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

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Docket 62-96]

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 in the Charleston, South

Carolina area, within the Charleston 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, 1996.

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) and June 20, 1996 (Board Order 832, 61 FR 33491, 6/27/

96). The zone project includes 8 general-purpose sites in the coastal

area of South Carolina: 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; Site 7 (1,782 acres)--

Myrtle Beach International Airport (portion of the former Myrtle Beach

U.S. Air Force Base), Myrtle Beach; and, Site 8 (23 acres; expires 12/

31/97)--within Wando Park, Mount Pleasant. An application is currently

pending with the Board for an additional site (proposed Site 9) in

Charleston, South Carolina (Docket No. 72-95, filed 11/7/95).

The applicant is now requesting authority to expand and remove the

time limit for Site 8 (82 acres) at Wando Park, Wando Park Boulevard,

Mount Pleasant. The property is owned by Wando Park Ltd. Partnership

and Molasses Creek Management Corporation.

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 21, 1996. Rebuttal comments in response to

material submitted during the foregoing period may be submitted during

the subsequent 15-day period (to November 4, 1996).

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, 81 Mary Street,

Charleston, South Carolina 29402.

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

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

Washington, DC 20230.

Dated: August 14, 1996.

John J. Da Ponte, Jr.,

Executive Secretary.

[FR Doc. 96-21336 Filed 8-20-96; 8:45 am]

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