[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 232 (Friday, December 3, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 67844-67845]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-31416]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board
[Docket No. 59-99]


Foreign-Trade Zone 26--Atlanta, Georgia Area Application for 
Expansion

    An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones (FTZ) 
Board (the Board), by the Georgia Foreign-Trade Zone, Inc., grantee of 
Foreign-Trade Zone 26, requesting authority to expand its zone to 
include an additional site in Canton (Cherokee County), Georgia, 
adjacent to the Atlanta 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

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regulations of the Board (15 CFR Part 400). It was formally filed on 
November 23, 1999.
    FTZ 26 was approved on January 17, 1977 (Board Order 115, 42 FR 
4186, 1/24/77); reorganized on April 18, 1988 (Board Order 381, 53 FR 
15254, 4/28/88); and, expanded on April 29, 1996 (Board Order 820, 61 
FR 21156, 5/9/96) and March 19, 1999 (Board Order 1033, 64 FR 16421, 4/
5/99). The general-purpose zone project currently consists of the 
following sites:

Site 1 (275 acres)--adjacent to the Hartsfield Atlanta International 
Airport (HAIA) in Clayton and Fulton Counties, Georgia, including jet 
fuel storage and distribution facilities at HAIA; and,
Site 2 (2,472 acres)--Peachtree City Development Authority's Peachtree 
City Industrial Park, Highway 74 South, Peachtree City.

    The applicant is now requesting authority to expand the general-
purpose zone to include an additional site in Canton (Cherokee County), 
Georgia: Proposed Site 3 (85 acres)--Canton-Cherokee County Business 
and Industrial Park, Brown Industrial Boulevard, Canton, some 45 miles 
north of downtown Atlanta. Proposed Site 3 would be the first site in 
the northern Atlanta metropolitan area. 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 February 1, 2000. Rebuttal comments in response to 
material submitted during the foregoing period may be submitted during 
the subsequent 15-day period (to February 16, 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, 285 Peachtree 
Center Avenue, NE, Suite 200, Atlanta, GA 30303-1229
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 24, 1999.
Dennis Puccinelli,
Acting Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 99-31416 Filed 12-2-99; 8:45 am]
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