[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 170 (Thursday, September 2, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 48140-48142]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-22925]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign Trade Zones Board
[FTZ Dockets (41(1)-99 to 41(58)-99)]


Requests for Extension of Authority (Crude Oil Refineries/
Petrochemical Complexes)

    Requests have been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones Board (the 
Board) by the following grantees, pursuant to Sec. 400.32(b)(1) of the 
Board's regulations, for a time extension of their authority to elect 
non-privileged foreign status (NPF) on crude oil used in the production 
of certain petrochemical feedstocks and refinery by-products at the 
crude oil refineries/petrochemical complexes of the companies listed 
below. The requests were formally filed on August 23, 1999.
    The FTZ Board has authorized 62 refineries/petrochemical complexes 
to conduct crude oil/petrochemical product refining activity under FTZ 
procedures, subject to certain standard restrictions listed below:
    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-
#2710.00.1050, #2710.00.2500 and #2710.00.4510 which are used in the 
production of:

---certain petrochemical feedstocks and refinery by-products; -products 
for export;
--and, products eligible for entry under HTSUS #9808.00.30 and 
#9808.00.40 (U.S. Government purchases).

    3. The authority with regard to the NPF option is initially granted 
until September 30, 2000, subject to extension.
    The zone grantees on behalf of the refining facilities listed below 
are now requesting that the authority for the NPF option be extended.
    The refineries/petrochemical complexes produce fuels and 
petrochemical feedstocks from crude oil and other inputs, such as 
naphtha and natural gas condensate. Fuel products include gasoline, jet 
fuel, distillates, residual fuels, and motor fuel blendstocks. 
Petrochemical feedstocks and refinery by-products produced under zone 
procedures (NPF option) have included: benzene, toluene, xylene, 
naphthalene, natural gas--liquified & gaseous, ethane, propane, butane, 
ethylene, propylene, butylene, butadiene, paraffin waxes & petroleum 
jelly, carbon black oil, petroleum coke, asphalt, sulfur, sulfuric 
acid, cumene, pseudocumene, other aromatic hydrocarbon mixtures, and 
mixtures of hydrocarbons not elsewhere specified. The requests seek to 
expand the scope of NPF authority to include additional petrochemical 
feedstocks that have recently become duty-free under staged tariff 
reductions of the Uruguay Round of GATT. These product categories 
include: calcined petroleum coke, n-pentane and isopentane, isoprene, 
dicyclopentadiene, styrene, and certain other saturated and unsaturated 
acyclic and cyclic hydrocarbons. (Although the refineries vary in their 
product mix, the review would generally include the full range of 
products listed above for all refineries.)
    Zone procedures exempt the refineries from Customs duty payments on 
the foreign products used in exports. On domestic sales, the NPF option 
allows the companies to choose the Customs duty rates that apply to 
certain petrochemical feedstocks and refinery by-products (HTSUS duty 
rates for most of these products are zero) by admitting incoming 
foreign crude oil and natural gas condensate in non-privileged foreign 
status. Such petrochemicals and by-products account for about 25 to 30 
percent of refinery activity, on average. The duty rates on inputs 
range from 5.25 cents/barrel to 10.5 cents/barrel. Duties on inputs 
used to make fuel products (motor gasoline, jet fuel, blendstocks), 
which constitute some 70 to 75 percent of production, will continue to 
be dutiable at the crude oil rate. The applications indicate that the 
continuation of authority to elect non-privileged foreign status will 
contribute to the refineries' international competitiveness.

