[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 15 (Tuesday, January 24, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Pages 4589-4590]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-1758]



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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Foreign-Trade Zones Board
[DOCKET 1-95]


Foreign-Trade Zone 124, Gramercy, Louisiana; Application for 
Subzone Status Marathon Oil Company (Oil Refinery) Garyville, 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 oil refinery of 
Marathon Oil Company (Marathon) (subsidiary of USX Corporation), 
located in Garyville, 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 January 9, 1995.
    The refinery (1,370 acres) is located at Marathon Ave., between 
U.S. 61 and the Mississippi River in Garyville, St. John the Baptist 
Parish, Louisiana, some 35 miles northwest of New Orleans. A Marathon 
pipeline (included in the subzone request) connects the refinery to the 
St. James, Louisiana, crude oil storage terminal of the LOOP/LOCAP 
Pipeline System.
    The refinery (255,000 barrels per day; 480 employees) is used to 
produce fuels and petrochemical feedstocks. Fuels produced include 
gasoline, diesel fuel, jet fuel, and fuel oil. Petrochemical feedstocks 
include isobutane, propane and propylene. Refinery by-products include 
sulfur, petroleum coke and asphalt. All of the crude oil (some 75 
percent of inputs) and some feedstocks and motor fuel blendstocks used 
by the refinery are sourced from abroad. [[Page 4590]] 
    Zone procedures would exempt the refinery from Customs duty 
payments on the foreign products used in its exports. On domestic 
sales, the company would be able to choose the finished product duty 
rate (nonprivileged foreign status--NPF) on certain petrochemical 
feedstocks and refinery by-products (duty-free). The duty on crude oil 
ranges from 5.25 cents to 10.5 cents/barrel. Marathon indicates that 
some of the NPF finished products might be used as fuel in the refining 
process. The application indicates that the savings from zone 
procedures would help improve the refinery's international 
competitiveness.
    In accordance with the Board's regulations (as revised, 56 FR 
50790-50808, 10-8-91), 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 
March 27, 1995. Rebuttal comments in response to material submitted 
during the foregoing period may be submitted during the subsequent 15-
day period (to April 10, 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, Hale Boggs Federal 
Building, 501 Magazine Street, Room 1043, New Orleans, LA 70130,
Office of the Executive Secretary, Foreign-Trade Zones Board, Room 3716 
U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th & Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., 
Washington, DC 20230.

    Dated: January 17, 1995
John J. Da Ponte, Jr.,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 95-1758 Filed 1-23-95; 8:45 am]
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