Foreign-Trade Zone 15Kansas City, Missouri, Application for Expansion

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Docket 10-98]

Foreign-Trade Zone 15--Kansas City, Missouri, Application for

Expansion

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

(the Board) by the Greater Kansas City Foreign Trade Zone, Inc.,

grantee of Foreign-Trade Zone 15, requesting authority to expand its

zone in Kansas City, Missouri, within the Kansas City,

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Missouri, 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 February 27, 1998.

FTZ 15 was approved on March 23, 1973 (Board Order 93, 38 FR 8622,

4/4/73) and expanded on October 25, 1974 (Board Order 102, 39 FR 39487,

11/7/74); February 28, 1996 (Board Order 804, 61 FR 9676, 3/11/96);

and, May 31, 1996 (Board Order 824, 61 FR 29529, 6/11/96). The zone

project includes 5 general-purpose sites in the Kansas City, Missouri,

port of entry area: Site 1 (250,000 sq. ft.)--Midland International

Corp. warehouse, 1690 North Topping, Kansas City; Site 2 (2,815,000 sq.

ft.)--Hunt Midwest surface/underground warehouse complex, 8300 N.E.

Underground Drive, Kansas City; Site 3 (10,000 acres)--Kansas City

International Airport complex, Kansas City; Site 4 (416 acres)--

surface/underground business park (Carefree Industrial Park), 1600 N.

M-291 Highway, Sugar Creek; and, Site 5 (5.75 million sq. ft.)--CARMAR

Underground Business Park and Surface Industrial Park (1000 acres)

located at No. 1 Civil War Road, Carthage. Applications are currently

pending with the Board for additional sites in Hermann and Chillicothe,

Missouri (Docs. 44-97 and 82-97, respectively).

The applicant is now requesting authority to further expand the

general-purpose zone to include an additional site: Proposed Site 8

(1,750 acres)--Richards-Gebaur Memorial Airport/Industrial Park

complex, 1540 Maxwell, Kansas City. The facility (the former Richards-

Gebaur Air Force Base) is now owned by the Kansas City Aviation

Department, and has been designated as a state enterprise zone. 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 11, 1998. Rebuttal comments in response to

material submitted during the foregoing period may be submitted during

the subsequent 15-day period (to May 26, 1998).

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, 601 East 12th

Street, Room 635, Kansas City, MO 64106.

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

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

Washington, DC 20230.

Dated: March 4, 1998.

Dennis Puccinelli,

Acting Executive Secretary.

[FR Doc. 98-6147 Filed 3-9-98; 8:45 am]

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