96-17678. Foreign-Trade Zone 2, New Orleans, Louisiana; Proposed Foreign- Trade Subzone; Murphy Oil USA, Inc. (Oil Refinery Complex), St. Bernard Parish, LA  

  • [Federal Register Volume 61, Number 134 (Thursday, July 11, 1996)]
    [Notices]
    [Pages 36550-36551]
    From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
    [FR Doc No: 96-17678]
    
    
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    DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
    
    Foreign-Trade Zones Board
    [Docket 55-96]
    
    
    Foreign-Trade Zone 2, New Orleans, Louisiana; Proposed Foreign-
    Trade Subzone; Murphy Oil USA, Inc. (Oil Refinery Complex), St. Bernard 
    Parish, LA
    
        An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones Board 
    (the Board) by the Board of Commissioners of the Port of New Orleans, 
    grantee of FTZ 2, requesting special-purpose subzone status for the oil 
    refinery complex of Murphy Oil USA, Inc., located in St. Bernard 
    Parish, Louisiana. 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 July 1, 1996.
    
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        The refinery complex (105,000 BPD, 242 employees) is located on a 
    620-acre site at 2500 E. St. Bernard Highway on the Mississippi River, 
    St. Bernard Parish (Meraux area), Louisiana, some 7 miles southeast of 
    New Orleans.
        The refinery is used to produce fuels and petrochemical feedstocks. 
    Fuels produced include gasoline, jet fuel, distillates, residual fuels 
    and naphthas. Petrochemical feedstocks and refinery by-products include 
    methane, ethane, propane, propylene, butane, petroleum coke, asphalt 
    and sulfur. Some 92 percent of the crude oil (96 percent of inputs), 
    and some feedstocks and 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 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 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 
    [60 days from date of publication]. Rebuttal comments in response to 
    material submitted during the foregoing period may be submitted during 
    the subsequent 15-day period (to September 24, 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, Hale Boggs 
    Federal Building, 501 Magazine Street, Room 1043, New Orleans, 
    Louisiana 70130
    Office of the Executive Secretary, Foreign-Trade Zones Board, Room 
    3716, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th & Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., 
    Washington, DC 20230
    
        Dated: July 2, 1996.
    Dennis Puccinelli,
    Acting Executive Secretary.
    [FR Doc. 96-17678 Filed 7-10-96; 8:45 am]
    BILLING CODE 3510-DS-P
    
    
    

Document Information

Published:
07/11/1996
Department:
Commerce Department
Entry Type:
Notice
Document Number:
96-17678
Pages:
36550-36551 (2 pages)
Docket Numbers:
Docket 55-96
PDF File:
96-17678.pdf