[Federal Register: September 29, 2005 (Volume 70, Number 188)]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

Docket 44-2005

Foreign-Trade Zone 70 -- Detroit, Michigan, Expansion of
Manufacturing Authority -- Subzone 70T, Marathon Petroleum Company LLC,
Detroit, Michigan

    An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones (FTZ)
Board (the Board) by the Greater Detroit Foreign Trade Zone, Inc.,
grantee of FTZ 70, requesting authority on behalf of Marathon Petroleum
Company LLC (Marathon), to expand the scope of manufacturing activity
conducted under zone procedures within Subzone 70T at the Marathon oil
refinery complex in Wayne County (Detroit area), Michigan. The
application was submitted pursuant to 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 September 19, 2005.
    Subzone 70T (246 acres, 400 - 500 employees) consists of 4 sites
and connecting pipelines in Wayne County (Detroit area), Michigan: Site
1 (183 acres)--main refinery complex (75,000 BPD) located at 1300 South
Fort Street on the Detroit River, Detroit and Melvindale ; Site 2 (15
acres)--asphalt storage facility located at 301 South Fort Street on
the Rouge River, 1 mile east of the refinery, Detroit; Site 3 (4

acres)--finished product storage facility, located on Fordson Island in
the Rouge River, 2 miles northeast of the refinery, Dearborn, and; Site
4 (44 acres)--underground LPG storage cavern, located at 24400 Allen
Road, 12 miles south of the refinery, Woodhaven. The expansion request
involves the modification to a crude unit that would increase the
overall crude distillation capacity to 105,000 BPD. No additional
feedstocks or products have been requested.
    Zone procedures would exempt the increased production from Customs
duty payments on the foreign products used in its exports. On domestic
sales of the increased production, the company would be able to choose
the finished product duty rate on certain petrochemical feedstocks and
refinery by-products (duty-free) by admitting foreign crude oil in non-
privileged foreign status. 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 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 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, D.C. 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, D.C. 20230.
    The closing period for their receipt is November 28, 2005. Rebuttal
comments in response to material submitted during the foregoing period
may be submitted during the subsequent 15-day period (to December 13,
2005).
    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 address Number 1 listed above, and
at the U.S. Department of Commerce Export Assistance Center, 211 West
Fort Street, Suite 2220, Detroit, MI 48226.

    Dated: September 22, 2005.
Dennis Puccinelli,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 05-19505 Filed 9-28-05; 8:45 am]
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