[Federal Register Volume 74, Number 208 (Thursday, October 29, 2009)]
[Notices]
[Pages 55812-55813]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E9-26100]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Docket 44-2009]


Foreign-Trade Zone 25--Port Everglades, FL; Application for 
Subzone South Florida Materials Corporation (Fuel Product Storage) Port 
Everglades, FL

    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 fuel product distribution 
terminal of South Florida Materials Corporation (SFMC), located in Port 
Everglades, Florida. 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 October 22, 2009.
    The SFMC terminal (8 employees, 9.93 acres, 1.3 million barrel 
capacity) is located at 1200 SE. 32nd Street, Port Everglades, Florida. 
The facility primarily is used for the receipt, storage and 
distribution of jet fuel by pipeline to carriers operating at the Miami 
International and Fort Lauderdale

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International Airports. The company also uses the facility to store, 
blend and distribute gasoline, diesel fuel, biodiesel, biofuels and 
certain fuel blendstocks, including ethanol. The company is not 
requesting to blend foreign status products in the proposed subzone. 
Some of the products are or will be sourced from abroad or from U.S. 
refineries under FTZ procedures. Duty rates range from duty-free to 
52.5 cents/barrel to 7% ad valorem for fuel products, duty-free to 6.5% 
for biofuels, and 1.9%-2.5% + 14.27 cents/liter for ethanol.
    Zone procedures would exempt SFMC from customs duties and Federal 
excise taxes on foreign status jet fuel used for international flights, 
some 20-35 percent of the terminal's shipments. On domestic sales, the 
company would be able to defer duty payments on foreign status products 
until shipped from the facility and entered for consumption. The 
application indicates that the savings from FTZ procedures would help 
improve the facility's international competitiveness.
    In accordance with the Board's regulations, Diane Finver of the FTZ 
Staff is designated examiner to evaluate and analyze the facts and 
information presented in the application and case record and to report 
findings and recommendations 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 
December 28, 2009. Rebuttal comments in response to material submitted 
during the foregoing period may be submitted during the subsequent 15-
day period to January 12, 2010.
    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 Diane Finver at [email protected] or (202) 482-1367.

    Dated: October 22, 2009.
Andrew McGilvray,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. E9-26100 Filed 10-28-09; 8:45 am]
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