[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 192 (Friday, October 3, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 51829-51830]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-26314]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board
[Order No. 921]


Grant of Authority for Subzone Status; Coastal Mobile Refining 
Company; (Oil Refinery) Mobile County, AL

    Pursuant to its authority under the Foreign-Trade Zones Act of June 
18, 1934, as amended (19 U.S.C. 81a-81u), the Foreign-Trade Zones Board 
(the Board) adopts the following Order:
    Whereas, by an Act of Congress approved June 18, 1934, an Act ``To 
provide for the establishment * * * of foreign-trade zones in ports of 
entry of the United States, to expedite and encourage foreign commerce, 
and for other purposes,'' as amended (19 U.S.C. 81a-81u) (the Act), the 
Foreign-Trade Zones Board (the Board) is authorized to grant to 
qualified corporations the privilege of establishing foreign-trade 
zones in or adjacent to U.S. Customs ports of entry;
    Whereas, the Board's regulations (15 CFR part 400) provide for the 
establishment of special-purpose subzones when existing zone facilities 
cannot serve the specific use involved;
    Whereas, an application from the City of Mobile, Alabama, grantee 
of Foreign-Trade Zone 82, for authority to establish special-purpose 
subzone status at the oil refinery complex of Coastal Mobile Refining 
Company, located in Mobile County, Alabama, was filed by the Board on 
February 12, 1997, and notice inviting public comment was given in the 
Federal Register (FTZ Docket 8-97, 62 FR 8422, 2/25/97); and,
    Whereas, the Board adopts the findings and recommendations of the 
examiner's report, and finds that the requirements of the FTZ Act and 
Board's regulations would be satisfied, and that approval of the 
application would be in the public interest if approval is subject to 
the conditions listed below;

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    Now, therefore, the Board hereby authorizes the establishment of a 
subzone (Subzone 82F) at the oil refinery complex of Coastal Mobile 
Refining Company, located in Mobile County, Alabama, at the locations 
described in the application, subject to the FTZ Act and the Board's 
regulations, including Sec. 400.28, and subject to the following 
conditions:
    1. Foreign status (19 CFR 146.41, 146.42) products consumed as fuel 
for the refinery shall be subject to the applicable duty rate.
    2. Privileged foreign status (19 CFR 146.41) shall be elected on 
all foreign merchandise admitted to the subzone, except that non-
privileged foreign (NPF) status (19 CFR 146.42) may be elected on 
refinery inputs covered under HTSUS Subheadings #2709.00.1000 and # 
2709.00.2000 which are used in the production of asphalt and certain 
intermediate fuel products (examiners report, Appendix C);
    3. The authority with regard to the NPF option is initially granted 
until September 30, 2000, subject to extension.

    Signed at Washington, DC, this 25th day of September 1997.
Robert S. LaRussa,
Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Import Administration, Alternate 
Chairman, Foreign-Trade Zones Board.
John J. Da Ponte, Jr.,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 97-26314 Filed 10-2-97; 8:45 am]
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