Foreign-Trade Zone 146Lawrence County, Illinois, Area Application for Expansion

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Docket 29-99]

Foreign-Trade Zone 146--Lawrence County, Illinois, Area

Application for Expansion

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

Board (the Board) by the Bi-State Authority, grantee of FTZ 146,

Lawrence County (Lawrenceville), Illinois, requesting authority to

expand its zone to include a site in Effingham, Illinois, adjacent to

the St. Louis, 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 June 2, 1999.

FTZ 146 was approved on February 11, 1988 (Board Order 371, 53 FR

5436, 2/24/88). The zone project currently consists of Site 1 (43

acres)--within the 3,000-acre Mid-America Air Center/Industrial Park

complex, Route 50, Lawrence County (Lawrenceville), Illinois.

The applicant is now requesting authority to expand the general-

purpose zone to include an additional site (Proposed Site 2--62 acres,

3 parcels)--Effingham Industrial Park, Effingham, Illinois. The site

consists of a 177,994 square foot warehouse (9 acres), owned by

Agracel, Inc.; a railroad intermodal facility which includes a proposed

100,000 square foot dock and warehouse and distribution facility (22

acres), owned by Agracel, Inc. and Effingham Railroad; and, undeveloped

land (31 acres) which is available for future development, owned by

American Way Enterprise Park Partners. The site will be operated by

Total Quality Warehouse (a subsidiary of Agracel, Inc.). 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 August 16, 1999. Rebuttal comments in response to

material submitted during the foregoing period may be submitted during

the subsequent 15-day period (to August 30, 1999).

A copy of the application and accompanying exhibits will be

available for public inspection at each of the following locations:

Lawrence County Industrial Development Council, 718 11th Street, Suite

2, Upper Level, Lawrenceville, IL 62439.

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

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

Washington, DC 20230.

Dated: June 7, 1999.

Pierre Duy,

Acting Executive Secretary.

[FR Doc. 99-15178 Filed 6-14-99; 8:45 am]

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