[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 114 (Wednesday, June 14, 2006)]
[Notices]
[Page 34303]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E6-9288]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Docket 21-2006]


Foreign-Trade Zone 99 - Wilmington, Delaware, Expansion of 
Manufacturing Authority--Subzone 99E, The Premcor Refining Group Inc., 
Delaware City, Delaware

    An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones Board 
(the Board) by the Delaware Economic Development Office, grantee of FTZ 
99, requesting authority on behalf of The Premcor Refining Group Inc. 
(Premcor), to expand the scope of manufacturing activity conducted 
under zone procedures within Subzone 99E at the Premcor oil refinery 
complex in Delaware City, Delaware. 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 31, 2006.
    Subzone 99E (152,000 BPD capacity 2,450 employees) was approved by 
the Board in 1996 for the manufacture of fuel products and certain 
petrochemical feedstocks and refinery by-products (Board Order 831, 61 
FR 33490, 6/27/96, as amended by Board Order 1116, 65 FR 52696, 8/30/
00).
    The refinery complex (1,800 acres) consists of a main refinery/
petrochemical plant, storage tanks and a marine terminal, located at 
2000 Wrangle Hill Road, Delaware City in Newcastle County, Delaware, 
some 35 miles south of Philadelphia.
    The expansion request involves an expansion of the crude throughput 
at the refinery due to increased efficiencies, improvements in 
equipment reliability and longer cycles between turnarounds to increase 
the overall crude distillation capacity of the refinery to 180,000 BPD. 
No additional feedstocks or products have been requested.
    Zone procedures would exempt the increased production 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 for 
certain petrochemical feedstocks (duty-free) by admitting foreign crude 
oil in non-privileged foreign status. The application indicates that 
the savings from zone procedures help improve the refinery's 
international competitiveness.
    In accordance with the Board's regulations, a member of the FTZ 
staff has been appointed 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 
August 14, 2006. Rebuttal comments in response to material submitted 
during the foregoing period may be submitted during the subsequent 15-
day period to August 28, 2006.
    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, The Curtis 
Center, Suite 580 West, Independence Square West, Philadelphia, PA 
19106.
Office of the Executive Secretary, Foreign-Trade Zones Board, U.S. 
Department of Commerce, Room 1115, 1401 Constitution Ave. NW., 
Washington, DC 20230.

    Dated: May 31, 2006.
Dennis Puccinelli,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. E6-9288 Filed 6-13-06; 8:45 am]
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