DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Foreign-Trade Zones Board
[Docket No. 34-87]
52 FR 45003
November 24, 1987
Foreign-Trade Zone 29, Louisville, KY; Application for Expansion
TEXT: An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones Board
(the Board) by the Louisville and Jefferson County Riverport Authority
(Riverport Authority), grantee of Foreign-Trade Zone 29, requesting
authority to expand the zone in Jefferson County, adjacent to the Louisville
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
November 16, 1987.
The existing zone, approved in May 1977, covers a 12-acre site within the
1,700-acre Riverport Industrial Complex. The expansion would embrace 1,307
additional acres within the industrial complex, and add a 675-acre site
located at the junction of the Gene Snyder Freeway and LaGrange Road in
eastern Jefferson County. The latter site is owned by the Jefferson County
Economic Redevelopment Corporation. No approvals for manufacturing have been
requested.
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: Joseph Lowry (Chairman), Foreign-Trade Zones Staff,
U.S. Department of Commerce, Washington, DC 20230; John Nelson, District
Director, U.S. Customs Service, North Central Region, 6th Floor, Plaza Nine
Bldg., 55 Erieview Plaza, Cleveland, OH 44114; and Colonel Robert L. Oliver,
District Engineer, U.S. Army Engineer District Louisville, P.O. Box 59,
Louisville, Kentucky 40201-0059.
Comments concerning the proposed expansion are invited in writing from
interested parties. They should be addressed to the Board's Executive
Secretary at the address below and postmarked on or before January 7, 1988.
A copy of the application is available for public inspection at each of
the following locations:
U.S. Department of Commerce District Office,
Gene Snyder Courthouse and Customhouse Bldg.,
Room 636 B, 601 West Broadway,
Louisville, KY 40202
Office of the Executive Secretary,
Foreign-Trade Zones Board,
U.S. Department of Commerce,
14th & Pennsylvania Avenue NW., Room 1529,
Washington, DC 20230.
Dated: November 19, 1987.
John J. Da Ponte, Jr.,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 87-27023 Filed 11-23-87; 8:45 am]
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