[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 15 (Tuesday, January 23, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 1747-1748]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-892]



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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
[Docket 1-96]


Foreign-Trade Zone 35, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Proposed 
Foreign-Trade Subzone; Amended Application; Sun Company, Inc. (Oil 
Refinery Complex); Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Area

    In May 1994, the Philadelphia Regional Port Authority (PRPA), 
grantee of FTZ 35, submitted an application to the Foreign-Trade Zones 
Board (the Board) requesting authority for special-purpose subzone 
status at the oil refinery complex of Chevron U.S.A. Products Company 
(Chevron) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (FTZ Doc. 20-94, 59 FR 26784, 
5/24/94). PRPA recently amended the application to include two 
additional refineries and related facilities of Sun Company, Inc. 
(Sun). The changes reflect the purchase of the Chevron refinery by Sun 
and the fact that all three refineries operate as an integrated 
refinery complex. The amended 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 supplants 
the original application, and has been docketed as FTZ Doc. 1-96 
(formally filed 1-11-96).
    The application, as amended, requests subzone status for nine sites 
totalling 2,199 acres, including refineries, storage facilities, 
terminals and connecting pipelines in Philadelphia and southeastern 
Pennsylvania: Site 1 (175,000 barrels per day (BPD), 530 acres)--Marcus 
Hook refinery, Delaware Ave. and Green Street, Delaware County (Marcus 
Hook area), some 15 miles southwest of Philadelphia, with a 113.5-acre 
section located in New Castle County, Delaware; Site 2 (177,000 BPD, 
372 acres)--Girard Point refinery (formerly owned by Chevron), 3001 
Penrose Avenue, Philadelphia, near the junction of the Delaware and 
Schuylkill Rivers; Site 3 (130,000 BPD, 713 acres)--Point Breeze 
refinery, 3144 Passyunk Avenue, Philadelphia, adjacent to the Girard 
Point refinery; Site 4 (175 acres)--No. Two Tank Farm, final product 
storage for the Marcus Hook refinery, located two miles northeast of 
the refinery on Commerce Drive, Delaware County; Site 5 (15.5 acres)--
Hog Island Wharf, crude oil terminal for the Girard Point refinery, 
located 3 miles southwest of the refinery, on the Delaware River, 
adjacent to the Philadelphia International Airport; Site 6 (116 
acres)--Darby Creek Tank Farm, crude oil storage from Hog Island Wharf 
for the Girard Point refinery, 900 Hook Road, Delaware County; Site 7 
(203 acres)--Schuylkill River Tank Farm, product storage for the Girard 
Point refinery, located on the Schuylkill River at 3270 South 70th 
Street, Philadelphia County; Site 8 (74 acres)--Fort Mifflin Terminal, 
crude oil terminal for the Point Breeze refinery, located at Hog Island 
Road on the Delaware River, Delaware County, 2.5 miles south of the 
Philadelphia refineries; and Site 9 (21 miles)--Inter-Refinery 
Pipeline, from the Marcus Hook refinery (New Castle County, Delaware) 
under the Delaware River to a Sun distribution terminal in Gloucester 
County, New Jersey, crossing back under the Delaware River into 
Delaware County, Pennsylvania through the Fort Mifflin Terminal and 
ending at the Point Breeze refinery. The terminals, storage facilities 
and pipelines operate as an integral part of the refinery complex.
    The Sun refinery system (482,000 barrels per day, 2,300 employees) 
is used to produce fuels and petrochemical products. Fuels produced 
include gasoline, jet fuel, distillates and residual fuels. 
Petrochemical feedstocks produced include methane, ethane, propane, 
butane, benzene, toluene, xylene, and cumene. Refinery byproducts 
include sulfur, asphalt and petroleum coke. All of the crude oil (95 
percent of inputs) and certain blendstocks are sourced from abroad.
    Zone procedures would exempt the refinery system 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 
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(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 (as revised, 56 FR 
50790-50808, 10-8-91), 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 
March 25, 1996. Rebuttal comments in response to material submitted 
during the foregoing period may be submitted during the subsequent 15-
day period (to April 8, 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 Ave., Suite 
201, King of Prussia, PA 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: January 16, 1996.
John J. Da Ponte, Jr.,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 96-892 Filed 1-22-96; 8:45 am]
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