[Federal Register: September
2, 1999 (Volume 64, Number 170)]
[Notices]
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DEPARTMENT OF
COMMERCE
Foreign Trade Zones
Board
[FTZ Dockets (41(1)-99 to
41(58)-99)]
Requests for Extension of
Authority (Crude Oil Refineries/
Petrochemical
Complexes)
Requests
have been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones Board
(the
Board) by the following
grantees, pursuant to Sec. 400.32(b)(1) of the
Board's regulations, for a
time extension of their authority to elect
non-privileged foreign status
(NPF) on crude oil used in the production
of certain petrochemical
feedstocks and refinery by-products at the
crude oil
refineries/petrochemical complexes of the companies
listed
below. The requests were
formally filed on August 23, 1999.
The FTZ
Board has authorized 62 refineries/petrochemical
complexes
to conduct crude
oil/petrochemical product refining activity under FTZ
procedures, subject to
certain standard restrictions listed below:
1. Foreign
status (19 CFR 146.41, 146.42) products consumed as fuel
for the refinery shall be
subject to the applicable duty rate.
2.
Privileged foreign status (19 CFR 146.41) shall be elected
on
all foreign merchandise
admitted to the subzone, except that non-
privileged foreign (NPF)
status (19 CFR 146.42) may be elected on
refinery inputs covered under
HTSUS Subheadings #2709.00.1000-
#2710.00.1050, #2710.00.2500
and #2710.00.4510 which are used in the
production of:
---certain petrochemical
feedstocks and refinery by-products; -products
for export;
--and, products eligible for
entry under HTSUS #9808.00.30 and
#9808.00.40 (U.S. Government
purchases).
3. The
authority with regard to the NPF option is initially
granted
until September 30, 2000,
subject to extension.
The zone
grantees on behalf of the refining facilities listed
below
are now requesting that the
authority for the NPF option be extended.
The
refineries/petrochemical complexes produce fuels and
petrochemical feedstocks from
crude oil and other inputs, such as
naphtha and natural gas
condensate. Fuel products include gasoline, jet
fuel, distillates, residual
fuels, and motor fuel blendstocks.
Petrochemical feedstocks and
refinery by-products produced under zone
procedures (NPF option) have
included: benzene, toluene, xylene,
naphthalene, natural
gas--liquified & gaseous, ethane, propane, butane,
ethylene, propylene,
butylene, butadiene, paraffin waxes & petroleum
jelly, carbon black oil,
petroleum coke, asphalt, sulfur, sulfuric
acid, cumene, pseudocumene,
other aromatic hydrocarbon mixtures, and
mixtures of hydrocarbons not
elsewhere specified. The requests seek to
expand the scope of NPF
authority to include additional petrochemical
feedstocks that have recently
become duty-free under staged tariff
reductions of the Uruguay
Round of GATT. These product categories
include: calcined petroleum
coke, n-pentane and isopentane, isoprene,
dicyclopentadiene, styrene,
and certain other saturated and unsaturated
acyclic and cyclic
hydrocarbons. (Although the refineries vary in their
product mix, the review would
generally include the full range of
products listed above for all
refineries.)
Zone
procedures exempt the refineries from Customs duty payments
on
the foreign products used in
exports. On domestic sales, the NPF option
allows the companies to
choose the Customs duty rates that apply to
certain petrochemical
feedstocks and refinery by-products (HTSUS duty
rates for most of these
products are zero) by admitting incoming
foreign crude oil and natural
gas condensate in non-privileged foreign
status. Such petrochemicals
and by-products account for about 25 to 30
percent of refinery activity,
on average. The duty rates on inputs
range from 5.25 cents/barrel
to 10.5 cents/barrel. Duties on inputs
used to make fuel products
(motor gasoline, jet fuel, blendstocks),
which constitute some 70 to
75 percent of production, will continue to
be dutiable at the crude oil
rate. The applications indicate that the
continuation of authority to
elect non-privileged foreign status will
contribute to the refineries'
international competitiveness.
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Board
order
Subzone
Company
Location
Docket No.
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Grantee: Board of
Commissioners
of the Port of New
Orleans:
791........................
