[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 239 (Tuesday, December 12, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Page 77560]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-31494]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Docket 67-2000]


Foreign-Trade Zone 115--Beaumont, Texas, Area; Application for 
Expansion

    An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones (FTZ) 
Board (the Board) by the Foreign-Trade Zone of Southeast Texas, Inc., 
grantee of Foreign-Trade Zone 115, requesting authority to expand its 
zone to include a petroleum terminal in Nederland (Jefferson County), 
Texas, within the U.S. Customs Service consolidated port of Port Arthur 
and Sabine. 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 
November 29, 2000.
    FTZ 115 was approved on March 20, 1985 (Board Order 296, 50 FR 
13261, 4/3/85). The zone project currently consists of seven sites (244 
acres) in Orange and Jefferson Counties.
    The applicant is now requesting authority to expand the general-
purpose zone to include Proposed Site 8 (952 acres)--at the Sun Pipe 
Line Company (Sun PLC) crude oil petroleum terminal located in 
Nederland, Texas. The site includes all of the facilities of Sun PLC's 
Nederland Terminal, including the buildings, marine berths, storage 
tanks, pipelines, manifolds, pumps, valves, filters, meters, etc. The 
terminal includes an 802-acre marine facility that provides storage for 
crude oil and certain refined petroleum products. The terminal also 
includes a 150-acre tank farm that provides for storage of crude oil. 
Several of the storage tanks at the proposed zone site already are 
covered by two existing FTZ subzone grants (Mobil Oil Corporation (FTZ-
115B) and Fina Oil & Chemical Company (FTZ-116-B)), and those tanks are 
excluded from this application. Sun PLC, the owner and anticipated 
operator of the proposed site, is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sunoco, 
Inc. The facilities will be primarily used to store and distribute 
crude oil for Sunoco affiliates, but the facilities will also be 
available for use by other petroleum companies that lease tanks from 
Sun PLC. Sun PLC (or Sunoco) will be the operator of the site.
    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 February 12, 2001. Rebuttal comments in response 
to material submitted during the foregoing period may be submitted 
during the subsequent 15-day period (to February 26, 2001).
    A copy of the application and accompanying exhibits will be 
available for public inspection at each of the following locations:
    Office of the Port of Beaumont, 1225 Main Street, Beaumont, Texas 
77701, Office of the Executive Secretary, Foreign-Trade Zones Board, 
Room 4008, U.S. Department of Commerce 14th & Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., 
Washington, DC 20230.

    Dated: November 30, 2000.
Dennis Puccinelli,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 00-31494 Filed 12-11-00; 8:45 am]
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