8422 Federal Register / Vol. 62, No. 37 / Tuesday, February 25, 1997 / Notices

2:00 pm–5:00 pm—Committee of the

Whole—State and Local Government

Facilities Final Rule (Closed Meeting)

Tuesday, March 11, 1997

9:00 am–noon and 1:30 pm–5:00 pm

ADAAG Revision—Discussion of

Issues (Closed Meeting)

Wednesday, March 12, 1997

9:00 am–10:30 am—Briefing on Play

Facilities Regulatory Negotiation

(Closed Meeting)

10:30 am–noon—Planning and Budget

Committee

1:30 pm–3:30 pm—Board Meeting.

ADDRESSES: The meetings will be held

at: Embassy Suites Hotel, 1250 22nd

Street, N.W., Washington, D.C.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For

further information regarding the

meetings, please contact Lawrence W.

Roffee, Executive Director, (202) 272–

5434 ext. 14 (voice) and (202) 272–5449

(TTY).

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: At the

Board meeting, the Access Board will

consider the following agenda items:

Open Meeting

• Approval of the Minutes of the

January 15, 1997 and November 13,

1996 Board Meetings.

• Ad Hoc Committee on Bylaws and

Statutory Review Report.

• Planning and Budget Committee

Report.

Closed Meeting

• Proposed Rule for Access to

Telecommunications Equipment.

• Committee on the Whole Report—

State and Local Government Facilities

Final Rule.

• ADAAG Revision.

• Play Facilities Regulatory

Negotiation.

All meetings are accessible to persons

with disabilities. Sign language

interpreters and an assistive listening

system are available at all meetings.

Lawrence W. Roffee,

Executive Director.

[FR Doc. 97–4638 Filed 2–24–97; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 8150–01–P

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 specialpurpose 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¢/

barrel to 10.5¢/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]

BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Docket 7–97]

Foreign-Trade Zone 15; Kansas City,

Missouri Area Application for

Expansion

An application has been submitted to

the Foreign-Trade Zones Board (the

Board) by the Greater Kansas City

Foreign Trade Zone, Inc., grantee of

Foreign-Trade Zone 15, requesting

authority to expand its zone in the

Kansas City, Missouri area, adjacent to

the Springfield, Missouri, 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 February 11, 1997.

FTZ 15 was approved on March 23,

1973 (Board Order 93, 38 FR 8622, 4/4/

73) and expanded on October 25, 1974

(Board Order 102, 39 FR 39487, 11/7/

74); February 28, 1996 (Board Order

804, 61 FR 9676, 3/11/96); and, May 31,

1996 (Board Order 824, 61 FR 29529, 6/

11/96). The zone project includes 4

general-purpose sites in the Kansas City,

Missouri, port of entry area: Site 1

(250,000 sq. ft.)—Midland International