[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 237 (Friday, December 10, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Page 76953]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-31108]


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 DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Order No. 1725]


Reorganization of Foreign-Trade Zone 26 Under Alternative Site 
Framework, Atlanta, GA

    Pursuant to its authority under the Foreign-Trade Zones Act of June 
18, 1934, as amended (19 U.S.C. 81a-81u), the Foreign-Trade Zones Board 
(the Board) adopts the following Order:
    Whereas, the Board adopted the alternative site framework (ASF) in 
December 2008 (74 FR 1170, 01/12/09; correction 74 FR 3987, 01/22/09) 
as an option for the establishment or reorganization of general-purpose 
zones;
    Whereas, the Georgia Foreign-Trade Zone, Inc., grantee of Foreign-
Trade Zone 26, submitted an application to the Board (FTZ Docket 22-
2010, filed 3/25/2010, amended 9/24/2010) for authority to reorganize 
under the ASF with a service area that includes the Georgia counties of 
Haralson, Paulding, Polk, Floyd, Bartow, Chattooga, Gordon, Pickens, 
Gilmer, Walker, Whitfield, Murray, Forsyth, Dawson, Hall, Banks, 
Lumpkin, Fulton, DeKalb, Gwinnett, Cobb, Douglas, Clayton, Henry, 
Fayette, Rockdale, Cherokee, Carroll, Coweta, Heard, Troup, Meriwether, 
Pike, Spalding, Butts, Lamar, Upson, Jasper, Newton, Morgan, Greene, 
Walton, Oconee, Clarke, Barrow, Jackson, Bibb, Crawford, Jones, Monroe, 
Putnam, Richmond, Harris, Talbot and Muscogee in their entirety and 
portions of White, Franklin, Peach, Houston, and Twiggs Counties, in 
and adjacent to the Atlanta Customs and Border Protection port of entry 
with the exception of Walker, Whitfield, and Murray Counties which are 
adjacent to the Chattanooga Customs and Border Protection port of 
entry, and Richmond County which is adjacent to the Columbia Customs 
and Border Protection port of entry, FTZ 26's existing Sites 1 through 
18 would be categorized as magnet sites, and existing Site 19 would be 
categorized as a usage-driven site;
    Whereas, notice inviting public comment was given in the Federal 
Register (75 FR 17126-17127, 4/5/2010) and the application has been 
processed pursuant to the FTZ Act and the Board's regulations; and,
    Whereas, the Board adopts the findings and recommendation of the 
examiner's report, and finds that the requirements of the FTZ Act and 
Board's regulations are satisfied, and that the proposal is in the 
public interest;
    Now, Therefore, the Board hereby orders:
    The application to reorganize FTZ 26 under the alternative site 
framework is approved, subject to the FTZ Act and the Board's 
regulations, including Section 400.28, to the Board's standard 2,000-
acre activation limit for the overall general-purpose zone project, to 
a five-year ASF sunset provision for magnet sites that would terminate 
authority for Sites 1 through 18 if not activated by November 30, 2015, 
and to a three-year ASF sunset provision for usage-driven sites that 
would terminate authority for Site 19 if no foreign-status merchandise 
is admitted for a bona fide customs purpose by November 30, 2013.

    Signed at Washington, DC, this 26th day of November 2010.
Ronald K. Lorentzen,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Import Administration Alternate 
Chairman, Foreign-Trade Zones Board.
Andrew McGilvray,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2010-31108 Filed 12-9-10; 8:45 am]
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