[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 123 (Tuesday, June 27, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Pages 33187-33188]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-15608]



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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
[Docket 32-95]


Foreign-Trade Zone 49, Newark, NJ; Proposed Foreign-Trade 
Subzone; Bayway Refining Company (Oil Refinery), Linden, NJ

    An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones Board 
(the Board) by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, grantee 
of FTZ 49, requesting special-purpose subzone status for the oil 
refinery complex of Bayway Refining Company (Bayway) (subsidiary of 
Tosco Corporation), located in Linden, New Jersey. 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 June 19, 1995.
    The refinery complex (1,250 acres) is located at 1400 Park Avenue, 
Linden (Union County), New Jersey, some 10 miles south of Newark. The 
refinery (220,000 barrels of crude oil per day; 950 employees) is used 
to produce fuels and petrochemical feedstocks. Fuels produced include 
gasoline, jet fuel, diesel fuel, fuel oil, kerosene, and naphtha. 
Petrochemical feedstocks include butane, butylene, propane, ethylene, 
propylene, and petroleum gas. Refinery by-products include petroleum 
coke. All of the crude oil (80% of inputs), some feedstocks and some 
blendstocks are sourced abroad.
    Zone procedures would exempt Bayway 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 to 10.5/barrel. The application indicates that the savings from 
zone procedures [[Page 33188]] 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 
August 28, 1995. Rebuttal comments in response to material submitted 
during the foregoing period may be submitted during the subsequent 15-
day period (to September 11, 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, Room 3718, Federal Office 
Building, 26 Federal Plaza, New York, NY 10278
Office of the Executive Secretary, Foreign-Trade Zones Board, Room 
3716, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th & Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., 
Washington, DC 20230.

    Dated: June 19, 1995.
John J. Da Ponte, Jr.,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 95-15608 Filed 6-26-95; 8:45 am]
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