[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 110 (Thursday, June 6, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 28839-28840]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-14158]



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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
[Docket 45-96]


Foreign-Trade Zone 70--Detroit, Michigan; Application for Subzone 
Status, Marathon Oil Company (Oil Refinery Complex), Wayne County, MI

    An application has been submitted to the Foreign-Trade Zones Board 
(the Board) by the Greater Detroit Foreign

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Trade Zone, Inc., grantee of FTZ 70, requesting special-purpose subzone 
status for the oil refinery complex of Marathon Oil Company, located in 
Wayne County (Detroit area), Michigan. 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 May 28, 1996.
    The refinery complex (246 acres, 365 employees) consists of 4 sites 
and connecting pipelines in Wayne County (Detroit area), Michigan: Site 
1 (183 acres)--main refinery complex (70,000 BPD) located at 1300 South 
Fort Street on the Detroit River, Detroit and Melvindale ; Site 2 (15 
acres)--asphalt storage facility located at 301 South Fort Street on 
the Rouge River, 1 mile east of the refinery, Detroit; Site 3 (4 
acres)--finished product storage facility, located on Fordson Island in 
the Rouge River, 2 miles northeast of the refinery, Dearborn; Site 4 
(44 acres)--underground LPG storage cavern, located at 24400 Allen 
Road, 12 miles south of the refinery, Woodhaven.
    The refinery complex is used to produce fuels and petrochemical 
feedstocks. Fuels produced include gasoline, jet fuel, naphthas, 
distillates, and residual fuels. Petrochemical feedstocks and refinery 
by-products include methane, ethane, butane, propane, propylene, 
sulfur, asphalt, carbon black oil and petroleum coke. About 48 percent 
of the crude oil (91 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 by-products (duty-free) instead of the duty 
rates that would otherwise apply to the foreign-sourced inputs (e.g., 
crude oil). The duty rates on crude oil 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 
August 5, 1996. Rebuttal comments in response to material submitted 
during the foregoing period may be submitted during the subsequent 15-
day period (to August 20, 1996).
    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 District Office, 1140 McNamara Building, 
477 Michigan Ave., Detroit, Michigan 48226
Office of the Executive Secretary, Foreign-Trade Zones Board, Room 
3716, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th & Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, 
Washington, DC 20230.


    Dated: May 29, 1996.
John J. Da Ponte, Jr.,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 96-14158 Filed 6-5-96; 8:45 am]
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