DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Foreign-Trade Zones Board
[Docket No. 14-87]
52 FR 34266
September 10, 1987
Foreign-Trade Zone 26, Atlanta, GA; Application for Reorganization
TEXT: An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones Board
(the Board) by the Georgia Foreign-Trade Zone, Inc., (GFTZ), grantee of
Foreign-Trade Zone 26 in Atlanta, Georgia, requesting authority to
reorganize and relocate its zone project. 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 August 27, 1987.
On January 17, 1977, the Board authorized GFTZ to establish a foreign-
trade zone project in the Atlanta Port of Entry area (Board Order 115, 42
FR 4186, 1/24/77). The zone is located on 33 acres within a 1200-acre
industrial park in Shenandoah, Coweta County, Georgia, some 23 miles
southwest of Atlanta. Zone operations at the site were suspended in
September 1985.
The reorganization would involve relocating the zone to a 300-acre site
adjacent to Atlanta's Hartsfield International Airport in Clayton and Fulton
Counties. The site is bounded by I-75, I-285 and U.S. Highway 19-41, and on
the east by the airport's runways. The site, known as the Atlanta Tradeport,
is owned by the Wilma Tradeport Joint Venture, a Georgia general
partnership, and will be operated by one of its subsidiaries, Wilma Foreign-
Trade Zone, Inc. No approvals for manufacturing operations are being sought
at this time.
In accordance with the Board's regulations, an examiners committee has
been appointed to investigate the application and report to the Board. The
committee consists of: Joseph E. Lowry (Chairman), Foreign-Trade Zone Staff,
U.S. Department of Commerce, Washington, DC 20230; Howard Cooperman, Deputy
Assistant Regional Commissioner, U.S. Customs Service, Southeast Region, 99
Southeast Fifth Street, Miami, Florida 33131-2595; and Colonel C. Hilton
Dunn, Jr., District Engineer, U.S. Army Engineer District Mobile, P.O. Box
2288, Mobile, Alabama 26628-0001.
Comments concering the proposed zone reorganization are invited in
writing from interested parties and organizations. They should be addressed
to the Board's Executive Secretary at the address below and postmarked on
or before October 23, 1987.
A copy of the application is available for public inspection at each of
the following locations:
U.S. Department of Commerce, District Office,
Suite 504, 1365 Peachtree Street, NE.,
Atlanta, Georgia 30309.
Office of the Executive Secretary,
Foreign-Trade Zones Board,
Department of Commerce, Room 1529,
14th and Pennsylvania Avenue, NW.,
Washington, DC 20230.
Dated: September 3, 1987.
John J. Da Ponte, Jr.,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 87-20818 Filed 9-9-87; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 3510-DS-M