Foreign-Trade Zone 21, Charleston, South Carolina; Application for Expansion

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

[Docket 44-95]

Foreign-Trade Zone 21, Charleston, South Carolina; Application

for Expansion

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

(the Board) by the South Carolina State Ports Authority (SCSPA),

grantee of Foreign-Trade Zone 21, Charleston, South Carolina,

requesting authority to expand its zone to include a site in Myrtle

Beach, South Carolina, adjacent to the Georgetown 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 15, 1995.

FTZ 21 was approved on June 12, 1975 (Board Order 106, 40 FR 25613,

6/17/75) and expanded on February 28, 1995 (Board Order 734, 60 FR

12735, 3/8/95). The zone project includes 6 general-purpose sites in

the Charleston, South Carolina, Customs port of entry: Site 1 (134

acres)--Tri-County Industrial Park, Summerville; Site 2 (57 acres)--

Cainhoy Industrial Park, Wando; Site 3 (160 acres)--Crowfield Corporate

Center, Goose Creek; Site 4 (998 acres)--Low Country Regional

Industrial Park, Early Branch; Site 5 (2,017 acres)--SCSPA's terminal

complex, Charleston; Site 6 (19 acres)--Meadow Street Business Park,

Loris; and, Temporary Site (23 acres; expires December 31, 1997)--Wando

Park, Mount Pleasant.

The applicant is now requesting authority to further expand the

general-purpose zone to include an additional site (proposed Site 7--

1,782 acres) at the Myrtle Beach International Airport, including a

portion of the former Myrtle Beach U.S. Air Force Base, Myrtle Beach

(Horry County), South Carolina. The former Air Force Base site is in

the process of being transferred to the Myrtle Beach Air Base

Redevelopment Authority.

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 October 23, 1995. Rebuttal comments in response to

material submitted during the foregoing period may be submitted during

the subsequent 15-day period (to November 6, 1995).

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, 81 Mary Street,

Charleston, South Carolina 29402;

and

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 17, 1995

John J. Da Ponte, Jr.,

Executive Secretary

[FR Doc. 95-20931 Filed 8-22-95; 8:45 am]

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