DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Foreign-Trade Zones Board
[Docket No. 36-87]
52 FR 45475
November 30, 1987
Foreign-Trade Zone 124, Gramercy, LA; Application for Expansion
TEXT: An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones Board
(the Board) by the South Louisiana Port Commission (Port Commission),
grantee of Foreign-Trade Zone 124, requesting authority to expand the zone
to include a site in St. Charles Parish, adjacent to the Gramercy 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 19, 1987.
The current zone, approved in December 1985, comprises three sites in the
parishes of St. Charles, St. John the Baptist and St. James (1,050 acres).
The expansion would involve a mixed-used business park site in Destrahan,
Louisiana, known as the Plantation Business Campus (PBC) (213 acres). The
site is located on the east bank of the Mississippi River, bounded by State
Highway 48 at River-Mile-Point 121. It is owned and will be operated by
Joseph C. Canizaro Interests. No manufacturing approvals were sought in the
application.
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; Joel Mish, District
Director, U.S. Customs Service, South Central Region, 423 Canal Street, New
Orleans, Louisiana 70130; and Colonel Lloyd K. Brown, District Engineer,
U.S. Army Engineer District, New Orleans, P.O. Box 60267, New Orleans,
Louisiana 70160-0267.
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 14, 1988.
A copy of the application is available for public inspection at each of
the following locations:
U.S. Department of Commerce, District Office,
432 World Trade Center,
No. 2 Canal Street,
New Orleans, Louisiana 70130
Office of the Executive Secretary,
Foreign-Trade Zones Board,
U.S. Department of Commerce,
14th and Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Room 1529,
Washington, DC 20230.
Dated: November 23, 1987.
John J. Da Ponte, Jr.,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 87-27467 Filed 11-27-87; 8:45 am]
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