Andrew McGilvray,
Executive Secretary.
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