[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 197 (Tuesday, October 13, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Page 54671]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-27050]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Foreign-Trade Zones Board
[Docket 46-98]
Foreign-Trade Zone 50, Long Beach, CA; Proposed Foreign-Trade
Subzone Equilon Enterprises LLC (Oil Refinery Complex), Los Angeles
County, CA, Area
An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones Board
(the Board) by the Board of Harbor Commissioners of the City of Long
Beach, grantee of FTZ 50, requesting special-purpose subzone status for
the oil refinery complex of Equilon Enterprises LLC (a joint-venture
between Texaco, Inc. and Shell Oil Company), located in the Los Angeles
County, California, area. 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 September 30, 1998.
The refinery complex (308 acres) is located at two sites in the Los
Angeles County, California, area: Site 1 (100,000 BPD capacity, 300
acres)--main refinery complex, located at 2101 E. Pacific Coast
Highway, City of Los Angeles, some 25 miles south of downtown; Site 2
(8 acres)--sulfur recovery unit, located at 23208 S. Alameda Street,
Carson, 2 miles north of the refinery.
The refinery (500 employees) is used to produce fuels and
petrochemical feedstocks. Fuel products include gasoline, jet fuel,
distillates, residual fuels, and motor fuel blendstocks. Petrochemical
feedstocks and refinery by-products include propane, propylene, butane,
butylene, petroleum coke, sulfur and asphalt. Some 20 to 30 percent of
the crude oil (93 percent of inputs) and some 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 Customs duty rates that
apply to certain petrochemical feedstocks and refinery by-products
(duty-free) by admitting incoming foreign crude oil and natural gas
condensate in non-privileged foreign status. The duty rates on inputs
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 Board's Executive
Secretary at the address below. The closing period for their receipt is
December 14, 1998. Rebuttal comments in response to material submitted
during the foregoing period may be submitted during the subsequent 15-
day period (to December 22, 1998).
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, 11000 Wilshire
Blvd., Room 9200, Los Angeles, California 90024
Office of the Executive Secretary, Foreign-Trade Zones Board, Room
3716, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th & Pennsylvania Avenue, NW,
Washington, DC 20230
Dated: October 1, 1998.
Dennis Puccinelli,
Acting Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 98-27050 Filed 10-9-98; 8:45 am]
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