15462 Federal Register / Vol. 62, No. 62 / Tuesday, April 1, 1997 / Notices

[Docket 20–97]

Foreign-Trade Zone 199; Texas City,

Texas; Application for Subzone Status,

Seaway Pipeline Company (Crude Oil

Terminal), Texas City, TX

An application has been submitted to

the Foreign-Trade Zones Board (the

Board) by the Texas City Foreign Trade

Zone Corporation, grantee of FTZ 199,

requesting special-purpose subzone

status for the crude oil distribution

terminal of Seaway Pipeline Company

(Seaway) (general partnership between

wholly-owned subsidiaries of ARCO

Pipe Line Company (APL) and Phillips

Petroleum Company), located in Texas

City, Texas. 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 19,

1997.

The Seaway facilities (115 acres)

consist of three sites in Texas City

(Galveston County), Texas: Site 1: (14

acres)—marine terminal located at 801

Dock Road, on the Texas City Channel

of Galveston Bay, 2 miles southeast of

Texas City; Site 2: (4 tanks/2.1 million

barrel capacity on 98 acres)—tank farm

located at Loop 197 and State Highway

3, some 2 miles south of the marine

terminal and 1 mile west of Galveston

Bay; and Site 3: (3 acres)—pump station

located at Loop 197 and State Highway

3, adjacent to the tank farm. The

terminal facilities (13 employees),

operated by APL, are used for the

receipt, storage, blending and

distribution via pipeline of crude oil for

use by refinery customers in Texas,

Oklahoma, Kansas and other

midwestern and northern states. Some

of the crude is transshipped to APL’s

terminal in Cushing, Oklahoma.

Zone procedures would allow Seaway

customers to defer Customs duty

payment on foreign crude oil to

domestic refineries with subzone status.

Seaway customers would be able to

maintain the appropriate zone status of

the crude so that these refineries can use

zone procedures as authorized by the

FTZ Board. This procedure will give

these refineries the same opportunity to

use zone procedures for foreign crude

delivered from the Seaway system as

those refineries with subzone status that

take direct delivery of foreign crude

from vessels.

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 2, 1997. Rebuttal

comments in response to material

submitted during the foregoing period

may be submitted during the subsequent

15-day period (to June 16, 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, Suite 1160, 500

Dallas, Houston, Texas 77002

Office of the Executive Secretary,

Foreign-Trade Zones Board, Room

3716, U.S. Department of Commerce,

14th & Pennsylvania Avenue, NW.,

Washington, DC 20230.

Dated: March 24, 1997.

John J. Da Ponte, Jr.,

Executive Secretary.

[FR Doc. 97–8258 Filed 3–31–97; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P

International Trade Administration

Quarterly Update to Annual Listing of

Foreign Government Subsidies on

Articles of Cheese; Subject to an InQuota Rate of Duty

AGENCY: Import Administration,

International Trade Administration,

Department of Commerce.

ACTION: Publication of Quarterly Update

to Annual Listing of Foreign

Government Subsidies on Articles of

Cheese Subject to an In-Quota Rate of

Duty.

SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce

(the Department), in consultation with

the Secretary of Agriculture, has

prepared its quarterly update to the

annual list of foreign government

subsidies on articles of cheese subject to

an in-quota rate of duty during the

period October 1, 1996 through

December 31, 1996. We are publishing

the current listing of those subsidies

that we have determined exist.

EFFECTIVE DATE: April 1, 1997.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Russell Morris or Maria MacKay, Office

of CVD/AD Enforcement VI, Import

Administration, International Trade

Administration, U.S. Department of

Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution

Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20230,

telephone: (202) 482–2786.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section

702(a) of the Trade Agreements Act of

1979 (as amended) (the Act) requires the

Department to determine, in

consultation with the Secretary of

Agriculture, whether any foreign

government is providing a subsidy with

respect to any article of cheese subject

to an in-quota rate of duty, as defined

in section 702(g)(b)(4) of the Act, and to

publish an annual list and quarterly

updates of the type and amount of those

subsidies. We hereby provide the

Department’s quarterly update of

subsidies on cheeses that were imported

during the period October 1, 1996

through December 31, 1996.

The Department has developed, in

consultation with the Secretary of

Agriculture, information on subsidies

(as defined in section 702(g)(b)(2) of the

Act) being provided either directly or

indirectly by foreign governments on

articles of cheese subject to an in-quota

rate of duty. The appendix to this notice

lists the country, the subsidy program or

programs, and the gross and net

amounts of each subsidy for which

information is currently available.

The Department will incorporate

additional programs which are found to

constitute subsidies, and additional

information on the subsidy programs

listed, as the information is developed.

The Department encourages any

person having information on foreign

government subsidy programs which

benefit articles of cheese subject to an

in-quota rate of duty to submit such

information in writing to the Assistant

Secretary for Import Administration,

U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th

Street and Constitution Avenue, NW.,

Washington, DC 20230.

This determination and notice are in

accordance with section 702(a) of the

Act.

Dated: March 25, 1997.

Robert S. LaRussa,

Acting Assistant Secretary for Import

Administration.

APPENDIX—SUBSIDY PROGRAMS ON CHEESE SUBJECT TO AN IN-QUOTA RATE OF DUTY

Country Program(s) Gross 1

subsidy

Net 2

subsidy

Austria ................................................. European Union Restitution Payments .......................................................... $0.16 $0.16