[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 136 (Thursday, July 16, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Page 38368]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-18880]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Foreign-Trade Zones Board
[Docket 37-98]
Foreign-Trade Zone 202, Los Angeles, CA; Proposed Foreign-Trade
Subzone, Tosco Refining Company (Oil Refinery Complex); Los Angeles, CA
Area
An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones Board
(the Board) by the Los Angeles Board of Harbor Commissioners, grantee
of FTZ 202, requesting special-purpose subzone status for the oil
refinery complex of Tosco Refining Company, located in the Los Angeles,
California, 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 July 8, 1998.
The refinery complex (727 acres) is located at 4 sites in the Los
Angeles, area (Los Angeles County), California: Site 1 (118,750 BPD
capacity, 425 acres)--main refinery complex, located at 1660 West
Anaheim Street, some 25 miles south of downtown Los Angeles; Site 2 (96
tanks, 3.3 mil. barrel capacity, 235 acres)--storage facility used for
crude oil and intermediate feedstocks, located at 1520 East Sepulveda
Blvd., 5 miles northeast of the refinery; Site 3 (26 tanks, 840,000
barrel capacity, 17 acres)--located within FTZ 202, Site 1, Los Angeles
Harbor Marine Terminal at Berths 148, 149, 150, 151, 1 mile southeast
of the refinery; Site 4 (24 tanks, 2.1 million barrel capacity, 50
acres)--Torrance Tank Farm used for crude oil and finished product
storage, located at 2650 West Lomita Blvd., approx. 4 miles northwest
of the refinery.
The refinery (575 employees) is used to produce fuels and
petrochemical feedstocks. Fuel products include gasoline, jet fuel,
distillates, residual fuels, naphthas and motor fuel blendstocks.
Petrochemical feedstocks and refinery by-products include methane,
ethane, propane, propylene, butane, petroleum coke and sulfur. Some 10
percent of the crude oil (92 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
September 14, 1998.
Rebuttal comments in response to material submitted during the
foregoing period may be submitted during the subsequent 15-day period
to September 29, 1998.
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, 11000 Wilshire
Blvd., Room 9200, Los Angeles, California 90024
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 9, 1998.
Dennis Puccinelli,
Acting Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 98-18880 Filed 7-15-98; 8:45 am]
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