[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 11 (Friday, January 16, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 2660-2661]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-1162]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Foreign-Trade Zones Board
[Docket 1-98]
Foreign-Trade Zone 92, Harrison County, Mississippi Area
Application for Expansion
An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones (FTZ)
Board (the Board) by the Greater Gulfport/Biloxi Foreign-Trade Zone,
Inc., grantee of FTZ 92, based in Harrison County, Mississippi,
requesting authority to expand its zone at sites in Jackson and Hancock
Counties, Mississippi, within the Pascagoula and Gulfport Customs ports
of entry. The application was submitted pursuant to the provisions of
the FTZ Act, as amended (19 U.S.C. 81a-81u), and the regulations of the
Board (15 CFR Part 400). It was formally filed on January 6, 1998.
FTZ 92 was approved on November 4, 1983 (Board Order 232, 48 FR
52107, 11/16/83) and expanded on August 17, 1992 (Board Order 595, 57
FR 39388, 8/31/97). The zone project currently consists of the
following sites in Harrison County: Site 1 (167 acres)--Port of
Gulfport complex, Highway 90 and 30th Avenue, Gilbert; Site 2 (717
acres)--industrial area within the Gulfport/Biloxi Regional Airport,
Gulfport; Site 3 (2,471 acres)--Bernard Bayou Industrial Park, 1 mile
north of Gulfport, Harrison County; and, Site 4 (484 acres)--Long Beach
Industrial Park, 5 miles west of Gulfport between Espy Avenue and Beat
Line Road, Long Beach.
The applicant, in a major revision to its zone plan, now requests
authority to expand the general-purpose zone to include nine new sites
(1,731 acres) in Jackson and Hancock Counties (Proposed Sites 5-13):
Site 5 (254 acres)--Trent C. Lott International Airport, 8301
Saracennia Road, Moss Point (Jackson County); Site 6 (148 acres)--
Greenwood Island, Bayou Casotte area of Pascagoula (Jackson County);
Site 7 (193 acres)--Port of Pascagoula (2 harbors)--West Harbor (112
acres), located on the Pascagoula River, and East Harbor (81 acres),
located in the Bayou Casotte industrial area, Pascagoula (Jackson
County); Site 8 (283 acres)--John C. Stennis Industrial Park (formerly
the Jackson County Airport), Highway 611/63, adjacent to the Bayou
Casotte Harbor's deep water port facility, Pascagoula (Jackson County);
Site 9 (13 acres)--Heinz facility, east bank of the Pascagoula River,
across from the Port of Pascagoula West Harbor, Pascagoula (Jackson
County); Site 10 (65 acres)--within the
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300-acre Sunplex Industrial Park, Mississippi Highway 57 between
Interstate 10 and US Highway 90, within one mile of the city limits of
Ocean Springs (Jackson County); Site 11 (621 acres)--within the 3,600-
acre Port Bienville Industrial Park, mouth of the Pearl River, 2.7
miles south of U.S. Highway 90, Pearlington (Hancock County); Site 12
(87 acres)--Mississippi Army Ammunition Plant (part of the 14,000-acre
John C. Stennis Space Center), 4 miles north of Interstate 10, State
Highway 607, Kiln, (Hancock County); and, Site 13 (67 acres)--Stennis
International Airport, Kiln (Hancock County). All of these sites are
owned or controlled by either the Jackson County Port Authority or the
Hancock County Port and Harbor Commission. 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 March 17, 1998. Rebuttal comments in response to
material submitted during the foregoing period may be submitted during
the subsequent 15-day period to April 1, 1998.
A copy of the application and accompanying exhibits will be
available for public inspection at each of the following locations:
Gulf Regional Planning Commission, 1232 Pass Road, Gulfport, MS 39501
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: January 7, 1998.
Dennis Puccinelli,
Acting Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 98-1162 Filed 1-15-98; 8:45 am]
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