[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 28 (Thursday, February 11, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 6876-6877]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-3415]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board
[Docket 4-99]


Foreign-Trade Zone 31, Granite City, Illinois Application for 
Subzone; Clark Refining & Marketing, Inc. (Oil Refinery Complex) 
Hartford, Illinois

    An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones Board 
(the Board) by the Tri-City Regional Port District, grantee of FTZ 31, 
requesting special-purpose subzone status for the oil refinery complex 
of Clark Refining & Marketing, Inc., located in Hartford, Illinois. 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 February 1, 1999.
    The refinery complex (400 acres) is located at two sites in 
Hartford, Illinois (Madison County), some 15 miles northeast of St. 
Louis, Missouri: Site 1 (65,000 BPD capacity, 240 acres)'main refinery 
complex and storage facility (72 tanks, 2 million barrel capacity), 
located at 201 E. Hawthorne; Site 2 (160 acres)--river dock and three 
connecting pipelines, located west of the refinery on the Mississippi 
River.
    The refinery (300 employees) is used to produce fuels and 
petrochemical feedstocks. Fuel products include gasoline, jet fuel, 
distillates, residual fuels, and motor fuel blendstocks. Petrochemical 
feedstocks and refinery by-products include propane, propylene, 
ethylene, butane, butylene, butadiene, liquified natural gas, benzene, 
toluene, xylene, carbon black oil, petroleum coke, sulfur and asphalt. 
Some 75 to 80 percent of the crude oil (90 percent of inputs) and some 
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 Customs duty rates that 
apply to certain petrochemical feedstocks and refinery by-products 
(duty-free) by admitting incoming foreign crude oil and natural gas 
condensate in non-privileged foreign status. The duty rates on inputs 
range from 5.25 cents/barrel 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 
April 12, 1999. Rebuttal comments in response to material submitted 
during the foregoing period may be submitted during the subsequent 15-
day period to April 27, 1999.
    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, Export Assistance Center, 8182 Maryland 
Avenue, Suite 303, St. Louis, Missouri 63105
Office of the Executive Secretary, Foreign-Trade Zones Board, Room 
3716, U.S. Department of Commerce,

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14th & Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20230

    Dated: February 2, 1999.
Dennis Puccinelli,
Acting Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 99-3415 Filed 2-10-99; 8:45 am]
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