Foreign-Trade Zone 21Charleston, SC, Area; Application for Expansion

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Docket 54-99]

Foreign-Trade Zone 21--Charleston, SC, 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, grantee

of Foreign-Trade Zone 21, 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

October 28, 1999.

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);

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

September 5, 1997 (Board Order 918, 62 FR 48591, 9/16/97). The zone

project includes 13 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

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Regional Industrial Park, Early Branch; Site 5 (2,040 acres)--SCSPA's

terminal complex, Charleston, including 8 acres temporarily transferred

to a portion of the former Charleston Naval Base and Shipyard, N.

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 (82 acres)--within

Wando Park, Mount Pleasant; Site 9 (548 acres)--Charleston Business

Park, Charleston; Site 10 (105 acres)--Ashley Industrial Park, N.

Charleston; Site 11 (459 acres)--Charleston International Commerce

Park, Charleston; Site 12--(1,120 acres)--Palmetto Commerce Park, N.

Charleston; and, Site 13--(76 acres)--N. Charleston Convention Center

complex, N. Charleston.

The applicant is now requesting authority, on behalf of the

Charleston Naval Complex Redevelopment Authority, to expand the

general-purpose zone to include an additional site (Proposed Site 14;

1,514 acres) located at the former Charleston Naval Base and Shipyard,

Cosgrove Avenue, North Charleston. The property is owned by the U.S.

Department of the Navy, which is in the process of conveying the

property to the Charleston Naval Complex Redevelopment Authority, a

state agency, as part of a base conversion project. 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 January 14, 2000. Rebuttal comments in response to

material submitted during the foregoing period may be submitted during

the subsequent 15-day period January 31, 2000.

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, 5300

International Blvd., Suite 201-C, N. Charleston, S.C. 29418

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

4008, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th & Pennsylvania Avenue, NW,

Washington, DC 20230

Dated: November 8, 1999.

Dennis Puccinelli,

Acting Executive Secretary.

[FR Doc. 99-29745 Filed 11-12-99; 8:45 am]

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