Foreign-Trade Zone 8Toledo, Ohio Area Application for Expansion

[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 159 (Wednesday, August 18, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 44891-44892]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-21459]


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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 
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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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