DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Foreign-Trade Zones Board
[Docket No. 35-85]
50 FR 41545
October 11, 1985
Foreign-Trade Zone 2 -- New Orleans, LA; Application for Expansion
TEXT: An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones Board
(the Board) by the Board of Commissioners of the Port of New Orleans (the
Port), grantee of Foreign-Trade Zone 2, requesting authority to expand its
zone to include an industrial park site in New Orleans, within the New
Orleans 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 September 30, 1985.
On July 16, 1946, the Port received authority from the Board to
establish a foreign-trade zone in New Orleans (Board Order 12, 11 FR 8235,
7/31/46). In 1984 the Board authorized a new 76-acre site within the
Almonaster-Michoud Industrial District on the Inner Harbor Navigation
Canal and the Mississippi River Gulf Outlet (Board Order 245, 49 FR 15006,
4/16/84).
The Port is now requesting an industrial park site for large scale users
that cannot be accommodated at the approved facilities. The proposed
expansion site involves the 700-acre Newport Industrial Park, adjacent to
the Almonaster-Michoud Industrial District on the Mississippi River Gulf
Outlet at Bayou Bienvenue in New Orleans.
In accordance with the Board's regulations, an examiners committee has
been appointed to investigate the application and report to the Board. The
committee consists of: Dennis Puccinelli (Chairman), Foreign-Trade Zones
Staff, U.S. Department of Commerce, Washington, D.C. 20230; Joel Mish,
District Director, U.S. Customs Service, South Central Region, 423 Canal
St., New Orleans, LA 70130; and Colonel Eugene S. Witherspoon, District
Engineer, U.S. Army Engineer District New Orleans, P.O. Box 60267, New
Orleans, LA 70160.
Comments concerning the proposed zone expansion are invited in writing
from interested persons and organizations. They should be addressed to the
Board's Executive Secretary at the address below and postmarked on or
before November 11, 1985.
A copy of the application is available for public inspection at each of
the following locations:
U.S. Dept. of Commerce District Office,
432 International Trade Mart,
2 Canal Street,
New Orleans, LA 70130
Office of the Executive Secretary,
Foreign-Trade Zones Board,
U.S. Department of Commerce, Room 1529,
14th and Pennsylvania, N.W.,
Washington, D.C. 20230
Dated: October 7, 1985.
John J. Da Ponte, Jr.,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 85-24421 Filed 10-10-85; 8:45 am]
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