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ACCESSION NUMBER:		0001104659-10-018787
CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE:	CORRESP
PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT:		1
FILED AS OF DATE:		20100407

FILER:

	COMPANY DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			GEORGIA GULF CORP /DE/
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0000805264
		STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:	PLASTICS, MATERIALS, SYNTH RESINS & NONVULCAN ELASTOMERS [2821]
		IRS NUMBER:				581563799
		STATE OF INCORPORATION:			DE
		FISCAL YEAR END:			1231

	FILING VALUES:
		FORM TYPE:		CORRESP

	BUSINESS ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		115 PERIMETER CENTER PLACE
		STREET 2:		STE. 460
		CITY:			ATLANTA
		STATE:			GA
		ZIP:			30346
		BUSINESS PHONE:		7703954500

	MAIL ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		115 PERIMETER CENTER PLACE
		STREET 2:		STE. 460
		CITY:			ATLANTA
		STATE:			GA
		ZIP:			30346
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<p align="center" style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-align:center;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">[Jones Day
Letterhead]</font></p>

<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>

<p align="center" style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-align:center;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">April&nbsp;7,
2010</font></p>

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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-decoration:underline;text-transform:uppercase;"><b><u><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold;text-transform:none;">VIA E</font></u></b><b><font size="2" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold;text-transform:none;">D</font></b><b><font size="2" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold;text-transform:none;">GAR</font></b></p>

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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Pamela Long,&nbsp;Esq.</font><font size="2" style="font-size:10.0pt;"><br>
</font><font size="2" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Assistant Director</font><font size="2" style="font-size:10.0pt;"><br>
</font><font size="2" style="font-size:10.0pt;">U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission</font><font size="2" style="font-size:10.0pt;"><br>
</font><font size="2" style="font-size:10.0pt;">100 F Street, N.E.</font><font size="2" style="font-size:10.0pt;"><br>
</font><font size="2" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Washington, DC&#160; 20549</font></p>

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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt 1.0in;text-indent:-.5in;"><b><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold;">Re:</font></b><b><font size="1" style="font-size:8.5pt;font-weight:bold;">&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; </font></b><b><font size="2" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold;">Georgia Gulf Corporation</font></b><b><font size="2" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold;"><br>
Post-Effective </font></b><b><font size="2" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold;">Amendment No.&nbsp;1 to
Registration Statement on Form&nbsp;S-1 on <br>
Form&nbsp;S-3</font></b><b><font size="2" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold;"><br>
</font></b><b><font size="2" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold;">Filed March&nbsp;12, 2010</font></b><b><font size="2" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold;"><br>
</font></b><b><font size="2" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold;">File No.&nbsp;333-161770</font></b></p>

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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Dear Ms.&nbsp;Long:</font></p>

<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>

<p align="left" style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-align:left;text-justify:inter-ideograph;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">We are responding to your
letter dated April&nbsp;1, 2010 regarding comments by the Staff of the U.S.
Securities and Exchange Commission (the &#147;Staff&#148;) with respect to the above-referenced
Registration Statement of Georgia Gulf Corporation (the &#147;Company&#148;). &#160;This letter repeats each of the comments in
the Staff&#146;s letter in bolded typeface followed by the responses of the Company.</font></p>

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<p style="font-weight:bold;margin:0in 0in .0001pt;page-break-after:auto;text-decoration:underline;"><b><u><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">General</font></u></b></p>

<p style="font-weight:bold;margin:0in 0in .0001pt;page-break-after:auto;"><b><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></b></p>

<p align="left" style="font-weight:bold;margin:0in 0in .0001pt .5in;page-break-after:auto;text-align:left;text-indent:-.5in;text-justify:inter-ideograph;"><b><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">1.</font></b><font size="1" style="font-size:8.5pt;">&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; </font><font size="2" style="font-size:10.0pt;">We note your
disclosure in note 10 of your consolidated financial statements contained in
your Form&nbsp;10-K for the year ended December&nbsp;31, 2009.&#160; In the first paragraph on page&nbsp;79 of the
Form&nbsp;10-K, you disclose that you defaulted under the terms of certain
indentures by failing to make interest payments.&#160; Please explain to us how you determined your
eligibility to register the resale of your common stock on Form&nbsp;S-3 in
light of General Instruction I.A.5. of Form&nbsp;S-3.</font></p>

