[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 126 (Monday, July 1, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Page 44172]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-16510]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Docket 28-2002]


Foreign-Trade Zone 84, Houston, TX Application for Expansion

    An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones Board 
(the Board) by the Port of Houston Authority, grantee of FTZ 84, 
requesting authority to expand its zone to include a site at the 
Williams Terminals Holdings, L.P. (Williams) petroleum products storage 
terminal located near Galena Park, Harris County, Texas, within the 
Houston-Galveston Customs Port of Entry. 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 June 25, 2002.
    FTZ 84 was approved on July 15, 1983. The zone project currently 
consists of 14 sites in Harris County, Texas.
    The applicant is now requesting authority to expand the general-
purpose zone to include Proposed Site 15 (196 acres)--at the Williams 
Terminals Holdings, L.P. (Williams) petroleum terminal located in 
Harris County, Texas, near Galena Park. The site includes all of the 
facilities of the Williams Galena Park Terminal, including the 
buildings, dock facilities, storage tanks, pipelines, manifolds, pumps, 
valves, filters, meters, etc. The terminal includes 138 storage tanks 
for intermediate and finished petroleum products with a total capacity 
of 9,077,800 barrels. The facilities (50 employees) will primarily be 
used to store and distribute intermediates and finished petroleum 
products for oil refineries and petrochemical plants. Some of the 
products are or will be sourced from abroad or from U.S. subzone 
refineries under zone procedures. Williams will be the operator of the 
site.
    Zone procedures would exempt Williams' customers from Customs 
duties and federal excise taxes on foreign status jet fuel used for 
international flights and from Customs duties on petroleum product 
exports. On domestic sales, customers would be able to defer Customs 
duty payments on foreign status products until they leave the facility. 
The application indicates that the savings from zone procedures for its 
customers would help them improve their international competitiveness.
    No specific manufacturing requests are being made at this time. 
Such requests would be made 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 one of the following addresses:
    1. Submissions Via Express/Package Delivery Services: Foreign-
Trade-Zones Board, U.S. Department of Commerce, Franklin Court 
Building--Suite 4100W, 1099 14th St. NW, Washington, DC 20005; or
    2. Submissions Via the U.S. Postal Service: Foreign-Trade-Zones 
Board, U.S. Department of Commerce, FCB--Suite 4100W, 1401 Constitution 
Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20230.
    The closing period for their receipt is August 30, 2002. Rebuttal 
comments in response to material submitted during the foregoing period 
may be submitted during the subsequent 15-day period until September 
16, 2002.
    A copy of the application and accompanying exhibits will be 
available for public inspection at the Office of the Foreign-Trade 
Zones Board's Executive Secretary at address Number 1 listed above, and 
at the U.S. Department of Commerce Export Assistance Center, 500 
Dallas, Suite 1160, Houston, Texas 77002.

    Dated: June 25, 2002.
Dennis Puccinelli,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 02-16510 Filed 6-28-02; 8:45 am]
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