[Federal Register: July 30, 1996 (Volume 61, Number 147)]
[Notices]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board
[Docket 60-96]

Foreign-Trade Zone 61, San Juan, Puerto Rico Proposed Foreign-
Trade Subzone, Puerto Rico Sun Oil Company, (Oil Refinery Complex),
Yabucoa, Puerto Rico

    An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones Board
(the Board) by the Commercial and Farm Credit and Development
Corporation of Puerto Rico, grantee of FTZ 61, requesting special-
purpose subzone status for the oil refinery complex of Puerto Rico Sun
Oil Company (wholly-owned subsidiary of Sun Company, Inc.), located in
Yabucoa, Puerto Rico. 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 19, 1996.
    The refinery complex (85,000 BPD, 340 employees) is located on a
241-acre site at Route 901, Km. 2.7 and Yabucoa Harbor, Yabucoa, Puerto
Rico, some 45 miles southeast of San Juan.
    The refinery is used to produce fuel products and petrochemical
feedstocks. Fuel products include gasoline, jet fuel, kerosene,
distillates, residual fuels, naphthas, intermediate gasoline
feedstocks, and lubricating base oils. Petrochemical feedstocks and
refinery by-products that are or could be produced at the refinery

include benzene, toluene, xylene, ethylene, propylene, cumene, carbon
black oil, ethane, propane, butane, petroleum coke, paraffin waxes,
petroleum extracts, asphalt and sulfur. All of the crude oil (90
percent of inputs) and some feedstocks and motor fuel blendstocks are
sourced abroad.
    Zone procedures would exempt the refinery from Customs duty
payments on the foreign products used in its exports. On domestic
sales, the company would be able to choose the finished product duty
rate (nonprivileged foreign status--NPF) on certain petrochemical
feedstocks and refinery by-products (duty-free) instead of the duty
rates that would otherwise apply to the foreign-sourced crude oil. The
duty rates on crude oil range from 5.25 cents/barrel to 10.5 cents/
barrel. The application indicates that the savings from zone procedures
would help improve the refinery's international competitiveness.
    In accordance with the Board's regulations, a member of the FTZ
Staff has been 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

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Board's Executive Secretary at the address below. The closing period
for their receipt is September 30, 1996. Rebuttal comments in response
to material submitted during the foregoing period may be submitted
during the subsequent 15-day period (to October 15, 1996).
    A copy of the application and accompanying exhibits will be
available for public inspection at each of the following locations:

U.S. Department of Commerce Export Assistance Center, Room G-55,
Federal Building, Chardon Avenue, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00918
Office of the Executive Secretary, Foreign-Trade Zones Board, Room
3716, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th & Pennsylvania Avenue, NW.,
Washington, DC 20230

    Dated: July 22,1996.
John J. Da Ponte, Jr.,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 96-19341 Filed 7-29-96; 8:45 am]
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