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<p align="left" style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-align:left;text-indent:.5in;text-justify:inter-ideograph;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>

<p align="left" style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt .5in;text-align:left;text-indent:0in;text-justify:inter-ideograph;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">As indicated in the referenced note, the failure to
make interest payments constituted defaults under the indentures related to our
7.125 percent, 9.5 percent and 10.75 percent notes.&#160; On July&nbsp;29, 2009, we consummated our
private exchange of equity for $91.0 million of the $100 million in principal
amount of 7.125 percent notes, $486.8 million of the $500 million in principal
amount of 9.5 percent notes and $158.1 million of the $200 million in principal
amount of 10.75 percent notes.&#160;
Thereafter, we had outstanding $9.0 million of the 7.125 percent notes,
$13.2 million of the 9.5 percent notes and $41.4 million of the 10.75 percent </font></p>

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<p align="left" style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt .5in;text-align:left;text-indent:0in;text-justify:inter-ideograph;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">notes.&#160;
Subsequent to the consummation of the private exchanges, we paid all
outstanding interest on the notes that remained outstanding during the third
quarter ended September&nbsp;30, 2009 and have since remained in compliance
with our obligations thereunder.</font></p>

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<p align="left" style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt .5in;text-align:left;text-indent:0in;text-justify:inter-ideograph;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">General Instruction I.A.5. of Form&nbsp;S-3 requires
that neither the registrant nor any of its subsidiaries have, &#147;since the end of
the last fiscal year for which certified financial statements of the registrant
and its consolidated subsidiaries were included in a report filed pursuant to Section&nbsp;13(a)&nbsp;or
15(d)&nbsp;of the Exchange Act. . . defaulted on any installment or
installments on indebtedness for borrowed money.&#148;</font></p>

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<p align="left" style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt .5in;text-align:left;text-indent:0in;text-justify:inter-ideograph;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">We included certified financial statements for the
year ended December&nbsp;31, 2009 in our Form&nbsp;10-K filed March&nbsp;11,
2010.&#160; As a result of such filing, we now
meet the requirement of General Instruction I.A.5. of Form&nbsp;S-3.</font></p>

<p align="left" style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt .5in;text-align:left;text-indent:0in;text-justify:inter-ideograph;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>

<p align="left" style="font-weight:bold;margin:0in 0in .0001pt .5in;page-break-after:auto;text-align:left;text-indent:-.5in;text-justify:inter-ideograph;"><b><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">2.</font></b><font size="1" style="font-size:8.5pt;">&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; </font><font size="2" style="font-size:10.0pt;">We note that you have not yet filed the Part&nbsp;III information
incorporated by reference into your Form&nbsp;10-K for the year ended December&nbsp;31,
2009.&#160; Please be advised that we will not
take your filing effective until after you file the Part&nbsp;III information.</font></p>

<p align="left" style="font-weight:bold;margin:0in 0in .0001pt .5in;page-break-after:auto;text-align:left;text-indent:-.5in;text-justify:inter-ideograph;"><b><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></b></p>

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<p align="left" style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-align:left;text-indent:.5in;text-justify:inter-ideograph;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>

<p align="left" style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt .5in;text-align:left;text-indent:0in;text-justify:inter-ideograph;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">We presently anticipate that the definitive proxy
statement, which includes the information required by, and which is
incorporated in, Part&nbsp;III of the Form&nbsp;10-K, will be filed next
week.&#160; We do not intend to request
acceleration of effectiveness of the filing prior to that time.</font></p>

<p align="left" style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt .5in;text-align:left;text-indent:0in;text-justify:inter-ideograph;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">&nbsp;</font></p>

<p align="left" style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt .5in;text-align:left;text-indent:0in;text-justify:inter-ideograph;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Please contact the undersigned with any questions
regarding the responses to your comments.</font></p>

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<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-indent:24.0pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Craig
Slivka,&nbsp;Esq.</font></p>

<p style="margin:0in 0in .0001pt;text-indent:24.0pt;"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Joel
I. Beerman,&nbsp;Esq.</font></p>

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