[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 183 (Thursday, September 21, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Pages 48965-48966]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-23486]



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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Foreign-Trade Zones Board
Docket A(32b1)-17-95


Foreign-Trade Zone 84--Houston, TX, Subzone 84J, Shell Oil 
Company (Oil Refinery Complex); Request for Modification of 
Restrictions

    A request has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones Board (the 
Board) by the Port of Houston Authority, grantee of FTZ 84, pursuant to 
Sec. 400.32(b)(1) of the Board's regulations, for modification of the 
restrictions in FTZ Board Order 669 (58 FR 68116, 12/23/93) authorizing 
Subzone 84J at the crude oil refinery complex of Shell Oil Company 
(Shell) in Harris County, Texas. The request was formally filed on 
September 13, 1995.
    The Board Order in question was issued subject to certain standard 
restrictions, including one that required the election of privileged 
foreign status on incoming foreign merchandise. The zone grantee has 
requested that the latter restriction be modified so that Shell 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, other hydrocarbon mixtures, distillates/
residual fuel oils, kerosene, naphthas, liquified petroleum gas, 
ethane, methane, propane, butane, ethylene, 

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propylene, butylene, butadiene, petroleum coke, asphalt, sulfur, and 
sulfuric acid.
    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 October 23, 1995.

    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: September 15, 1995.

John J. Da Ponte, Jr.,

Executive Secretary.

[FR Doc. 95-23486 Filed 9-20-95; 8:45 am]

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