DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Foreign-Trade Zones Board
[Docket 8-97]
Foreign-Trade Zone 82; Mobile, Alabama; Application for Subzone
Status Coastal Mobile Refining Company (Oil Refinery Complex) Mobile
County, Alabama
An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones Board
(the Board) by the City of Mobile, Alabama, grantee of FTZ 82,
requesting special-purpose subzone status for the oil refinery complex
of Coastal Mobile Refining Company (wholly-owned subsidiary of Coastal
Corporation), located in Mobile County, Alabama. 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 February 12, 1997.
The refinery complex (45 acres, 41 employees) consists of 3 sites
and connecting pipelines in Mobile County, Alabama: Site 1 (10 acres)--
main refinery complex (15,000 BPD), located on Chickasaw Creek at 200
Viaduct Road, some 2 miles north of Mobile; Site 2 (17 acres)--North
Terminal storage facility (290,000 barrel capacity), located on
Chickasaw Creek, 1 mile north of the refinery; and Site 3 (18 acres)--
three storage tanks (450,000 barrel capacity) at Blakely Island
Terminal, located on the Mobile River, some 7 miles south of the
refinery.
The refinery produces fuels and petrochemical feedstocks. Fuels
produced include gasoline, jet fuel, kerosene, distillates and residual
fuels. Petrochemical feedstocks and refinery byproducts 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 byproducts (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
April 28, 1997. Rebuttal comments in response to material submitted
during the foregoing period may be submitted during the subsequent 15-
day period (to May 12, 1997).
A copy of the application and accompanying exhibits will be
available for public inspection at each of the following locations:
U.S. Customs Service Port Director's Office, Suite 3400, 150 N. Royal
Street, Mobile, Alabama 36602
Office of the Executive Secretary, Foreign-Trade Zones Board, Room
3716, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th & Pennsylvania Avenue, NW,
Washington, DC 20230
Dated: February 18, 1997.
John J. Da Ponte, Jr.,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 97-4507 Filed 2-24-97; 8:45 am]
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Foreign-Trade Zones Board
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Applications, hearings, determinations, etc.:
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Coastal Mobile Refinery Co.; oil refinery complex, 8422