[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 102 (Friday, May 26, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Pages 27956-27957]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-13012]



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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Foreign-Trade Zones Board
[Docket 25-95]


Foreign-Trade Zone 146, Lawrence County, Illinois; Application 
for Subzone Status, Marathon Oil Company (Oil Refinery), Robinson, 
Illinois

    An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones Board 
(the Board) by the Bi-State Authority, grantee of FTZ 146, requesting 
special-purpose subzone status for the oil refinery of Marathon Oil 
Company (Marathon) (subsidiary of USX Corporation), located in 
Robinson, Illinois. 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 May 19, 1995.
    The refinery (890 acres) is located at Marathon Ave. and State Hwy 
33 in Robinson, Crawford County, in southeastern Illinois, some 150 
miles east of St. Louis. The refinery (180,000 barrels per day; 570 
employees) is used to produce fuels and petrochemical feedstocks. Fuels 
produced include gasoline, jet fuel, kerosene, fuel oil and residual 
oil. Petrochemical feedstocks produced include butane and propane, and 
refinery by-products include petroleum coke and sulfur. Some 30 percent 
of the crude oil (some 80 percent of inputs) and some feedstocks used 
by the refinery are sourced from abroad.
    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, 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 
July 25, 1995. Rebuttal comments in response to material submitted 
during the foregoing period may be submitted during the subsequent 15-
day period to August 9, 1995.
    A copy of the application and accompanying exhibits will be 
available for public inspection at each of the following locations:

Lawrence County Industrial Development Council, County Courthouse, 
Lawrenceville, Illinois 62439.
Office of the Executive Secretary, Foreign-Trade Zones Board, Room 
3716, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th & Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., 
Washington, DC 20230.

     [[Page 27957]] Dated: May 22, 1995.
Dennis Puccinelli,
Acting Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 95-13012 Filed 5-25-95; 8:45 am]
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