[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 96 (Wednesday, May 19, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Pages 27983-27984]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-11983]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Foreign-Trade Zones Board
[Docket 33-2010]
Foreign-Trade Zone 22--Chicago, IL; Application for
Reorganization/Expansion Under Alternative Site Framework
An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones (FTZ)
Board (the Board) by the Illinois International Port District, grantee
of FTZ 22, requesting authority to reorganize and expand the zone under
the alternative site framework (ASF) adopted by the Board (74 FR 1170,
1/12/09; correction 74 FR 3987, 1/22/09). The ASF is an option for
grantees for the establishment or reorganization of general-purpose
zones and can permit significantly greater flexibility in the
designation of new ``usage-driven'' FTZ sites for operators/users
located within a grantee's ``service area'' in the context of the
Board's standard 2,000-acre activation limit for a general-purpose zone
project. The application was submitted pursuant to 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 May 7, 2010.
FTZ 22 was approved by the Board on October 29, 1975 (Board Order
108, 40 FR 51242; November 4, 1975) and expanded on April 9, 1987
(Board Order 353, 52 FR 12217; April 15, 1987); on December 11, 1992
(Board Order 614, 57 FR 61044; December 23, 1992); on November 21, 2000
(Board Order 1127, 65 FR 76218; December 6, 2000); on December 19, 2003
(Board Order 1313, 69 FR 49; January 2, 2004); on May 9, 2005 (Board
Order 1390, 70 FR 29277; May 20, 2005); and, on August 21, 2006 (Board
Order 1474, 71 FR 51184; August 29, 2006). The general-purpose zone
includes the following sites: Site 1 (51 acres)--Lake Calumet Harbor
Terminal Facility, 12200/12255 South Stony Island Avenue, Chicago (Cook
County); Site 2 (578 acres)--Illinois Diversatech Campus Corporation,
One Diversatech Drive, Manteno (Kankakee County); Site 3 (8 acres)--
Gotoh Distribution Services, Inc., 703 Foster Avenue, Bensenville (Du
Page County); Site 4 (8 acres)--Meiko America, Inc., Gerry Drive and
Hanson Court, Wood Dale (Du Page County); Site 5 (1,468 acres)--
CenterPoint Intermodal Center, 20901 West Walter Strawn Drive, Elwood
(Will County); Site 6 (317 acres)--Rock Run Business Park, Houlbolt
Road and Interstate 80, Joliet (Will County); Site 7 (21 acres) O'Hare
Express North Business Park, 893 Upper Express Drive, Chicago (Cook
County); Site 8 (102 acres) ProLogis Park 80, Rt. 47 & ProLogis
Parkway, Morris (Grundy County); Site 9 (12 acres) Centex Industrial
Park, 1717 Busse Road, Elk Grove Village (Cook County); Site 10 (43
acres) Bolingbrook Distribution Center, 1701 Remington Boulevard,
Bolingbrook (Will County); Site 11 (137 acres) Heartland Corporate
Center, 21228 SW Frontage Road, Shorewood (Will County); Site 12 (17
acres) LG Electronics, 1251 115th Street, Bolingbrook (Will County);
Site 13 (4.6 acres) Henry Bath Iroquois Landing, 9301 South Kreiter
Avenue, Chicago (Cook County); Site 14 (9 acres) Exel, Inc., 3702-3710
River Road, Franklin Park (Cook County); Site 15 (7.5 acres) Henry
Bath, 1550 East 98th Place, Chicago (Cook County); Site 16 (32 acres)
BMW, 456 Internationale Parkway South, Minooka (Grundy County); Site 17
(10 acres) Noramco-Chicago, Inc., 12228 New Avenue, Lemont (Cook
County); and, Site 18 (0.5 acres) Nagata Technology, Inc., 400 Lively
Boulevard, Elk Grove Village (Cook County). Sites 8-11 are subject to a
sunset provision that would terminate authority on September 30, 2011,
where no activity has occurred under FTZ procedures before that date,
and Sites 15-18 are subject to a time limit of March 31, 2011.
The grantee's proposed service area under the ASF would be Cook, Du
Page, Grundy, Kankakee, Kendall, Lake and Will Counties and portions of
McHenry and Kane Counties, as described in the application. If
approved, the grantee would be able to serve sites throughout the
service area based on companies' needs for FTZ designation. The
proposed service area is within and adjacent to the Chicago Customs and
Border Protection port of entry.
The applicant is requesting authority to reorganize its existing
zone project as follows: Sites 1, 2, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 13 and 15
would become ``magnet'' sites; and, Sites 3, 4, 9, 12, 14, 16, 17 and
18 would become ``usage-driven'' sites. The ASF allows for the possible
exemption of one magnet site from the ``sunset'' time limits that
generally apply to sites under the ASF, and the applicant proposes that
Site 1 be so exempted. The applicant is also requesting approval of an
additional ``usage-driven'' site in Du Page County: Proposed Site 19
(9.7 acres)--Eastman Kodak Company, 127 East Elk Trail Boulevard, Carol
Stream. Since the ASF only pertains to establishing or reorganizing a
general-purpose zone, the application would have no impact on FTZ 22's
authorized subzones.
In accordance with the Board's regulations, Claudia Hausler of the
FTZ Staff is designated examiner to evaluate and analyze the facts and
information presented in the application and case record and to report
findings and recommendations to the Board.
Public comment 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
July 19, 2010. Rebuttal comments in response to material submitted
during the foregoing period
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may be submitted during the subsequent 15-day period to August 2, 2010.
A copy of the application will be available for public inspection
at the Office of the Executive Secretary, Foreign-Trade Zones Board,
Room 2111, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue, NW.,
Washington, DC 20230-0002, and in the ``Reading Room'' section of the
Board's Web site, which is accessible via http://www.trade.gov/ftz. For
further information, contact Claudia Hausler at
[email protected] or (202) 482-1379.
Dated: May 11, 2010.
Andrew McGilvray,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2010-11983 Filed 5-18-10; 8:45 am]
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