[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 250 (Thursday, December 28, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 82320-82321]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-33201]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

(Docket 71-2000)


Foreign-Trade Zone 50, Long Beach, CA; Proposed Foreign-Trade 
Subzone; ARCO Products Company, (Oil Refinery Complex); Long Beach, CA, 
Area

    An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones Board 
(the Board) by the Board of Harbor Commissioners of the City of Long 
Beach, grantee of FTZ 50, requesting special-purpose subzone status for 
the oil refinery complex of Atlantic Richfield Company (ARCO), a 
wholly-owned subsidiary of BP America, located in the Long Beach, 
California, area. 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

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of the Board (15 CFR part 400). It was formally filed on December 14, 
2000.
    The ARCO refinery complex (854 acres) is located at 7 sites in the 
Long Beach area (Los Angeles County), California: Site 1 (268,000 BPD 
capacity, 6.7 million barrel capacity, 646.5 acres)--main refinery 
complex, located at 1801 East Sepulveda Blvd., some 25 miles south of 
downtown Los Angeles; Site 2 (5.5 acres)--Berth 121 of Terminal 1, Long 
Beach Harbor, for receiving crude oil; Site 3 (24 tanks,1.7 million 
barrel capacity, 19 acres )--Terminal 2, Long Beach Harbor, crude oil 
and product storage; Site 4 (27 tanks, 2.1 million barrel capacity, 73 
acres)--Hynes facility for crude and product storage, located at 5900 
Cherry Avenue, Long Beach, some 4 miles northwest of the refinery; Site 
5 (4 tanks, 1.2 million barrel capacity, 15 acres)--``Southern 
California Edison-Long Beach'' leased storage facility, located at 2665 
Seaside Blvd., Long Beach, some 6 miles south of the refinery; Site 6 
(12 tanks, 3.6 million barrel capacity, 75 acres)'' ``Southern 
California Edison-Dominguez'' leased storage facility, 2500 East 
Victoria, Compton, some 5 miles northeast of the refinery; and Site 7 
(20 tanks, 1 million barrel capacity, 20 acres)--Hathaway terminal, 
2350 Hathaway Drive, Signal Hill, some 5 miles east of the refinery.
    The refinery (920 employees) is used to produce fuels and 
petrochemical feedstocks. Fuel products include gasoline, jet fuel, 
distillates, residual fuels, naphthas and motor fuel blendstocks. 
Petrochemical feedstocks and refinery by-products include methane, 
ethane, propane, propylene, butane, petroleum coke and sulfur. Some 15 
percent of the crude oil (91 percent of inputs) is sourced abroad. The 
application also indicates that the company may in the future import 
under FTZ procedures some naphthas, virgin gas oil, natural gas 
condensate, and motor fuel blendstocks.
    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 February 26, 2001. Rebuttal 
comments in response to material submitted during the foregoing period 
may be submitted during the subsequent 15-day period (to March 13, 
2001).
    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, One World Trade 
Center, Suite 1670 , Long Beach, CA 90831;
Office of the Executive Secretary, Foreign-Trade Zones Board, Room 
4008, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th & Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, 
Washington, DC 20230.

    Dated: December 15, 2000.
Dennis Puccinelli,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 00-33201 Filed 12-27-00; 8:45 am]
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