2H
Chalmette Refinery Chalmette, LA..... Doc.
41(1)-99
LC.
821........................
2I
BP Amoco, plc..... Belle Chasse, LA.. Doc.
41(2)-99
895........................
2J
Murphy Oil USA, St.
Bernard Doc.
41(3)-99
Inc.
Parish, LA.
Grantee: Port of San
Francisco:
3B
Chevron U.S.A. Inc Richmond, CA...... Doc.
41(4)-99
974.
Grantee: Toledo-Lucas
County
Port Authority:
822........................
8F
BP Amoco, plc..... Toledo, OH........ Doc.
41(5)-99
822........................
8G
Clark Refining and Lima, OH.......... Doc.
41(6)-99
Marketing, Inc.
Grantee: State of Hawaii:
415..
9E
Chevron Products Oahu, HI.......... Doc.
41(7)-99
Co.
Grantee: Virginia
Port
20C
BP Amoco plc...... Yorktown, VA...... Doc.
41(8)-99
Authority: 761.
Grantee: Illinois
International
Port District:
779........................
22I
PDV Midwest Will
County, IL... Doc. 41(9)-99
Refining.
960........................
22J
Mobil
Oil
Chicago, IL....... Doc. 41(10)-99
Corporation.
Grantee: Tri-City Regional
Port
31B
Motiva Enterprises Madison Co., IL... Doc.
41(11)-99
District:
878.
LLC.
Grantee: Philadelphia
Regional
Port Authority:
838........................
35C
Sun Company, Inc.. Philadelphia, PA.. Doc.
41(12)-99
891........................
35D
Tosco Corporation. Delaware Co., PA.. Doc.
41(13)-99
Grantee: Greater
Cincinnati
47B
Marathon Ashland Boone Co., KY..... Doc.
41(14)-99
FTZ, Inc.:
865.
Petroleum LLC.
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Grantee: The Port Authority
of
New York and New
Jersey:
792........................
49E
Tosco Corp........ Linden, NJ........ Doc.
41(15)-99
880........................
49F
Chevron Products Perth Amboy, NJ... Doc.
41(16)-99
Co.
Grantee: Greater
Detroit
70T
Marathon Ashland Detroit, MI....... Doc.
41(17)-99
Foreign-Trade Zone, Inc.:
879.
Petroleum LLC.
Grantee: City of
Mobile:
921........................
82F
Coastal Mobile Mobile,
AL........ Doc. 41(18)-99
Refining.
962........................
82G
Shell Oil Company. Mobile, AL........ Doc.
41(19)-99
Grantee: The Port of
Houston
Authority:
552........................
84F
Valero Refining Co Houston, TX....... Doc.
41(20)-99
669........................
84J
Shell Oil Company. Harris County, TX. Doc.
41(21)-99
793........................
84N
Crown Central Houston,
TX....... Doc. 41(22)-99
Petroleum.
837........................
84O
Exxon Corporation. Baytown, TX....... Doc.
41(23)-99
961........................
84P
LYONDELL-CITGO Houston,
TX....... Doc. 41(24)-99
Refining LP.
975........................
84Q
Equistar Chemicals Houston, TX....... Doc.
41(25)-99
LP.
Grantee: Lake Charles
Harbor
and Terminal
District:
808........................
87A
Conoco, Inc....... Lake Charles, LA.. Doc.
41(26)-99
760........................
87B
Citgo Petroleum Lake Charles, LA..
Doc. 41(27)-99
Corp.
Grantee: Greater
Gulfport/
92D
Chevron U.S.A. Pascagoula,
MS.... Doc. 41(28)-99
Biloxi Foreign Trade
Zone,
Products Company.
Inc.: 747.
Grantee: Delaware
Economic
99E
Motiva
Delaware City, DE. Doc. 41(29)-99
Development Office:
831.
Enterprises, LLC.
Grantee: Savannah
Airport
104C
Citgo Asphalt Savannah,
GA...... Doc. 41(30)-99
Commission:
805.
Refining Co.
Grantee: Foreign Trade Zone
of
Southeast Texas,
Inc.:
780........................
