[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 91 (Wednesday, May 10, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 30057-30058]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-11738]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Docket 16-2000]


Foreign-Trade Zone 3--San Francisco, California Area; Application 
for Expansion

    An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones (FTZ) 
Board (the Board) by the San Francisco Port Commission, grantee of 
Foreign-Trade Zone 3, requesting authority to expand its zone to 
include the San Francisco International Airport fuel system and related 
facilities, within the San Francisco Customs port of entry. 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 April 28, 2000.
    FTZ 3 was approved on March 10, 1948 (Board Order 16, 13 F.R. 1459, 
3/19/48). The zone project currently consists of 225,000 square feet at 
Piers 19 and 23 on the Embarcadero in San Francisco.
    The applicant is now requesting authority to expand the general-
purpose zone to include the jet fuel storage and distribution system 
(261 acres) at the San Francisco International Airport, which consists 
of the airport hydrant and storage facilities, two adjacent off-Airport 
terminals, a pipeline and two offsite terminals, as follows: Proposed 
Site 2: the jet fuel storage and delivery facilities at the San 
Francisco International Airport; the Chevron jet fuel tank farm (8.5 
acres), the PS Trading tank farm (1 acre) and related pipelines between 
the tanks farms; jet fuel transmission pipelines and the terminal and 
cargo area hydrant pipelines; the petroleum and jet fuel storage 
facilities (26 acres) at the Brisbane Terminal (owned by SFPP, L.P.), 
950 Tunnel Avenue, Brisbane; and, the petroleum and jet fuel storage 
facilities (7 acres) at the Equilon Terminal (owned by Equilon 
Enterprises LLC), 135 North Access Road, South San Francisco, including 
the 4.7 mile segment of the SFPP jet fuel pipeline from the two 
terminals to the airport; Proposed Site 3: (55 acres) at the petroleum 
facilities of Selby Terminal (owned by Shore Terminals LLC), 90 San 
Pablo Avenue, Crockett; and, Proposed Site 4 (164 acres) at the 
petroleum facilities of Martinez Terminal (owned by Shore Terminals 
LLC), 2801 Waterfront Road, Martinez. The City of San Francisco owns 
fuel facilities at the airport and the land on which the Chevron tank 
farm and the PST tank farms are located (the companies own the 
improvements). In addition to the storage of jet fuel, the Brisbane, 
Equilon, Selby and Martinez Terminals may also be used for the receipt 
and storage of other petroleum products under zone procedures.
    No specific manufacturing requests are being made at this time. 
Such requests would be made to the Board on a case-by-case basis.
    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 on the application 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 July 10, 2000. Rebuttal comments in response to 
material submitted during the foregoing period may be submitted during 
the subsequent 15-day period (to July 24, 2000).
    A copy of the application and accompanying exhibits will be 
available for public inspection at each of the following locations:


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U.S. Department of Commerce, Export Assistance Center, 250 Montgomery 
Street, 14th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94104-3406
Office of the Executive Secretary, Foreign-Trade Zones Board, Room 
4008, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th & Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., 
Washington, DC 20230

    Dated: May 1, 2000.
Dennis Puccinelli,
Acting Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 00-11738 Filed 5-9-00; 8:45 am]
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