[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 133 (Wednesday, July 11, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Pages 36249-36250]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-17372]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Docket 29-2001]


Foreign-Trade Zone 25--Broward County, Florida; Proposed Foreign-
Trade Subzone, Motiva Enterprises LLC (Petroleum Product Storage), 
Broward County, Florida

    An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones Board 
(the Board) by Broward County, Florida, grantee of FTZ 25, requesting 
special-purpose subzone status for the petroleum product storage 
facility of Motiva Enterprises, LLC (Motiva), located in the Fort 
Lauderdale, Florida, area. The application was submitted

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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 June 29, 2001.
    The Motiva facility (34 acres) is located at 3 sites with 
connecting pipelines in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, (Broward County): 
Site 1 (9 tanks, 550,000 barrel capacity, 18 acres)--South Terminal 
product storage facility is located at 1200 S.E. 28th Street; Site 2 
(15 tanks, 600,000 barrel capacity, 15 acres)--East Terminal product 
storage facility is located at 1500 S.E. 26th Street; Site 3--dock 
manifolds at berths 7, 9, and 13, Port Everglades, leased from Cliff 
Berry & Associates.
    The storage facility is primarily used for the receipt, storage, 
blending and distribution of jet fuel by pipeline to the Miami and Fort 
Lauderdale International Airports. The company also uses the facility 
to store and distribute gasoline, diesel fuel, distillate fuels, and 
blending stocks. Some of the products are or will be sourced from 
abroad or from U.S. refineries under FTZ procedures.
    The Motiva connecting pipelines are used for routing of petroleum 
products to the storage terminals from arriving vessels at the dock 
manifolds. The Motiva South and East Terminals have no direct 
connections with each other and product may be pumped between the two 
terminals through the Motiva pipeline connected through the dock 
manifolds.
    Zone procedures would exempt Motiva from Customs duties and federal 
excise taxes 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 would 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 September 10, 2001. 
Rebuttal comments in response to material submitted during the 
foregoing period may be submitted during the subsequent 15-day period 
(to September 24, 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, 200 E. las Olas 
Blvd. (Sun Sentinel Bldg.), 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: June 29, 2001.
Dennis Puccinelli,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 01-17372 Filed 7-10-01; 8:45 am]
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