[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 67 (Friday, April 5, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Page 15217]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-8366]



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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
[Docket A(32b1)-3-96]


Foreign-Trade Zone 124--Gramercy, LA, Subzone 124A, TransAmerican 
Natural Gas Corporation (Oil Refinery Complex) Request for Modification 
of Restrictions

    A request has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones Board (the 
Board) by the South Louisiana Port Commission, grantee of FTZ 124, 
pursuant to Sec. 400.32(b)(1) of the Board's regulations, for 
modification of the restrictions in FTZ Board Order 379 (53 FR 11539, 
4/7/88) authorizing Subzone 124A at the crude oil refinery complex of 
TransAmerican Natural Gas Corporation (TransAmerican), in Destrehan, 
Louisiana. The request was formally filed on March 25, 1996.
    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 TransAmerican 
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, xylene, naphthalene, carbon black, other 
aromatic hydrocarbon mixtures, ethane, methane, propane, butane, 
natural gas, ethylene, propylene, butylene, cumene, petroleum jelly, 
paraffin wax, petroleum coke, 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 May 6, 1996.
    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: March 27, 1996.
John J. Da Ponte, Jr.,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 96-8366 Filed 4-4-96; 8:45 am]
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