[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 132 (Monday, July 12, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Pages 39662-39663]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-16915]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Docket 43-2010]


Foreign-Trade Subzone 116A--Port Arthur, TX; Expansion of 
Manufacturing Authority; Motiva Enterprises, LLC (Oil Refinery)

    An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones Board 
(the Board) by the Foreign-Trade Zone of Southeast Texas, Inc., grantee 
of FTZ 116, requesting an expansion of the scope of manufacturing 
authority approved within Subzone 116A, on behalf of Motiva 
Enterprises, LLC in Port Arthur, Texas. 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 July 1, 2010.
    Subzone 116A (1,005 employees, 250,000 barrel per day capacity) was 
approved by the Board in 1993 for the manufacture of fuel products and 
certain petrochemical feedstocks (Board Order 668, 59 FR 61, 12-3-1994, 
as amended by Board Order 740, 60 FR 26716-26717, 5-18-1995 and Board 
Order 1116, 65 FR 52696-52697, 9-30-2000). The subzone consists of six 
sites in Jefferson and Hardin Counties, Texas: Site 1: (3,036 acres) 
Port Arthur refinery complex, Jefferson County; Site 2: (402 acres) 
Port Neches Terminal, Jefferson County; Site 3: (126 acres) Port Arthur 
Terminal, Jefferson County; Site 4: (37 acres) Sour Lake underground 
LPG storage facility, Hardin County; Site 5: (63 acres) Seventh Street 
tank facility, Jefferson County; and, Site 6: (97 acres) National 
Station Extension Tank Farm, Jefferson County.
    The current request involves the construction of additional crude 
distillation, coking, integrated hydrocracker/diesel hydrocracker, 
naphtha, catalytic feed, sulfur recovery, power generation and storage 
units within Site 1. The proposed expansion would increase the overall 
crude distillation capacity allowed under FTZ procedures to 600,000 
barrels per day. 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 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 
September 10, 2010. Rebuttal comments in response to material submitted 
during the foregoing period may be submitted during the subsequent 15-
day period to September 27, 2010.
    A copy of the application will be available for public inspection 
at the

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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: July 1, 2010.
Andrew McGilvray,
Executive Secretary.
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