[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 127 (Monday, July 3, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Pages 34510-34511]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-16309]



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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
[Docket 34-95]


Foreign-Trade Zone 84, Houston, TX Proposed Foreign-Trade Subzone 
Crown Central Petroleum Corporation (Oil Refinery Complex) Harris 
County, Texas

    An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones Board 
(the Board) by the Port of Houston Authority, grantee of FTZ 84, 
requesting special-purpose subzone status for the oil refinery complex 
of Crown Central Petroleum Corporation (Crown), located in Harris 
County, Texas. 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 23, 1995.
    The refinery complex (341 acres) consists of 2 sites in Harris 
County, Texas: Site 1 (200 acres)--main refinery and petrochemical 
feedstock complex located on the Houston Ship Channel, at 111 Red Bluff 
Road, Houston; and Site 2 (141 acres)--Crown Tank Farm and Terminal, 
located at 1200 Red Bluff Road, Pasadena.
    The refinery (100,000 barrels per day; 380 employees) is used to 
produce fuels and petrochemical feedstocks. Fuels produced include 
gasoline, jet fuel, kerosene, gas oil, diesel fuel, residual fuels, and 
naphthas. Petrochemicals include methane, ethane, butane, propane, and 
propylene. Refinery by-products include sulfur and petroleum coke. 
Almost 80 percent of the crude oil (80 percent of inputs) and some 
feedstocks and motor fuel blendstocks are sourced 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. Foreign merchandise would 
also be exempt from state and local ad valorem taxes. 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 
September 1, 1995. Rebuttal comments in response to material submitted 
during the foregoing period may be submitted during the subsequent 15-
day period to September 18, 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, #1 Allen Center, Suite 
1160, 500 Dallas, Houston, Texas 77002
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 26, 1995.
John J. Da Ponte, Jr.,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 95-16309 Filed 6-30-95; 8:45 am]
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