115B
Mobil Corporation. Beaumont, TX...... Doc.
41(31)-99
740........................
116A
Motiva
Port Arthur, TX... Doc. 41(32)-99
Enterprises, LLC.
772........................
116B
Fina Oil Company.. Port Arthur, TX... Doc.
41(33)-99
848........................
116C
Clark Refining & Port Arthur, TX...
Doc. 41(34)-99
Marketing Inc.
Grantee: Port of Corpus
Christi
Authority:
782........................
122A
Coastal Refining & Corpus Christi, TX Doc.
41(35)-99
Marketing, Inc.
765........................
122C
Trifinery
Corpus Christi, TX Doc. 41(36)-99
Petroleum.
407........................
122I
Citgo Refining & Corpus Christi, TX
Doc. 41(37)-99
Chemicals Co., LP.
414........................
122J
Valero Refining Corpus Christi, TX
Doc. 41(38)-99
Company.
535........................
122L
Koch Petroleum Corpus Christi,
TX Doc. 41(39)-99
Group.
1031.......................
122M
Diamond Shamrock Three Rivers, TX.. Doc.
41(40)-99
Refining Co., LP.
Grantee: South Louisiana
Port
Commission:
379........................
124A
Orion Refining Destrehan,
LA..... Doc. 41(41)-99
Corp.
739........................
124C
Motiva
Convent, LA....... Doc. 41(42)-99
Enterprises, LLC.
773........................
124E
Marathon Ashland Garyville, LA..... Doc.
41(43)-99
Petroleum, LP.
839........................
124F
Motiva
Norco, LA......... Doc. 41(44)-99
Enterprises, LLC.
Grantee: Port of
Philadelphia
and Camden, Inc.:
790........................
142A
Valero Refining Co Paulsboro, NJ..... Doc.
41(45)-99
806........................
142B
Citgo Asphalt Paulsboro,
NJ..... Doc. 41(46)-99
Refinery.
894........................
142C
Coastal Eagle Eagle Point,
NJ... Doc. 41(47)-99
Point Oil.
Grantee: Bi-State
Authority:
146D
Marathon Ashland Robinson, Il...... Doc.
41(48)-99
781.
Petroleum, LLC.
Grantee: Port Freeport
Brazos
River Harbor
Navigation
District:
920........................
149C
Phillips Petroleum Sweeney, TX....... Doc.
41(49)-99
Co.
999........................
149E BP
Amoco Chemical, Brazoria Co., TX.. Doc.
41(50)-99
plc.
Grantee: Indiana
Port
152B BP
Amoco, plc..... Whiting, IN....... Doc.
41(51)-99
Commission: 762.
Grantee: Greater Baton
Rouge
154A
Exxon Corporation. Baton Rouge, LA... Doc.
41(52)-99
Port Commission:
847.
Grantee: Board of
County
161B
Equilon
El Dorado, KS..... Doc. 41(53)-99
Commissioners of
Sedgwick
Enterprises, LLC.
County, Kansas:
862.
Grantee: Northeast Ohio
Trade
181A
Marathon Ashland Canton, OH........ Doc.
41(54)-99
and Economic Consortium:
864.
Petroleum, LLC.
Grantee: Texas City
Foreign
Trade Zone
Corporation:
731........................
199A BP
Amoco, plc..... Texas City, TX.... Doc.
41(55)-99
830........................
199B
Marathon Ashland Texas City, TX.... Doc.
41(56)-99
Petroleum, LLC.
863........................
199C
Valero Refining Co Texas City, TX.... Doc.
41(57)-99
Grantee: Port Of Los
Angeles:
202B
Chevron U.S.A. Inc El Segundo, CA.... Doc.
41(58)-99
959.
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Public
comment on the proposals 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 November 1,
1999.
Copies of
the requests will be available for public inspection at
the following location:
Office of the Executive Secretary, Foreign-
Trade Zones Board, U.S.
Department of Commerce, Room 3716, 14th &
Pennsylvania Avenue, NW,
Washington, DC 20230.
Dated:
August 24, 1999.
Dennis Puccinelli,
Acting Executive
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 99-22925 Filed
9-1-99; 8:45 am]
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