DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Foreign-Trade Zones Board
[Docket No. 49-87]
53 FR 783
January 13, 1988
Foreign-Trade Zone 9, Honolulu, HI; Application for Subzone Chevron Oil
Refinery
TEXT: An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones Board
(the Board) by the Hawaii State Department of Business and Economic
Development, grantee of FTZ 9, requesting special-purpose subzone status for
the oil refinery of Chevron U.S.A., Inc., located in Ewa, Oahu, Hawaii,
adjacent to the Honolulu 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 Part
400). It was formally filed on December 30, 1987.
The 50,000 BPD refinery (248 acres) is located on Malakole Road, within
the James Campbell Industrial Park, Ewa, Oahu. The facility employs 180
persons and is used to produce gasoline, fuel oil, jet fuel, diesel,
petroleum gases and asphalt. Some 66 percent of the refinery inputs are
sourced abroad, including crude oil and feedstock. Some products, such as
jet fuel, are exported.
Zone procedures would exempt the refinery from Customs payments on the
foreign products used in its exports. On its domestic sales, the company is
seeking to avoid duties on fuel used in the refinery and to defer duties
until products leave the refinery. On some products, such as asphalt and
certain gases, the company would be able to elect the duty rate available
to importers of these products. (The current rate is zero. The duty on
crude oil ranges from 5 1/4 to 10 1/2 cents/barrel.) The applicant indicates
that zone procedures will help the company's international competitiveness.
In accordance with the Board's 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;
George Roberts, District Director, U.S. Customs Service, Pacific Region,
P.O. Box 1641, Honolulu, HI 96806; and Colonel F.W. Wanner, District
Engineer, U.S. Army Engineer District Honolulu, Building 230, Ft. Shaffer,
HI 96858.
Comments concerning the proposed subzone 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 February 21,
1988.
A copy of the application is available for public inspection at each of
the following locations:
U.S. Dept. of Commerce District Office,
P.O. Box 50026, 4106 Federal Bldg.,
300 Ala Moana Blvd.,
Honolulu, HI 96813
Office of the Executive Secretary,
Foreign-Trade Zones Board,
U.S. Department of Commerce, Room 1529,
14th & Constitution Avenue NW.,
Washington, DC 20230.
Dated: December 30, 1987.
John J. Da Ponte, Jr.,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 88-528 Filed 1-12-88; 8:45 am]
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