[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 28 (Thursday, February 11, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Page 6877]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-3416]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Foreign-Trade Zones Board
[Docket 5-99]
Foreign-Trade Zone 22, Chicago, Illinois Application for Subzone;
Clark Refining & Marketing, Inc. (Oil Refinery Complex) Cook County, IL
An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones Board
(the Board) by the Illinois International Port District, grantee of FTZ
22, requesting special-purpose subzone status for the oil refinery
complex of Clark Refining & Marketing, Inc., located in Cook County,
Illinois (Chicago 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 February 1, 1999.
The refinery complex (165 acres) is located at three sites in Cook
County, Illinois (Chicago area): Site 1 (85,000 BPD capacity, 120
acres)--main refinery complex, located at 131st and Kedzie Avenue on
the Calumet Sag Canal, Blue Island; Site 2 (45 acres)--crude oil tank
farm (7 tanks, 431,290 barrel capacity), located at 131st and Homan,
\1/4\ mile northwest of the refinery and Site 3 (5 tanks, 170,000
barrel capacity)--leased from the Texas Eastern Product Pipeline
Company storage facility located at 3645 West 131st Street, Alsip, \1/
4\ mile west of the refinery.
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.
About half of the crude oil (95 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, 55 West Monroe
Street, Suite 2440, Chicago, Illinois 60603
Office of the Executive Secretary, Foreign-Trade Zones Board, Room
3716, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th & Pennsylvania Avenue, NW,
Washington, DC 20230
Dated: February 2, 1999.
Dennis Puccinelli,
Acting Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 99-3416 Filed 2-10-99; 8:45 am]
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