Foreign-Trade Zone 138Columbus, Ohio, Area; Application for Expansion

[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 241 (Wednesday, December 16, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Page 69261]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-33328]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board
[Docket 55-98]


Foreign-Trade Zone 138--Columbus, Ohio, Area; Application for 
Expansion

    An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones (FTZ) 
Board (the Board), by the Rickenbacker Port Authority (RPA), grantee of 
Foreign-Trade Zone 138, requesting authority to expand its zone to 
include additional sites in Columbus and Lima, Ohio, adjacent to the 
Columbus 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 December 4, 1998.
    FTZ 138 was approved on March 13, 1987 (Board Order 351, 52 FR 
9319, 3/24/87) and expanded on February 23, 1994 (Board Order 685, 59 
FR 10783, 3/8/94). The general-purpose zone consists of a site (1,926 
acres--3 parcels) at the Rickenbacker International Airport in Franklin 
County.
    The applicant is now requesting authority to expand the general-
purpose zone to increase the approved area at its existing site and to 
include a new site in Lima, Ohio: Site 1--include an additional parcel 
(2,787 acres) at the Rickenbacker International Airport, Franklin 
County; and, Proposed Site 2 (136 acres, 3 adjacent parcels)--
industrial park project, McClain Road, Lima (Allen County). The 
proposed expansion area at Rickenbacker Airport is part of a former 
U.S. Air Force Base which is owned by the U.S. Air Force but is under 
the control of RPA. The land will eventually be transferred to RPA. The 
Lima site is owned by the Allen County Port Authority and will be 
developed as an industrial park. 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 February 16, 1999. Rebuttal comments in response 
to material submitted during the foregoing period may be submitted 
during the subsequent 15-day period (to March 1, 1999).
    A copy of the application and accompanying exhibits will be 
available for public inspection at each of the following locations:

U.S. Department of Commerce, Export Assistance Center, International 
Trade Administration, US&FCS, 37 North High Street, 4th Floor, 
Columbus, Ohio 43215
Office of the Executive Secretary, Foreign-Trade Zones Board, Room 
3716, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th & Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, 
Washington, DC 20230.

    Dated: December 7, 1998.
Dennis Puccinelli,
Acting Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 98-33328 Filed 12-15-98; 8:45 am]
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