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

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

[Docket 13-97]

Foreign-Trade Zone 21--Charleston, South Carolina Area,

Application for Expansion

An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones (FTZ)

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

grantee of FTZ 21, requesting authority to expand its zone in the

Charleston, South Carolina area, within the Charleston, South Carolina

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 March 7, 1997.

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), June 20, 1996 (Board Order 832, 61 FR 33491, 6/27/96)

and October 23, 1996 (Board Order 850, 61 FR 57383, 11/6/96). The zone

project includes 9 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/former Myrtle Beach U.S. Air Force Base, Myrtle Beach; Site 8

(23 acres)--within Wando Park, Mount Pleasant (expires 12/31/97); and,

Site 9 (548 acres)--Charleston Business Park, Charleston. An

application is currently pending with the Board to expand and remove

the time limit for Site 8 within Wando Park in Mount Pleasant (Docket

No. 62-96).

The applicant is now requesting authority to expand the general-

purpose zone to include four new sites in the North Charleston area:

Site 10 (105 acres)--within the 133-acre Ashley Industrial Park, 3045

Ashley Phosphate Road, North Charleston; Site 11 (459 acres)--within

the 500-acre Charleston International Commerce Park, 5500 International

Blvd., Charleston; Site 12 (1,120 acres, 2 tracts) within the Palmetto

Commerce Park, Ladson Road, North Charleston; and, Site 13 (76 acres)--

North Charleston Convention Center complex, 500 Coliseum Drive, North

Charleston. 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 May 19, 1997. Rebuttal comments in response to

material submitted during the foregoing period may be submitted during

the subsequent 15-day period (to June 2, 1997).

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 and Pennsylvania Avenue, NW.,

Washington, DC 20230

Dated: March 10, 1997.

John J. Da Ponte, Jr.,

Executive Secretary.

[FR Doc. 97-6680 Filed 3-17-97; 8:45 am]

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