[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 136 (Thursday, July 16, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Page 38368]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-18880]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board
[Docket 37-98]


Foreign-Trade Zone 202, Los Angeles, CA; Proposed Foreign-Trade 
Subzone, Tosco Refining Company (Oil Refinery Complex); Los Angeles, CA 
Area

    An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones Board 
(the Board) by the Los Angeles Board of Harbor Commissioners, grantee 
of FTZ 202, requesting special-purpose subzone status for the oil 
refinery complex of Tosco Refining Company, located in the Los Angeles, 
California, area. 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 July 8, 1998.
    The refinery complex (727 acres) is located at 4 sites in the Los 
Angeles, area (Los Angeles County), California: Site 1 (118,750 BPD 
capacity, 425 acres)--main refinery complex, located at 1660 West 
Anaheim Street, some 25 miles south of downtown Los Angeles; Site 2 (96 
tanks, 3.3 mil. barrel capacity, 235 acres)--storage facility used for 
crude oil and intermediate feedstocks, located at 1520 East Sepulveda 
Blvd., 5 miles northeast of the refinery; Site 3 (26 tanks, 840,000 
barrel capacity, 17 acres)--located within FTZ 202, Site 1, Los Angeles 
Harbor Marine Terminal at Berths 148, 149, 150, 151, 1 mile southeast 
of the refinery; Site 4 (24 tanks, 2.1 million barrel capacity, 50 
acres)--Torrance Tank Farm used for crude oil and finished product 
storage, located at 2650 West Lomita Blvd., approx. 4 miles northwest 
of the refinery.
    The refinery (575 employees) is used to produce fuels and 
petrochemical feedstocks. Fuel products include gasoline, jet fuel, 
distillates, residual fuels, naphthas and motor fuel blendstocks. 
Petrochemical feedstocks and refinery by-products include methane, 
ethane, propane, propylene, butane, petroleum coke and sulfur. Some 10 
percent of the crude oil (92 percent of inputs) and some motor fuel 
blendstocks are sourced abroad.
    Zone procedures would exempt the refinery from Customs duty 
payments on the foreign products used in its exports. On domestic 
sales, the company would be able to choose the Customs duty rates that 
apply to certain petrochemical feedstocks and refinery by-products 
(duty-free) by admitting incoming foreign crude oil and natural gas 
condensate in non-privileged foreign status. The duty rates on inputs 
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 
September 14, 1998.
    Rebuttal comments in response to material submitted during the 
foregoing period may be submitted during the subsequent 15-day period 
to September 29, 1998.
    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, 11000 Wilshire 
Blvd., Room 9200, Los Angeles, California 90024
Office of the Executive Secretary, Foreign-Trade Zones Board, Room 
3716, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th & Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, 
Washington, DC 20230.

    Dated: July 9, 1998.
Dennis Puccinelli,
Acting Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 98-18880 Filed 7-15-98; 8:45 am]
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