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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Foreign-Trade Zones Board
[DOCKET 25-97]
Foreign-Trade Zone 202, Los Angeles, CA; Proposed Foreign-Trade
Subzone, Chevron U.S.A. Inc. (Oil Refinery Complex) El Segundo, CA
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 Chevron U.S.A. Inc., located in El Segundo,
California. 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
March 31, 1997.
The refinery complex (256,000 BPD, 1,200 employees) is located on a
1,000-acre site at 324 W. El Segundo Boulevard, in El Segundo (Los
Angeles County), California, some 19 miles south of Los Angeles. The
refinery 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 19 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
June 9, 1997. Rebuttal comments in response to material submitted
during the foregoing period may be submitted during the subsequent 15-
day period to June 24, 1997.
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: April 2, 1997.
John J. Da Ponte, Jr.,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 97-9263 Filed 4-9-97; 8:45 am]
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