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          Board order               Subzone           Company            Location              Docket No.
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Grantee: Board of Commissioners
 of the Port of New Orleans:
    791........................  2H             Chalmette Refinery  Chalmette, LA.....  Doc. 41(1)-99
                                                 LC.
    821........................  2I             BP Amoco, plc.....  Belle Chasse, LA..  Doc. 41(2)-99
    895........................  2J             Murphy Oil USA,     St. Bernard         Doc. 41(3)-99
                                                 Inc.                Parish, LA.
Grantee: Port of San Francisco:  3B             Chevron U.S.A. Inc  Richmond, CA......  Doc. 41(4)-99
 974.
Grantee: Toledo-Lucas County
 Port Authority:
    822........................  8F             BP Amoco, plc.....  Toledo, OH........  Doc. 41(5)-99
    822........................  8G             Clark Refining and  Lima, OH..........  Doc. 41(6)-99
                                                 Marketing, Inc.
Grantee: State of Hawaii: 415..  9E             Chevron Products    Oahu, HI..........  Doc. 41(7)-99
                                                 Co.
Grantee: Virginia Port           20C            BP Amoco plc......  Yorktown, VA......  Doc. 41(8)-99
 Authority: 761.
Grantee: Illinois International
 Port District:
    779........................  22I            PDV Midwest         Will County, IL...  Doc. 41(9)-99
                                                 Refining.
    960........................  22J            Mobil Oil           Chicago, IL.......  Doc. 41(10)-99
                                                 Corporation.
Grantee: Tri-City Regional Port  31B            Motiva Enterprises  Madison Co., IL...  Doc. 41(11)-99
 District: 878.                                  LLC.
Grantee: Philadelphia Regional
 Port Authority:
    838........................  35C            Sun Company, Inc..  Philadelphia, PA..  Doc. 41(12)-99
    891........................  35D            Tosco Corporation.  Delaware Co., PA..  Doc. 41(13)-99
Grantee: Greater Cincinnati      47B            Marathon Ashland    Boone Co., KY.....  Doc. 41(14)-99
 FTZ, Inc.: 865.                                 Petroleum LLC.

