[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 138 (Wednesday, July 19, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Page 37047]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-17767]



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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board
[Docket A(32b1)-11-95]


Foreign-Trade Zone 122--Corpus Christi, TX; Subzone 122B 
Southwestern Refining (Crude Oil Refinery) Request for Modification of 
Restrictions

    A request has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones Board (the 
Board) by the Port of Corpus Christi Authority (PCCA), 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 310 authorizing 
Subzone 122B at the crude oil refinery of Southwestern Refining 
(Southwestern) in Corpus Christi, Texas. (Koch Refining Company is in 
the process of purchasing the refinery.) The request was formally filed 
on July 13, 1995.
    The FTZ Board approved subzone status for the Southwestern refinery 
in 1985 (Subzone 122B, Board Order 310, 50 FR 38020, 9/19/85). The 
approval was subject to certain standard restrictions, including one 
that required the election of privileged foreign status on incoming 
foreign merchandise.
    PCCA is now requesting that this restriction be modified so that 
the refinery 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 [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: July 13, 1995.
Dennis Puccinelli,
Acting Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 95-17767 Filed 7-18-95; 8:45 am]
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