[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 89 (Monday, May 10, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Pages 25839-25840]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-10992]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

Docket 31-2010


Foreign-Trade Zone 26 Atlanta, Georgia, Application for Subzone, 
Yates Bleachery Company (Textile Fabric Finishing), Flintstone, Georgia

    An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones Board 
(the Board) by Georgia Foreign-Trade Zone, Inc., grantee of FTZ 26, 
requesting special-purpose subzone status for the textile fabric 
finishing facility of Yates Bleachery Company (YBC) located in 
Flintstone, Georgia. 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 3, 2010.
    The proposed subzone would be comprised of YBC's plant (160 
employees/254 acres) located at 503 Flintstone Road in Flintstone, 
Georgia. The facility is used to finish up to 200 million square yards 
of foreign-origin, greige fabric annually on a contract basis for the 
Louisville Bedding Company, which has concurrently submitted an 
application to the Board for subzone status for its Louisville, 
Kentucky facility. The application indicates that YBC would clean, 
bleach, wash, stretch, dry, and sanforize wide-roll (80 inches and 
wider), high thread count (180 threads per inch and higher) fabrics 
under FTZ procedures based on a tolling arrangement with Louisville 
Bedding Company. The finished fabric would be transferred via zone-to-
zone transfer to the proposed subzone to be located at the Louisville 
Bedding Company facility. YBC would not process any other customer-
owned fabric under FTZ procedures.
    Subzone status would allow for deferral of duties on the customer-
owned, foreign fabric while inventoried in the proposed subzone. 
Subzone status would further allow YBC to realize certain CBP-related 
logistical benefits. Customs duties could possibly be deferred or 
reduced on foreign status production equipment. The application 
indicates that the savings from FTZ procedures would help improve the 
facility's international competitiveness.
    In accordance with the Board's regulations, Pierre Duy of the FTZ 
Staff is designated examiner to evaluate and analyze the facts and 
information presented in the application and case record and to report 
findings and recommendations to the Board.
    Public comment is invited from interested parties. Submissions 
(original and 3 copies) shall be addressed to the Board's Executive 
Secretary at the following address: Office of the Executive Secretary, 
Room 2111, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue, NW, 
Washington, DC 20230-0002. The closing period for receipt of comments 
is July 9, 2010. Rebuttal comments in response to material submitted 
during the foregoing period may be submitted during the subsequent 15-
day period to July 26, 2010.
    A copy of the application will be available for public inspection 
at the

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Office of the Foreign-Trade Zones Board's Executive Secretary at the 
address listed above and in the ``Reading Room'' section of the Board's 
website, which is accessible via www.trade.gov/ftz. For further 
information, contact Pierre Duy at <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#84d4ede1f6f6e1aac0f1fdc4f0f6e5e0e1aae3ebf2"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="7c2c15190e0e19523809053c080e1d1819521b130a">[email protected]</span></a> or (202) 482-
1378.

    Dated: May 3, 2010.
Andrew McGilvray,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2010-10992 Filed 5-7-10; 8:45 am]
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