[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 199 (Monday, October 16, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Pages 53583-53584]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-25610]



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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
[Docket 59-95]


Foreign-Trade Zone 8, Toledo, OH; Proposed Foreign-Trade Subzone 
BP Exploration & Oil Inc. (Oil Refineries); Lucas, Allen and Wood 
Counties, OH

    An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones Board 
(the Board) by the Toledo-Lucas County Port Authority, grantee of FTZ 
8, requesting special-purpose subzone status for the oil refinery 
system of BP Exploration & Oil Inc., located at sites in Lucas/Allen/
Wood Counties (Toledo and Lima areas), Ohio. The application was 

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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 October 5, 1995.
    BP's Ohio refinery facilities consist of three sites which operate 
as an integrated system: Site 1 (142,000 barrels per day (BPD); 649 
acres)--Toledo refinery and petrochemical feedstock complex located at 
4100 Cedar Point Road (including a tank farm adjacent to the refinery 
on Buckeye Road), in the city of Oregon, Lucas County; Site 2 (170,000 
BPD; 650 acres)--Lima refinery and petrochemical feedstock complex, 
located some 80 miles south of the Toledo refinery at 1150 South 
Metcalf Road along the Ottawa River in Shawnee Township, Allen County; 
Site 3 (17 acres)--crude oil tank farm located midway between the 
refineries at 12716 Tank Farm Road, city of Cygnet, Wood County.
    The refineries (1,000 employees) are used to produce fuels and 
petrochemical feedstocks. Fuels produced include gasoline, jet fuel, 
distillates, residual fuels, and naphthas. Petrochemicals include 
methane, ethane, butane, propane, toluene, benzene, and xylene. 
Refinery by-products include petroleum coke, asphalt and carbon black. 
Approximately one-quarter of the crude oil (nearly all of inputs) and 
some feedstocks are sourced abroad.
    Zone procedures would exempt the refineries 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. The application indicates 
that the savings from zone procedures would help improve the 
refineries' 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 
December 15, 1995. Rebuttal comments in response to material submitted 
during the foregoing period may be submitted during the subsequent 15-
day period (to January 2, 1996).
    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, Bank One Center, 600 
Superior Ave., Suite 700, Cleveland, Ohio 44114
Office of the Executive Secretary, Foreign-Trade Zones Board, Room 
3716, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th & Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., 
Washington, DC 20230

    Dated: October 5, 1995.
Dennis Puccinelli,
Acting Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 95-25610 Filed 10-13-95; 8:45 am]
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