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

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Docket 55-95]

Foreign-Trade Zone 26--Atlanta, Georgia; Application for

Expansion

An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones Board

(the Board) by the Georgia Foreign-Trade Zone, Inc., grantee of

Foreign-Trade Zone 26, requesting authority to expand its zone in the

Atlanta, Georgia area, within 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 regulations of

the Board (15 CFR part 400). It was formally filed on September 22,

1995.

FTZ 26 was approved on January 17, 1977 (Board Order 115, 42 FR

4186, 1/24/77) and reorganized on April 18, 1988 (Board Order 381, 53

FR 15254, 4/28/88). The general-purpose zone currently consists of a

275-acre site adjacent to Hartsfield Atlanta International Airport

(HAIA) in Clayton and Fulton Counties, Georgia.

The applicant is now requesting authority to expand the general-

purpose zone to include three separate jet fuel storage and

distribution facilities (9.7

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acres) at HAIA: the Atlecon Fuel Corporation fuel facility (3 tanks,

1.7 acres); the Epsilon Trading, Inc. fuel facility (10 tanks, 5.7

acres); and, the Airport Group International, Inc. (formerly Lockheed

Air Terminal, Inc.) fuel facility (2 tanks, 2.3 acres). The facilities

include underground fuel transmission lines, hydrant lines and

associated pumps, valves, meters and other equipment. Atlecon is a

consortium of airlines that operate international flights at the

airport. Epsilon Trading, Inc. is a subsidiary of Delta Air Lines,

Inc., and the Airport Group International, Inc. is a subsidiary of

Lockheed Martin Corporation. All carriers are permitted to utilize

these systems pursuant to a uniformly applied fee structure.

Zone procedures will provide Customs duty-free treatment for jet

fuel used in international flights. Some of the jet fuel will come from

domestic oil refineries operating under FTZ procedures.

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 December 4, 1995. Rebuttal comments in response to

material submitted during the foregoing period may be submitted during

the subsequent 15-day period (to December 18, 1995).

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, District Office, Plaza Square North, Suite

310, 4360 Chamblee Dunwoody Road, Atlanta, Georgia 30341

Office of the Executive Secretary, Foreign-Trade Zones Board, Room

3716, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th and Pennsylvania Avenue, NW.,

Washington, DC 20230.

Dated: September 27, 1995.

John J. Da Ponte, Jr.,

Executive Secretary.

[FR Doc. 95-24598 Filed 10-2-95; 8:45 am]

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