Foreign-Trade Zone 54, Clinton County, New York; Application for Expansion

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Docket 42-95]

Foreign-Trade Zone 54, Clinton County, New York; Application for

Expansion

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

(the Board) by the Clinton County Area Development Corporation, on

behalf of Clinton County, New York, grantee of Foreign-Trade Zone 54,

requesting authority to expand its zone in the Clinton County, New

York, area, within the Champlain 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 August 9, 1995.

FTZ 54 was approved on February 14, 1980 (Board Order 153, 45 FR

12469) and expanded on September 23, 1982 (Board Order 196, 47 FR

43102). The zone project currently includes 2 general-purpose sites:

Site 1 (123 acres)--Clinton County Air Industrial Park, Plattsburgh;

and, Site 2 (11 acres)--One Trans-Border Drive, Champlain, at I-87 and

U.S. Rt. 11.

The applicant is now requesting authority to further expand the

general-purpose zone to include an additional site (proposed Site 3)--

Champlain Industrial Park (200 acres). The park, which is being

developed by the applicant, is located on New York State Route 11 in

Champlain, New York.

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

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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 October 16, 1995. Rebuttal comments in response to

material submitted during the foregoing period may be submitted during

the subsequent 15-day period (to October 31, 1995).

A copy of the application and accompanying exhibits will be

available for public inspection at each of the following locations:

Clinton County Area Development Corp., 61 Area Development Drive,

Plattsburgh, New York 12901

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 11, 1995.

John J. Da Ponte, Jr.,

Executive Secretary.

[FR Doc. 95-20438 Filed 8-16-95; 8:45 am]

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