[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 58 (Monday, March 25, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Page 12060]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-7048]



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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
[Docket 23-96]


Foreign-Trade Zone 207, Richmond, Virginia, Application for 
Subzone Status; Abbott Manufacturing, Inc., Plant (Infant Formula, 
Adult Nutritional Products), Altavista, VA

    An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones Board 
(the Board) by the Capital Region Airport Commission, grantee of FTZ 
207, requesting special-purpose subzone status for export activity at 
the infant formula and adult nutritional products manufacturing plant 
of Abbott Manufacturing, Inc. (AMI) (a subsidiary of Abbott 
Laboratories, Inc.), located in Altavista, Virginia. 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 March 12, 1996.
    The AMI plant (1,000,000 sq. ft. on 215 acres) is located at U.S. 
Highway 29 North and State Route 711 in the City of Altavista (Campbell 
County), Virginia, approximately 20 miles south of Lynchburg, Virginia. 
The facility (650 employees) is used to produce milk and sugar-based 
infant formula and adult nutritional products for export and the 
domestic market; however, zone procedures would be used only for 
production for export. The production process involves blending 
foreign, ex-quota milk powder and foreign, ex-quota sugar with 
domestically-sourced oils, soy isolates, vitamins and minerals, and EZO 
ends. Other foreign-sourced items that may be used in the export-
blending activity include: cocoa powder, pharmaceutical grade fat 
emulsions, vitamins and minerals, and caseinates (up to 14% of finished 
product value). All foreign-origin milk and sugar would be re-exported 
as ingredients in finished blended products.
    Zone procedures would exempt AMI from quota requirements and 
Customs duty payments on the foreign milk and sugar products used in 
the export activity, and they would also exempt the company from 
Customs duty payments on the other foreign ingredients involved. The 
application indicates that subzone status would help improve the 
plant's international competitiveness.
    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 three copies) shall be addressed to 
the Board's Executive Secretary at the address below. The closing 
period for their receipt is May 24, 1996. Rebuttal comments in response 
to material submitted during the foregoing period may be submitted 
during the subsequent 15-day period (to June 10, 1996).
    A copy of the application and the accompanying exhibits will be 
available for public inspection at each of the following locations:

U.S. Department of Commerce, District Office, 700 Centre, Suite 550, 
704 East Franklin Street, Richmond, VA 23219.
Office of the Executive Secretary, Foreign-Trade Zones Board, U.S. 
Department of Commerce, Room 3716, 14th Street & Pennsylvania Avenue 
NW., Washington, DC 20230-0002.

    Dated: March 14, 1996.
John J. Da Ponte, Jr.,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 96-7048 Filed 3-22-96; 8:45 am]
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