[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 113 (Tuesday, June 11, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Page 29530]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-14745]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
[Docket 49-96)
Foreign-Trade Zone 181--Akron-Canton, OH; Application for Subzone
Status Ashland Inc. (Oil Refinery Complex) Stark and Allen Counties, OH
An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones Board
(the Board) by the Akron-Canton Regional Airport Authority, grantee of
FTZ 181, requesting special-purpose subzone status for the oil refinery
complex of Ashland Inc., located at sites in Stark and Allen Counties,
Ohio. 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
June 4, 1996.
The refinery complex (227 employees) consists of 2 sites and
connecting pipelines in northern Ohio: Site 1 (160 acres)--main
refinery complex (73,000 BPD capacity) located at 2408 Gambrinus SW,
Stark County, 2 miles southwest of Canton; Site 2 (112 acres)--Ashland
Pipe Line Co. crude oil terminal (12 tanks with 1 million barrel
capacity) located at 575 Buckeye Road, Allen County, south of the city
of Lima. The refinery, terminal and pipelines operate as an integrated
refinery complex.
The refinery complex is used to produce fuels and petrochemical
feedstocks. Fuels produced include gasoline, jet fuel, distillates,
diesel fuel, fuel oil and kerosene. Petrochemical feedstocks and
refinery by-products include propane, propylene, sulfur and asphalt.
About 35 percent of the crude oil (96 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 by-products (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 inputs ranges
from 5.25 cents/barrel to 10.5 cents/barrel. Foreign merchandise would
also be exempt from state and local ad valorem taxes. 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
August 12, 1996. Rebuttal comments in response to material submitted
during the foregoing period may be submitted during the subsequent 15-
day period (to August 26, 1996).
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, Bank One Center,
Suite 700, 600 Superior Ave., East, Cleveland, Ohio 44114
Office of the Executive Secretary, Foreign-Trade Zones Board, Room
3716, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th & Pennsylvania Avenue, NW.,
Washington, DC 20230
Dated: June 4, 1996.
John J. Da Ponte, Jr.,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 96-14745 Filed 6-10-96; 8:45 am]
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