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Grantee: The Port Authority of
 New York and New Jersey:
    792........................  49E            Tosco Corp........  Linden, NJ........  Doc. 41(15)-99
    880........................  49F            Chevron Products    Perth Amboy, NJ...  Doc. 41(16)-99
                                                 Co.
Grantee: Greater Detroit         70T            Marathon Ashland    Detroit, MI.......  Doc. 41(17)-99
 Foreign-Trade Zone, Inc.: 879.                  Petroleum LLC.
Grantee: City of Mobile:
    921........................  82F            Coastal Mobile      Mobile, AL........  Doc. 41(18)-99
                                                 Refining.
    962........................  82G            Shell Oil Company.  Mobile, AL........  Doc. 41(19)-99
Grantee: The Port of Houston
 Authority:
    552........................  84F            Valero Refining Co  Houston, TX.......  Doc. 41(20)-99
    669........................  84J            Shell Oil Company.  Harris County, TX.  Doc. 41(21)-99
    793........................  84N            Crown Central       Houston, TX.......  Doc. 41(22)-99
                                                 Petroleum.
    837........................  84O            Exxon Corporation.  Baytown, TX.......  Doc. 41(23)-99
    961........................  84P            LYONDELL-CITGO      Houston, TX.......  Doc. 41(24)-99
                                                 Refining LP.
    975........................  84Q            Equistar Chemicals  Houston, TX.......  Doc. 41(25)-99
                                                 LP.
Grantee: Lake Charles Harbor
 and Terminal District:
    808........................  87A            Conoco, Inc.......  Lake Charles, LA..  Doc. 41(26)-99
    760........................  87B            Citgo Petroleum     Lake Charles, LA..  Doc. 41(27)-99
                                                 Corp.
Grantee: Greater Gulfport/       92D            Chevron U.S.A.      Pascagoula, MS....  Doc. 41(28)-99
 Biloxi Foreign Trade Zone,                      Products Company.
 Inc.: 747.
Grantee: Delaware Economic       99E            Motiva              Delaware City, DE.  Doc. 41(29)-99
 Development Office: 831.                        Enterprises, LLC.
Grantee: Savannah Airport        104C           Citgo Asphalt       Savannah, GA......  Doc. 41(30)-99
 Commission: 805.                                Refining Co.
Grantee: Foreign Trade Zone of
 Southeast Texas, Inc.:
    780........................  115B           Mobil Corporation.  Beaumont, TX......  Doc. 41(31)-99
    740........................  116A           Motiva              Port Arthur, TX...  Doc. 41(32)-99
                                                 Enterprises, LLC.
    772........................  116B           Fina Oil Company..  Port Arthur, TX...  Doc. 41(33)-99
    848........................  116C           Clark Refining &    Port Arthur, TX...  Doc. 41(34)-99
                                                 Marketing Inc.
Grantee: Port of Corpus Christi
 Authority:
    782........................  122A           Coastal Refining &  Corpus Christi, TX  Doc. 41(35)-99
                                                 Marketing, Inc.
    765........................  122C           Trifinery           Corpus Christi, TX  Doc. 41(36)-99
                                                 Petroleum.
    407........................  122I           Citgo Refining &    Corpus Christi, TX  Doc. 41(37)-99
                                                 Chemicals Co., LP.
    414........................  122J           Valero Refining     Corpus Christi, TX  Doc. 41(38)-99
                                                 Company.
    535........................  122L           Koch Petroleum      Corpus Christi, TX  Doc. 41(39)-99
                                                 Group.
    1031.......................  122M           Diamond Shamrock    Three Rivers, TX..  Doc. 41(40)-99
                                                 Refining Co., LP.
Grantee: South Louisiana Port
 Commission:
    379........................  124A           Orion Refining      Destrehan, LA.....  Doc. 41(41)-99
                                                 Corp.
    739........................  124C           Motiva              Convent, LA.......  Doc. 41(42)-99
                                                 Enterprises, LLC.
    773........................  124E           Marathon Ashland    Garyville, LA.....  Doc. 41(43)-99
                                                 Petroleum, LP.
    839........................  124F           Motiva              Norco, LA.........  Doc. 41(44)-99
                                                 Enterprises, LLC.
Grantee: Port of Philadelphia
 and Camden, Inc.:
    790........................  142A           Valero Refining Co  Paulsboro, NJ.....  Doc. 41(45)-99
    806........................  142B           Citgo Asphalt       Paulsboro, NJ.....  Doc. 41(46)-99
                                                 Refinery.
    894........................  142C           Coastal Eagle       Eagle Point, NJ...  Doc. 41(47)-99
                                                 Point Oil.
Grantee: Bi-State Authority:     146D           Marathon Ashland    Robinson, Il......  Doc. 41(48)-99
 781.                                            Petroleum, LLC.
Grantee: Port Freeport Brazos
 River Harbor Navigation
 District:
    920........................  149C           Phillips Petroleum  Sweeney, TX.......  Doc. 41(49)-99
                                                 Co.
    999........................  149E           BP Amoco Chemical,  Brazoria Co., TX..  Doc. 41(50)-99
                                                 plc.
Grantee: Indiana Port            152B           BP Amoco, plc.....  Whiting, IN.......  Doc. 41(51)-99
 Commission: 762.
Grantee: Greater Baton Rouge     154A           Exxon Corporation.  Baton Rouge, LA...  Doc. 41(52)-99
 Port Commission: 847.
Grantee: Board of County         161B           Equilon             El Dorado, KS.....  Doc. 41(53)-99
 Commissioners of Sedgwick                       Enterprises, LLC.
 County, Kansas: 862.
Grantee: Northeast Ohio Trade    181A           Marathon Ashland    Canton, OH........  Doc. 41(54)-99
 and Economic Consortium: 864.                   Petroleum, LLC.
Grantee: Texas City Foreign
 Trade Zone Corporation:
    731........................  199A           BP Amoco, plc.....  Texas City, TX....  Doc. 41(55)-99
    830........................  199B           Marathon Ashland    Texas City, TX....  Doc. 41(56)-99
                                                 Petroleum, LLC.
    863........................  199C           Valero Refining Co  Texas City, TX....  Doc. 41(57)-99
Grantee: Port Of Los Angeles:    202B           Chevron U.S.A. Inc  El Segundo, CA....  Doc. 41(58)-99
 959.
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    Public comment on the proposals 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 November 1, 1999.
    Copies of the requests 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: August 24, 1999.
Dennis Puccinelli,
Acting Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 99-22925 Filed 9-1-99; 8:45 am]
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