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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Foreign-Trade Zones Board
[Docket 39-97]
Foreign-Trade Zone 98--Birmingham, Alabama; Application for
Expansion
An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones (FTZ)
Board (the Board) by the City of Birmingham, Alabama, grantee of
Foreign-Trade Zone 98, requesting authority to expand FTZ 98 to include
additional sites in Birmingham, within the Birmingham 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
April 29, 1997.
FTZ 98 was approved on April 27, 1984 (Board Order 247, 49 FR
19367, 5/7/84) and expanded on May 8, 1986 (Board Order 330, 51 FR
17782, 5/15/86). The general-purpose zone currently consists of two
sites in Birmingham: Site 1 (116 acres)--within the 442-acre Airport
North/Northeast Industrial Park, adjacent to the Birmingham
International Airport; and Site 2 (10 acres)--Shaw Warehouse Company
facilities on 2nd Avenue South, 113-115 South 35th, and 3601 First
Avenue South.
The applicant, in a major revision to its zone plan, now requests
authority to expand the general-purpose zone to include six new sites
in Birmingham (Proposed Sites 3-8): Site 3 (283 acres)--``ACIPCO''
industrial area (owned by the City), Coalburg Road and Daniel Payne
Drive, Birmingham; Site 4 (29 acres)--Oxmoor Industrial Park (owned by
the City), Oxmoor West Industrial Drive, Birmingham; Site 5 (50
acres)--Air Cargo facility, Birmingham International Airport,
Birmingham; Site 6 (128,000 square feet, 13.9 acres)--Pizitz/McRae's
Warehouse, 4500 First Avenue South, Birmingham; Site 7 (100 acres)--
Munger/Valley East II Industrial Park (owned by the City), immediately
adjacent to the Valley East Industrial Park, Alabama Highway 79 and
Sterilite Drive, Birmingham; and, Site 8 (32 acres)--Airport Industrial
Center (owned by Landonomics Group), adjacent to Birmingham
International Airport, East Lake Boulevard, Birmingham. 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 July 14, 1997. Rebuttal comments in response to
material submitted during the foregoing period may be submitted during
the subsequent 15-day period (to July 29, 1997).
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, Medical Forum
Building, 7th Floor, 950 22nd Street North, Birmingham, Alabama 35203
Office of the Executive Secretary, Foreign-Trade Zones Board, Room
3716, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th & Pennsylvania Avenue NW.,
Washington, DC 20230.
Dated: May 8, 1997.
John J. Da Ponte, Jr.,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 97-12795 Filed 5-14-97; 8:45 am]
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