[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 74 (Thursday, April 17, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 18739-18740]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-9970]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Foreign-Trade Zones Board
[Docket 27-97]
Foreign-Trade Zone 22, Chicago, Illinois; Proposed Foreign-Trade
Subzone; Mobil Oil Corporation (Oil Refinery Complex), Will County,
Illinois
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 Mobil Oil Corporation, located in Will County, 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 April 7, 1997.
The refinery complex (1,294 acres, 550 employees) consists of 2
sites in
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Will County, Illinois: Site 1 (1,200 acres)--refinery complex located
at I-55 and Arsenal Road, on the Des Plaines River, 8 miles south of
Joliet, some 50 miles southwest of Chicago; Site 2 (94 acres)--Mokena
storage facility (780,000 barrel capacity) located at 183rd St and Wolf
Road, some 25 miles southwest of Chicago. The refinery (210,000 BPD) is
used to produce fuels and petrochemical feedstocks. Fuel products
include include gasoline, jet fuel, distillates, residual fuels,
naphthas and motor fuel blendstocks. Petrochemical feedstocks and
refinery by-products include methane, ethane, propane, propylene,
butane, butadiene, benzene, toluene, xylene, petroleum coke, carbon
black oil and sulfur. Some 3.6 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
June 16, 1997. Rebuttal comments in response to material submitted
during the foregoing period may be submitted during the subsequent 15-
day period (to July 1, 1997).
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 and Pennsylvania Avenue, NW.,
Washington, DC 20230
Dated: April 9, 1997.
John J. Da Ponte, Jr.,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 97-9970 Filed 4-16-97; 8:45 am]
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