[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 228 (Tuesday, November 28, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Page 58597]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-29069]



-----------------------------------------------------------------------

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
[Docket 75-95]


Foreign-Trade Zone 99, Wilmington, Delaware; Proposed Foreign-
Trade Subzone; Star Enterprise (Oil Refinery Complex); Delaware City, 
DE

    An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones Board 
(the Board) by the Delaware Economic Development Office on behalf of 
the State of Delaware, grantee of FTZ 99, requesting special-purpose 
subzone status for the oil refinery complex of Star Enterprise (general 
partnership between Texaco Refining and Marketing (East), Inc. and 
Saudi Refining, Inc.), located in Delaware City, Delaware. 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 November 13, 
1995.
    The refinery complex (1,800 acres) consists of a main refinery/
petrochemical plant, storage tanks and a marine terminal, located at 
the intersection of Rte. 9 and Rte. 72 on the Delaware River in 
Newcastle County (Delaware City area), Delaware, some 35 miles south of 
Philadelphia.
    The refinery (140,000 barrels per day; 652 employees) is used to 
produce fuels and petrochemical feedstocks. Fuels produced include 
gasoline, distillates and naphthas. Petrochemicals include propane and 
butane, and refinery by-products include sulfur and petroleum coke. All 
of the crude oil (93 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. 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 
January 29, 1996. Rebuttal comments in response to material submitted 
during the foregoing period may be submitted during the subsequent 15-
day period (to February 12, 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, 660 American Avenue, Suite 
201, King of Prussia, Pennsylvania 19406
Office of the Executive Secretary, Foreign-Trade Zones Board, Room 
3716, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th & Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, 
Washington, DC 20230

    Dated: November 20, 1995.
John J. Da Ponte, Jr.,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 95-29069 Filed 11-27-95; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 3510-DS-P