Foreign-Trade Zone 182Fort Wayne, Indiana Area Application for Expansion

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

FOREIGN-TRADE ZONES BOARD

[Docket 6-97]

Foreign-Trade Zone 182--Fort Wayne, Indiana Area Application for

Expansion

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

(the Board) by the City of Fort Wayne, Indiana, grantee of Foreign-

Trade Zone 182, requesting authority to expand its zone in the Fort

Wayne, Indiana area. The Fort Wayne International Airport is a Customs

user fee airport facility designated by the U.S. Customs Service. 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 February 5, 1997.

FTZ 182 was approved on December 23, 1991 (Board Order 549, 57 F.R.

1450, 1/14/92). The general-purpose zone currently consists of three

sites: Site 1 (16,000 sq. ft.)--public warehouse at 315 East Wallace

Street, Fort Wayne; Site 2 (17,500 sq. ft.)--public warehouse at 2122

Bremer Road, Fort Wayne; and, Site 3 (50 acres)--Air Trade Center at

the Fort Wayne International Airport, Fort Wayne.

The applicant is now requesting authority to expand Site 3 to

include the entire Air Trade Center and to add an additional site to

its zone project. Site 3 at the Air Trade Center, adjacent to the Fort

Wayne International Airport would be expanded to cover 443 acres; and,

proposed Site 4 would cover 41 acres on 3 contiguous parcels at 1515

Riverfork Drive West, approximately 20 miles from the Fort Wayne

International Airport, Huntington. Stride Rite Children's Group, Inc.

(a subsidiary of Stride Rite Corporation), will be leasing one of the

parcels for its warehousing needs. 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 April 21, 1997. Rebuttal comments in response to

material submitted during the foregoing period may be submitted during

the subsequent 15-day period (to May 6, 1997).

A copy of the application and accompanying exhibits will be

available for public inspection at each of the following locations:

Huntington Chamber of Commerce, 305 Warren Street, Huntington, IN 46750

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

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

Washington, DC 20230

Dated: February 10, 1997.

John J. Da Ponte, Jr.,

Executive Secretary.

[FR Doc. 97-4220 Filed 2-19-97; 8:45 am]

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