[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 58 (Monday, March 27, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Pages 15747-15748]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-7497]



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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Foreign-Trade Zones Board
[Docket A(32b1)-2-95; Docket A(32b1)-3-95]


Foreign-Trade Zone 124--Grammercy, Louisiana, Subzone 124C, Star 
Enterprise, (Crude Oil Refinery Complex); Foreign-Trade Zone 116--Port 
Arthur, Texas, Subzone 116A, Star Enterprise (Crude Oil Refinery 
Complex) Requests for Modification of Restrictions

    Requests have been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones Board (the 
Board) by the South Louisiana Port Commission, grantee of FTZ 124, and 
the Foreign-Trade Zone of Southeast Texas, grantee of FTZ 116, pursuant 
to Sec. 400.32(b)(1) of the Board's regulations, for modification of 
the restrictions in FTZ Board Orders 667 and 668 authorizing Subzones 
124C and 116A at the crude oil refinery complexes of Star Enterprise in 
Convent, Louisiana, and in Jefferson/Hardin Counties, Texas. The 
requests were formally filed on March 22, 1995.
    The FTZ Board approved subzone status for the Star Enterprise 
refineries [[Page 15748]] in 1993 (Subzone 124C, Board Order 667, 59 FR 
60, 1/3/94; and Subzone 116A, Board Order 668, 59 FR 61, 1/3/94). The 
approvals were subject to certain standard restrictions, including one 
that required the election of privileged foreign status on incoming 
foreign merchandise.
    The companies are now requesting that this restriction be modified 
so that they would have the option available under the FTZ Act to 
choose non-privileged foreign (NPF) status on foreign refinery inputs 
used to produce certain petrochemical feedstocks and by-products 
including the following: benzene, toluene, xylenes, hydrocarbon 
mixtures, distillates/residual fuel oils, kerosene, naphthas, ethane, 
propane, butane, ethylene, propylene, butylene, butadiene, petroleum 
coke, asphalt, sulfur, and sulfuric acid.
    The requests cite the FTZ Board's recent decision in the Amoco, 
Texas City, Texas case (Board Order 731, 60 FR 13118, 3/10/95) which 
authorized subzone status with the NPF option noted above. In the Amoco 
case, the Board concluded that the restriction that precluded this NPF 
option was not needed under current oil refinery industry 
circumstances.
    Public comment on the proposal 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 [30 days from date of publication].
    A copy of the application and accompanying exhibits will be 
available for public inspection at the following location: Office of 
the Executive Secretary, Foreign-Trade Zones Board, U.S. Department of 
Commerce, Room 3716, 14th & Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 
20230.

    Dated: March 22, 1995
Dennis Puccinelli,
Acting Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 95-7497 Filed 3-24-95; 8:45 am]
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