[Federal Register: May 28, 1998 (Volume 63, Number 102)]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board
[Docket 25-98]

Foreign-Trade Zone 124--LaPlace, Louisiana, Foreign-Trade Subzone
124B--North American Shipbuilding, Inc.; Application for Expansion

    An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones (FTZ)
Board (the Board) by the South Louisiana Port Commission, grantee of
FTZ 124, requesting authority to expand Subzone 124B, which currently
covers the main shipyard facility of North American Shipbuilding, Inc.
(NASI) located in LaFourche Parish, Louisiana, adjacent to the Gramercy
Customs port of entry, to include two new sites located in Terrebonne
and Lafourche Parishes. 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 May 19, 1998.
    Subzone 124B was approved on October 29, 1991 (Board Order 539, 56
F.R. 56627, 11/6/91). The subzone currently consists of one site (14
acres) located at 800 Industrial Park Road and Highway 308, Lafourche
Parish, one mile north of Larose, Louisiana.
    The applicant is now requesting authority to expand the subzone to
include two additional sites: proposed Site 2 (27 acres)--North

American Fabricators, LLC, 208 North American Court, Houma (Terrebonne
Parish); and, proposed Site 3 (26 acres)--C-Port, LLC, 106 9th Street,
Port Fourchon (Lafourche Parish).
    The NASI facility is used for the construction and repair of
commercial, military and research vessels under zone procedures within
Subzone 124B.

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This proposal does not request any new authority under FTZ procedures
in terms of products or components, but it does involve a potential
increase in the facility's level of production under FTZ procedures.
NASI will operate the proposed sites as an integral part of Subzone
124B.
    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 July 27, 1998. Rebuttal comments in response to
material submitted during the foregoing period may be submitted during
the subsequent 15-day period (to August 11, 1998).
    A copy of the application and accompanying exhibits will be
available for public inspection at each of the following locations:

Office of the Port Director, U.S. Customs Service, 110 North Airline
Avenue, Gramercy, LA 70052
Office of the Executive Secretary, Foreign-Trade Zones Board, Room
3716, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th & Pennsylvania Avenue, NW,
Washington, DC 20230

    Dated: May 20, 1998.
Dennis Puccinelli,
Acting Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 98-14153 Filed 5-27-98; 8:45 am]
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