[Federal Register Volume 74, Number 26 (Tuesday, February 10, 2009)]
[Notices]
[Pages 6569-6570]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E9-2643]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Docket 3-2009]


Foreign-Trade Zone 124--Gramercy, LA; Expansion of Subzone; 
Marathon Petroleum Company LLC (Oil Refinery); Garyville, LA

    An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones Board 
(the Board) by the Port of South Louisiana, grantee of FTZ 124, 
requesting authority to expand the subzone and the scope of 
manufacturing activity conducted under zone procedures within Subzone 
124E, on behalf of Marathon Petroleum Company LLC in Garyville, 
Louisiana. 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 
February 3, 2009.
    Subzone 124E (950 employees, 255,000 barrel per day capacity) was 
approved by the Board in 1995 for the manufacture of fuel products and 
certain petrochemical feedstocks (Board Order 773, 60 FR 49565, 9/26/
1995, as amended by Board Order 1116, 65 FR 52696-52697, 9/30/2000). 
The subzone consists of one site (1,370 acres) located between U.S. 61 
and the Mississippi River in Garyville, St. John the Baptist Parish, 
Louisiana, some 35 miles northwest of New Orleans.
    The applicant is now requesting authority to expand the subzone to 
include an additional parcel (319 acres) adjacent to the subzone. The 
proposed expansion would include a new crude processing ``train'' as 
well as downstream units and would increase employment at the facility 
by 285. The expansion request also includes seven new hydrocarbon 
storage tanks within the existing subzone boundary and a new ``receipts 
dock'' for the admission of crude oil and other feedstocks into the 
refinery. The proposed expansion would increase the overall crude 
distillation capacity allowed under FTZ procedures to 435,000 barrels 
per day.

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No additional feedstocks or products have been requested.
    Zone procedures would exempt production associated with the 
proposed expansion from customs duty payments on the foreign products 
used in 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, Elizabeth Whiteman of 
the FTZ Staff is 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 
April 13, 2009. Rebuttal comments in response to material submitted 
during the foregoing period may be submitted during the subsequent 15-
day period to April 27, 2009.
    A copy of the application will be available for public inspection 
at the Office of the Executive Secretary, Foreign-Trade Zones Board, 
Room 2111, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue, NW., 
Washington, DC 20230-0002, and in the ``Reading Room'' section of the 
Board's Web site, which is accessible via http://www.trade.gov/ftz.
    For further information, contact Elizabeth Whiteman at [email protected] or (202) 482-0473.

    Dated: February 3, 2009.
Andrew McGilvray,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. E9-2643 Filed 2-6-09; 8:45 am]
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