[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 28 (Thursday, February 11, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 6876-6877]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-3415]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Foreign-Trade Zones Board
[Docket 4-99]
Foreign-Trade Zone 31, Granite City, Illinois Application for
Subzone; Clark Refining & Marketing, Inc. (Oil Refinery Complex)
Hartford, Illinois
An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones Board
(the Board) by the Tri-City Regional Port District, grantee of FTZ 31,
requesting special-purpose subzone status for the oil refinery complex
of Clark Refining & Marketing, Inc., located in Hartford, Illinois. 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 February 1, 1999.
The refinery complex (400 acres) is located at two sites in
Hartford, Illinois (Madison County), some 15 miles northeast of St.
Louis, Missouri: Site 1 (65,000 BPD capacity, 240 acres)'main refinery
complex and storage facility (72 tanks, 2 million barrel capacity),
located at 201 E. Hawthorne; Site 2 (160 acres)--river dock and three
connecting pipelines, located west of the refinery on the Mississippi
River.
The refinery (300 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,
ethylene, butane, butylene, butadiene, liquified natural gas, benzene,
toluene, xylene, carbon black oil, petroleum coke, sulfur and asphalt.
Some 75 to 80 percent of the crude oil (90 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
April 12, 1999. Rebuttal comments in response to material submitted
during the foregoing period may be submitted during the subsequent 15-
day period to April 27, 1999.
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, 8182 Maryland
Avenue, Suite 303, St. Louis, Missouri 63105
Office of the Executive Secretary, Foreign-Trade Zones Board, Room
3716, U.S. Department of Commerce,
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14th & Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20230
Dated: February 2, 1999.
Dennis Puccinelli,
Acting Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 99-3415 Filed 2-10-99; 8:45 am]
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