[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 95 (Tuesday, May 16, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Page 31141]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-12208]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Docket 18-2000]


Foreign-Trade Zone 106--Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; Application for 
Subzone, Conoco Inc. (Oil Refinery Complex), Ponca City, Oklahoma

    An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones Board 
(the Board) by the Port Authority of the Greater Oklahoma City Area, 
grantee of FTZ 106, requesting special-purpose subzone status for the 
oil refinery complex of Conoco Inc., located in Ponca City, Oklahoma. 
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 
May 3, 2000.
    The refinery complex (185,000 BPD capacity, 119 storage tanks with 
over 14 million barrels of capacity) is located at 1000 South Pine 
Street, Ponca City, Oklahoma. The refinery (1,600 acres, 1,855 
employees) is used to produce fuels and liquid petroleum gases, 
including gasoline, jet fuel, distillates, residual fuels, naphthas, 
motor fuel blendstocks, liquefied petroleum gas, butane, isobutane, and 
petroleum gases. Refinery by-products include petroleum coke, asphalt 
and sulfur. Some 10 percent of the crude oil (96 percent of inputs), 
and some naphthas, virgin gas oil and 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 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 
July 17, 2000. Rebuttal comments in response to material submitted 
during the foregoing period may be submitted during the subsequent 15-
day period to July 31, 2000.
    A copy of the application and the accompanying exhibits will be 
available for public inspection at each of the following locations:

U.S. Department of Commerce, Export Assistance Center, 301 Northwest 
63rd Street, Suite 330, Oklahoma City, OK 73116
Office of the Executive Secretary, Foreign-Trade Zones Board, Room 
4008, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th and Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., 
Washington, D.C. 20230

    Dated: May 7, 2000.
Dennis Puccinelli,
Acting Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 00-12208 Filed 5-15-00; 8:45 am]
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