Chattanooga FTZ Applies for Expansion, Streamlined Subzone Procedures

The Chattanooga Chamber Foundation submitted an application to the Foreign-Trade Zones Board to reorganize FTZ 134 under the Alternative Site Framework, and expand the zone to cover 11 counties in southeastern Tennessee, according to an FTZ Board Federal Register notice. Under the reorganization, the zone's service area would cover Hamilton, Marion, Grundy, Warren, Sequatchie, Bledsoe, Rhea, Meigs, Bradley, Polk and McMinn Counties. The proposed reorganization under the "Alternative Site Framework would streamline processes for the designation of new FTZ subzones and usage driven sites within that service area by allowing companies to request zone status through the relatively simple "minor boundary modification" process. Comments on the application are due by June 2.