Foreign-Trade Zone 20Hampton Roads, VA Area (Norfolk-Newport News Customs Port of Entry); Application for Expansion

COMMISSION ON CIVIL RIGHTS

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

[Docket 30-96]

Foreign-Trade Zone 20--Hampton Roads, VA Area (Norfolk-Newport

News Customs Port of Entry); Application for Expansion

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

(the Board) by the Virginia Port Authority (VPA), grantee of Foreign-

Trade Zone (FTZ) 20, requesting authority to expand its zone at sites

in the Hampton Roads and Front Royal, Virginia areas, adjacent to the

Norfolk-Newport News Customs port of entry area (includes Front Royal

station). The application was submitted pursuant to the provisions of

the FTZ 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 15, 1996.

FTZ 20 was approved on April 15, 1975 (Board Order 105, 40 FR

17884, 4/23/75), and currently consists of three sites: Site 1 (3

acres)--631 Carolina Rd., Suffolk; Site 2 (9 acres)--108 Lakeview

Parkway, Suffolk; and, Site 3 (11 acres)--630 Woodlake, Chesapeake.

The applicant, in a major revision to its zone plan, now requests

authority to expand FTZ 20 to include ten new sites (3,317 acres) in

the Hampton Roads and Front Royal areas, including three marine

terminals, six industrial parks and a warehouse facility: Proposed Site

4 (905 acres)--Norfolk International Terminals (NIT), 7737 Hampton

Blvd., Norfolk; Proposed Site 5 (242 acres)--Portsmouth Marine Terminal

(PMT), 2000 Seaboard Avenue, Portsmouth; Proposed Site 6 (184 acres)--

Newport News Marine Terminal (NNMT), 25th & Warwick Blvd., Newport

News; Proposed Site 7 (6 parcels, 490 acres)--Warren County Industrial

Corridor (Front Royal Site), Routes 340, 522 and 661, Front Royal;

Proposed Site 8 (394 acres)--Bridgeway Commerce Park, Interstate 664,

Suffolk; Proposed Site 9 (689 acres)--Cavalier Industrial Park,

Interstate 64 and U.S. Route 13, Chesapeake; Proposed Site 10 (26

acres)--D.D. Jones Transfer & Warehouse, Inc. facility, 1920

Campostella Road, Chesapeake; Proposed Site 11 (177 acres)--New Boone

Farm Industrial Park, Interstate 664, Chesapeake; Proposed Site 12 (60

acres)--PortCentre Commerce Park, Route 264, Portsmouth; and, Proposed

Site 13 (150 acres)--Suffolk Industrial Park, 595 Carolina Road,

Suffolk. The NIT, PMT, and NNMT terminals, and a site in Front Royal,

are owned by VPA, and the other sites are owned by other area public

entities and private corporations.

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 June 24, 1996. Rebuttal comments in response to

material submitted during the foregoing period may be submitted during

the subsequent 15-day period (to July 9, 1996).

A copy of the application and accompanying exhibits will be

available for public inspection at each of the following locations:

Virginia Port Authority, 600 World Trade Center, Norfolk, Virginia

23510-1696;

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: April 16, 1996

John J. Da Ponte, Jr.,

Executive Secretary.

[FR Doc. 96-10109 Filed 4-24-96; 8:45 am]

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