DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Foreign-Trade Zones Board
[Docket No. 20-86]
51 FR 23252
June 26, 1986
Foreign-Trade Zone 84, Harris County, TX (Houston POE); Amendment of Zone
Plan
TEXT: An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones Board
(the Board) by the Port of Houston Authority (PHA), grantee of Foreign-Trade
Zone 84, requesting an amendment to its zone plan to add a petroleum and
chemical storage and blending facility in Harris County, Texas, within the
Houston Customs port of entry. The application was submitted pursuant to
the provisions of the Foreign-Trade Zones Act, as amended (19 USC 81a-81u),
and the regulations of the Board (15 CFR 400). It was formally filed on
June 9, 1986.
PHA received authority from the Board to establish a multi-site foreign-
trade zone in Harris County, Texas, on July 15, 1983 (Board Order 214, 48
FR 34792, August 1, 1983. While 5 PHA sites were approved as conventional
ones, the remaining sites were approved for 5 years, subject to special
conditions. The zone plan was amended in 1985 to delete 8 and add 10
non-PHA sites subject to the same time limitation and conditions as the
original ones (Board Order 303, 50 FR 20252). This amendment would also be
subject to the same time limitation and conditions as the other non-PHA
sites.
The proposed amendment would involve adding to the zone the public
petroleum product and chemical storage terminal and blending facilities of
Intercontinental Terminals Company, located on a 125-acre parcel at Mile
Point 35.4 on the Houston Ship Channel in the Deer Park area. With a 4
million barrel capacity, the facility stores and blends industrial
chemicals, petrochemicals, motor fuels, and blendstocks. The company would
use zone procedures for motor fuel blending for export only.
In accordance with the regulations, an examiners committee has been
appointed to investigate the application and report to the Board. The
committee consists of: John J. Da Ponte, Jr. (Chairman), Director, Foreign-
Trade Zones Staff, U.S. Department of Commerce, Washington, DC 20230;
Donald Gough, Deputy Assistant Regional Commissioner, U.S. Customs Service,
Southwest Region, 5850 San Felipe Street, Houston, TX 77057; and Colonel
Gordon M. Clarke, District Engineer, U.S. Army Engineer District Galveston,
P.O. Box 1229, Galveston, TX 77553.
Comments concerning the proposed amendment of the zone plan are invited
in writing from interested parties. They should be addressed to the Board's
Executive Secretary at the address below and postmarked on or before July
29, 1986.
A copy of the application is available for public inspection at each of
the following locations:
U.S. Dept. of Commerce District Office,
2625 Federal Courthouse,
515 Rusk Street,
Houston, TX 77002
Office of the Executive Secretary,
Foreign-Trade Zones Board,
U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Room 1529,
14th and Pennsylvania, NW.,
Washington, DC 20230
Dated: June 20, 1986.
John J. Da Ponte, Jr.,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 86-14484 Filed 6-25-86; 8:45 am]
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