[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 88 (Monday, May 8, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Pages 22543-22544]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-11253]



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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
[Docket A(32b1)-6-95]


Foreign-Trade Zone 122--Corpus Christi, TX, Subzone 122L, Koch 
Refining Company (Crude Oil Refinery Complex); Request for Modification 
of Restriction

    A request has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones Board (the 
Board) by the Port of Corpus Christi Authority, grantee of FTZ 122, 
pursuant to Sec. 400.32(b)(1) of the Board's regulations, for 
modification of the restrictions in FTZ Board Order 535 authorizing 
Subzone 122L at the crude oil refinery complex of Koch Refining Company 
(Koch) in Corpus Christi, Texas. The request was formally filed on 
April 26, 1995.
    The FTZ Board approved subzone status for the Koch refinery in 1991 
(Subzone 122L, Board Order 535, 56 FR 43905, 9/5/91). The approval was 
subject to certain standard restrictions, including one that required 
the election of privileged foreign status on incoming foreign 
merchandise.
    The company is now requesting that this restriction be modified so 
that it 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, liquified natural 
gas, ethane, propane, butane, ethylene, propylene, butylene, butadiene, 
petroleum coke, asphalt, sulfur, sulfuric acid, cumene and 
pseudocumene.
    The request cites 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 June 7, 1995.
    A copy of the application and accompanying exhibits will be 
available for public inspection at the following 
[[Page 22544]] 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: May 1, 1995.
John J. Da Ponte, Jr.,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 95-11253 Filed 5-5-95; 8:45 am]
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