[Federal Register: March 19, 2003 (Volume 68, Number 53)]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Docket 15-2003]

Foreign-Trade Zone 92--Harrison County, Mississippi, Expansion of
Manufacturing Authority--Subzone 92D, Chevron Products Company,
Pascagoula, MS

    An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones Board
(the Board) by the Mississippi Coast Foreign-Trade Zone, Inc., grantee
of FTZ 92, requesting authority on behalf of Chevron Products Company
(Chevron), to expand the scope of manufacturing activity conducted
under zone procedures within Subzone 92D at the Chevron oil refinery
complex in Pascagoula, Mississippi. 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 March 11, 2003.
    Subzone 92D (3,100 acres, 1,200 employees) was approved by the
Board in 1995 and is located on the Mississippi Sound, east of
Pascagoula, some 35 miles east of Gulfport, in Jackson County,
Mississippi. Authority was granted for the manufacture of fuel products
and certain petrochemical feedstocks and refinery by-products (Board
Order 747, 60 FR 32503, June 22, 1995, as amended by Board Order 1116,
65 FR 52696, August 30, 2000).

    The refinery (310,000 barrels per day) is used to produce fuels and
petrochemical feedstocks. The expansion request involves several
modified and upgraded processing units. The reconfigured facilities
will increase the overall capacity of the refinery to 360,000 BPD. The
feedstocks used and product slate will remain unchanged. Some 95
percent of the crude oil will be sourced from abroad.
    Zone procedures would exempt the new refinery facilities from
Customs duty payments on the foreign products used in its exports. Some
15 percent of the plant's shipments are 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 one of the following addresses:
    1. Submissions Via Express/Package Delivery Services: Foreign-Trade
Zones Board, U.S. Department of Commerce, Franklin Court Building--
Suite 4100W, 1099 14th St. NW., Washington, DC 20005; or
    2. Submissions Via the U.S. Postal Service: Foreign-Trade Zones
Board, U.S. Department of Commerce, FCB--Suite 4100W, 1401 Constitution
Ave. NW., Washington, DC 20230. The closing period for their receipt is
May 19, 2003. Rebuttal comments in response to material submitted
during the foregoing period may be submitted during the subsequent 15-
day period (to June 2, 2003).
    A copy of the application and accompanying exhibits will be
available for public inspection at the Office of the Foreign-Trade
Zones Board's Executive Secretary at the first address listed above,
and at the Bureau of Customs and Border Protection, 535 Delmas Avenue,

Suite 2, Pascagoula, MS 39567.

    Dated: March 11, 2003.
Dennis Puccinelli,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 03-6483 Filed 3-18-03; 8:45 am]
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