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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Foreign-Trade Zones Board
[Docket 37-94]

 

Foreign-Trade Zone 124--Gramercy, LA; Application for Subzone 
Status, LOOP Inc.; Lafourche and St. James Parishes, LA

    An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones Board 
(the Board) by the South Louisiana Port Commission, grantee of FTZ 124, 
requesting special-purpose subzone status for the crude oil terminal 
system operated by LOOP Inc., located in Lafourche and St. James 
Parishes, Louisiana. 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 November 17, 1994.
    The LOOP terminal/storage system involves offshore crude oil 
offloading facilities, on-shore storage facilities, and a network of 
undersea and on-shore pipelines connecting the facilities. The 
facilities are used to offload, store, blend and transport crude oil to 
U.S. refineries. Some 30 percent of U.S. refinery capacity can be 
supplied by the system directly or indirectly through connecting 
pipeline systems and the terminal accounts for some 12 percent of U.S. 
crude oil imports.
    The facilities for which subzone status is being requested covers 
two sites (981 acres) and 92 miles of pipeline. The marine terminal, 
which is 18 miles offshore, and the undersea pipeline beyond the 12-
mile U.S. territorial limit is not included in the request because the 
U.S. Customs Service has determined that they are outside of Customs 
territory.
    The proposed subzone facilities include:

--Site 1--Four Parcels owned by LOOP Inc., and 37 miles of pipeline.
--Parcel A (10 acres)--Fourchon Booster Station, Highway 1, Fourchon, 
LA.
--Parcel B (287 acres)--Clovelly Dome Storage Terminal, Clovelly, LA.
--Parcel C (533 acres)--Brine Storage Reservoir, Clovelly, LA.
--Parcel D (27 acres)--Operations Center, 224 E. 101 Place, Cut Off, 
LA.
--Site 2 (124 acres and 55 miles of pipeline)--St. James Terminal, 6695 
LOCAP Road, St. James, LA, owned by LOCAP Inc., and operated by LOOP 
Inc. pursuant to a management agreement.

Operations and control of zone merchandise at all sites will be handled 
by LOOP Inc.
    Zone procedures would allow LOOP customers to defer Customs duty 
payment on foreign crude oil while it is in the LOOP system. On 
shipments of foreign crude to domestic refineries with subzone status, 
LOOP customers would be able to maintain the appropriate zone status of 
the crude so that these refineries can use zone procedures as 
authorized by the FTZ Board. This procedure will give these refineries 
the same opportunity to use zone procedures for foreign crude delivered 
from the LOOP system as those refineries with subzone status that take 
direct delivery of foreign crude from vessels.
    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 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 
January 30, 1995. Rebuttal comments in response to material submitted 
during the foregoing period may be submitted during the subsequent 15-
day period (to February 13, 1995).
    A copy of the application and accompanying exhibits will be 
available for public inspection at each of the following locations:

Office of the Port Director, U.S. Customs Service, P.O. Box 490, 
Gramercy, LA 70052
Office of the Executive Secretary, Foreign-Trade Zones Board, U.S. 
Department of Commerce, Room 3716, 14th & Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., 
Washington, DC 20230

    Dated: November 18, 1994.
John J. Da Ponte, Jr.,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 94-29373 Filed 11-28-94; 8:45 am]
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