64FR44891 Foreign-Trade Zone 8--Toledo, Ohio Area Application for Expansion
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Posting-number: Volume 64, Issue 159, Page 44891
[Federal Register: August 18, 1999 (Volume 64, Number 159)]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Foreign-Trade Zones Board
[Docket 40-99]
Foreign-Trade Zone 8--Toledo, Ohio Area Application for Expansion
An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones (FTZ)
Board (the Board) by the Toledo-Lucas County Port Authority, grantee of
Foreign-Trade Zone 8, requesting authority to expand its zone in the
Toledo, Ohio area, within the Toledo/Sandusky Customs 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
August 5, 1999.
FTZ 8 was approved on October 11, 1960 (Board Order 51, 25 FR 9909,
10/15/60) and expanded on January 22, 1973 (Board Order 92, 38 FR 3015,
1/31/73); January 11, 1985 (Board Order 277, 50 FR 2702,1/18/85); and,
August 19, 1991 (Board Order 532, 56 FR 42026, 8/26/91). The general-
purpose zone currently consists of 2 sites (487 acres) in the Toledo
area: Site 1 (150 acres)--within the Port of Toledo complex at the
Overseas Cargo Center, Toledo; and, Site 2 (337 acres)--at the Toledo
Express
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Airport, in Swanton, Ohio, some 5 miles west of Toledo.
The applicant is now requesting authority to expand the general-
purpose zone to include an additional site: Proposed Site 3 (10
acres)--at the First Choice Packaging warehouse facility (owned by
Eveready Battery Company, Inc.), 1501 West State Street, Fremont. The
facility will be operated by First Choice as a public warehouse
facility with packaging services.
No specific manufacturing requests are being made at this time.
Such requests would be made to the Board on a case-by-case basis.
In accordance with the Board's regulations, a member of the FTZ
Staff has been designated examiner to investigate the application and
report to the Board.
Public comment on the application 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 18, 1999. Rebuttal comments in response to
material submitted during the foregoing period may be submitted during
the subsequent 15-day period (November 1, 1999).
A copy of the application and accompanying exhibits will be
available for public inspection at each of the following locations:
Office of the Toledo-Lucas County, Port Authority, One Maritime Plaza,
7th Floor, Toledo, OH 43604-1866
Office of the Executive Secretary, Foreign-Trade Zones Board, Room
3716, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th & Pennsylvania Avenue, NW,
Washington, DC 20230
Dated: August 10, 1999.
Diane Finver,
Acting Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 99-21459 Filed 8-17-99; 8:45 am]
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