[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 56 (Wednesday, March 22, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 15304-15305]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-7093]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[DOCKET 9-2000]


Foreign-Trade Zone 25--Broward County, FL; Application for 
Subzone Status, Coastal Fuels Marketing, Inc. (Fuel Terminal), Port 
Everglades, FL

    An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones Board 
(the

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Board) by Broward County, Florida, grantee of FTZ 25, requesting 
special-purpose subzone status for the fuel distribution terminal of 
Coastal Fuel Marketing, Inc. (Coastal), located in Port Everglades, 
Florida. 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 
March 15, 2000.
    The Coastal facilities (56.5 acres) are located at 2401 Eisenhower 
Boulevard, Port Everglades, Florida. The terminal facilities (72 
employees), are used for the receipt, storage, blending and 
distribution of jet fuel, gasoline, crude oil, asphalt, distillates, 
residual fuels and motor fuel blending stocks for the domestic and 
foreign markets. Some of the products will be sourced from abroad, or 
from U.S. refineries under FTZ procedures.
    Zone procedures would exempt Coastal from Customs duties and 
federal excise taxes on exports and on foreign status jet fuel used for 
international flights. On domestic sales, the company would be able to 
defer Customs duty payments until the products leave the facility. The 
application indicates that the savings from FTZ procedures will help 
improve the facility's international competitiveness.
    No specific manufacturing request is being made at this time. Such 
a request would be made to the Board on a case-by-case basis.
    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 
May 22, 2000. Rebuttal comments in response to material submitted 
during the foregoing period may be submitted during the subsequent 15-
day period to June 5, 2000.
    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, 200 E. las Olas 
Blvd. (Sun Sentinel Building), Suite 1600, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida 
33301-2284
Office of the Executive Secretary, Foreign-Trade Zones Board, Room 
4008, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th & Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, 
Washington, DC 20230

    Dated: March 16, 2000.
Dennis Puccinelli,
Acting Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 00-7093 Filed 3-21-00; 8:45 am]
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