Foreign-Trade Zone 15, Kansas City, Missouri; Application for Expansion

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

[Docket 39-95]

Foreign-Trade Zone 15, Kansas City, Missouri; Application for

Expansion

An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones Board

(the Board) by the Greater Kansas City Foreign Trade Zone, Inc.,

grantee of Foreign-Trade Zone 15, requesting authority to expand its

zone in the Kansas City, Missouri area, within the Kansas City,

Missouri, 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 July 26, 1995.

FTZ 15 was approved on March 23, 1973 (Board Order 93, 38 FR 8622,

4/4/73) and expanded on October 25, 1974 (Board Order 102, 39 FR 39487,

11/7/74). The zone project includes 3 general-purpose sites in the

Kansas City, Missouri, port of entry area: Site 1 (250,000 sq. ft.)--

Midland International Corp. warehouse, 1650 North Topping, Kansas City;

Site 2 (2,815,000 sq. ft.)--surface/underground warehouse complex, 8300

NE., Underground Drive, Kansas City; and, Site 3 (101,000 sq. ft.)--

Kansas City International Airport, 12600 NW., Prairie View Road, Kansas

City. An application is currently pending with the Board for an

additional site in the Sugar Creek/Independence, Missouri area (Docket

No. 15-95).

The applicant is now requesting authority to expand Site 3 to

include the entire Kansas City International Airport facility (10,000

acres). The property is owned by the Kansas City Aviation Department

and includes 3 air cargo facilities and jet fuel storage/distribution

facilities.

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 (as revised, 56 FR

50790-50808, 10-8-91), 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 [60 days from date of publication]. Rebuttal

comments in response to material submitted during the foregoing period

may be submitted during the subsequent 15-day period (to [75 days from

date of publication]).

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 District Office, 601 East 12th Street, Room

635, Kansas City, Missouri 64106

Office of the Executive Secretary, Foreign-Trade Zones Board, Room

3716, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th and Pennsylvania Avenue, NW.,

Washington, DC 20230

Dated: August 2, 1995.

John J. Da Ponte, Jr.,

Executive Secretary.

[FR Doc. 95-19822 Filed 8-9-95; 8:45 am]

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