97-4507. Foreign-Trade Zone 82; Mobile, Alabama; Application for Subzone Status Coastal Mobile Refining Company (Oil Refinery Complex) Mobile County, Alabama  

  • [Federal Register Volume 62, Number 37 (Tuesday, February 25, 1997)]
    [Notices]
    [Page 8422]
    From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
    [FR Doc No: 97-4507]
    
    
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    DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
    
    Foreign-Trade Zones Board
    [Docket 8-97]
    
    
    Foreign-Trade Zone 82; Mobile, Alabama; Application for Subzone 
    Status Coastal Mobile Refining Company (Oil Refinery Complex) Mobile 
    County, Alabama
    
        An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones Board 
    (the Board) by the City of Mobile, Alabama, grantee of FTZ 82, 
    requesting special-purpose subzone status for the oil refinery complex 
    of Coastal Mobile Refining Company (wholly-owned subsidiary of Coastal 
    Corporation), located in Mobile County, Alabama. 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 12, 1997.
        The refinery complex (45 acres, 41 employees) consists of 3 sites 
    and connecting pipelines in Mobile County, Alabama: Site 1 (10 acres)--
    main refinery complex (15,000 BPD), located on Chickasaw Creek at 200 
    Viaduct Road, some 2 miles north of Mobile; Site 2 (17 acres)--North 
    Terminal storage facility (290,000 barrel capacity), located on 
    Chickasaw Creek, 1 mile north of the refinery; and Site 3 (18 acres)--
    three storage tanks (450,000 barrel capacity) at Blakely Island 
    Terminal, located on the Mobile River, some 7 miles south of the 
    refinery.
        The refinery produces fuels and petrochemical feedstocks. Fuels 
    produced include gasoline, jet fuel, kerosene, distillates and residual 
    fuels. Petrochemical feedstocks and refinery byproducts include butane, 
    propane, benzene, toluene, xylene, propylene, cumene, sulfur, petroleum 
    coke and asphalt. All of the crude oil (85 percent of inputs) and some 
    feedstocks and motor fuel blendstocks used in producing fuel products 
    are sourced abroad.
        Zone procedures would exempt the operations involved 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 byproducts (duty-free) instead of the duty 
    rates that would otherwise apply to the foreign-sourced inputs (e.g., 
    crude oil, natural gas condensate). 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 Board's Executive 
    Secretary at the address below. The closing period for their receipt is 
    April 28, 1997. Rebuttal comments in response to material submitted 
    during the foregoing period may be submitted during the subsequent 15-
    day period (to May 12, 1997).
        A copy of the application and accompanying exhibits will be 
    available for public inspection at each of the following locations:
    
    U.S. Customs Service Port Director's Office, Suite 3400, 150 N. Royal 
    Street, Mobile, Alabama 36602
    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 18, 1997.
    John J. Da Ponte, Jr.,
    Executive Secretary.
    [FR Doc. 97-4507 Filed 2-24-97; 8:45 am]
    BILLING CODE 3510-DS-P
    
    
    

Document Information

Published:
02/25/1997
Department:
Commerce Department
Entry Type:
Notice
Document Number:
97-4507
Pages:
8422-8422 (1 pages)
Docket Numbers:
Docket 8-97
PDF File:
97-4507.pdf