96-17280. Foreign-Trade Zone 142Camden, New Jersey Application for Subzone Status Coastal Eagle Point Oil Company (Oil Refinery Complex) Westville, New Jersey  

  • [Federal Register Volume 61, Number 131 (Monday, July 8, 1996)]
    [Notices]
    [Pages 35710-35711]
    From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
    [FR Doc No: 96-17280]
    
    
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    DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
    Foreign-Trade Zones Board
    [Docket 54-96]
    
    
    Foreign-Trade Zone 142--Camden, New Jersey Application for 
    Subzone Status Coastal Eagle Point Oil Company (Oil Refinery Complex) 
    Westville, New Jersey
    
        An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones Board 
    (the Board) by the South Jersey Port Commission, grantee of FTZ 142,
    
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    requesting special-purpose subzone status for the oil refinery complex 
    of Coastal Eagle Point Oil Company (wholly-owned subsidiary of Coastal 
    Corporation), located in Gloucester County (Westville area), New 
    Jersey. 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 25, 1996.
        The refinery complex (130,000 BPD, 377 employees) is located at a 
    1,000-acre site on the Delaware River at U.S. Route 130 South, 
    Gloucester County (Westville area), New Jersey, some 10 miles south of 
    Philadelphia.
        The refinery produces fuels and petrochemical feedstocks. Fuels 
    produced include gasoline, jet fuel, kerosene, distillates and residual 
    fuels. Petrochemical feedstocks and refinery by-products 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 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 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 
    September 6, 1996. Rebuttal comments in response to material submitted 
    during the foregoing period may be submitted during the subsequent 15-
    day period (to Septmeber 23, 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, Bldg. #6, Suite 
    100, 3131 Princeton Pike, Trenton, New Jersey 08648.
    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 27, 1996.
    John J. Da Ponte, Jr.,
    Executive Secretary.
    [FR Doc. 96-17280 Filed 7-5-96; 8:45 am]
    BILLING CODE 3510-DS-P
    
    
    

Document Information

Published:
07/08/1996
Department:
Commerce Department
Entry Type:
Notice
Document Number:
96-17280
Pages:
35710-35711 (2 pages)
Docket Numbers:
Docket 54-96
PDF File:
96-17280.pdf