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Agenda and Notice of Public Meeting

of the Louisiana Advisory Committee

Notice is hereby given, pursuant to

the provisions of the rules and

regulations of the U.S. Commission on

Civil Rights, that a meeting of the

Louisiana Advisory Committee to the

Commission will convene at 6:00 p.m.

and adjourn at 9:00 p.m. on Monday,

July 8, 1996, and reconvene on Tuesday,

July 9, 1996 at 9:00 a.m. and adjourn at

3:00 p.m. at the Baker Civic Auditorium,

Baker, Louisiana. The purpose of the

meeting is to allow Committee members

to receive a briefing on race relations

issues in the aftermath of church

burnings.

Persons desiring additional

information, or planning a presentation

to the Committee, should contact

Melvin L. Jenkins, Director of the

Central Regional Office, 913–551–1400

(TDD 913–551–1414). Hearing-impaired

persons who will attend the meeting

and require the services of a sign

language interpreter should contact the

Regional Office at least five (5) working

days before the scheduled date of the

meeting.

The meeting will be conducted

pursuant to the provisions of the rules

and regulations of the Commission.

Dated at Washington, DC, June 20, 1996.

Carol-Lee Hurley,

Chief, Regional Programs Coordination Unit.

[FR Doc. 96–16306 Filed 6–25–96; 8:45 am]

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Agenda and Notice of Public Meeting

of the New Hampshire Advisory

Committee

Notice is hereby given, pursuant to

the provisions of the rules and

regulations of the U.S. Commission on

Civil Rights, that a meeting of the New

Hampshire Advisory Committee to the

Commission will convene at 9:00 a.m.

and adjourn at 12:30 p.m. on Monday,

July 22, 1996, at the Law Offices of

Nixon, Raiche, Manning and Branch, 77

Central Street, Manchester, New

Hampshire 03101. The purpose of the

meeting is to decide on a topic for its

new project and develop planning for

upcoming activities.

Persons desiring additional

information, or planning a presentation

to the Committee, should contact

Committee Chairperson Robert Raiche,

603–669–7070, or Ki-Taek Chun,

Director of the Eastern Regional Office,

202–376–7533 (TDD 202–376–8116).

Hearing-impaired persons who will

attend the meeting and require the

services of a sign language interpreter

should contact the Regional Office at

least five (5) working days before the

scheduled date of the meeting.

The meeting will be conducted

pursuant to the provisions of the rules

and regulations of the Commission.

Dated at Washington, DC, June 20, 1996.

Carol-Lee Hurley,

Chief, Regional Programs Coordination Unit.

[FR Doc. 96–16307 Filed 6–25–96; 8:45 am]

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Agenda and Notice of Public Meeting

of the South Carolina Advisory

Committee

Notice is hereby given, pursuant to

the provisions of the rules and

regulations of the U.S. Commission on

Civil Rights, that a meeting of the South

Carolina Advisory Committee to the

Commission will convene at 1:00 p.m.

and adjourn at 5:00 p.m. on Tuesday,

July 16, 1996, at the Adams Mark Hotel,

1200 Hampton Street, Columbia, South

Carolina 29201. The purpose of the

meeting is to hear from invited guests,

including the governor, State

representatives, mayors, police and fire

chiefs, religious communities involved,

and the civil rights community on the

recent rash of church burnings in the

South, with an emphasis on South

Carolina churches.

Persons desiring additional

information, or planning a presentation

to the Committee, should contact

Committee Chairperson Milton B.

Kimpson, 803–779–2597, or Bobby D.

Doctor, Director of the Southern

Regional Office, 404–730–2476 (TDD

404–730–2481). Hearing-impaired

persons who will attend the meeting

and require the services of a sign

language interpreter should contact the

Regional Office at least five (5) working

days before the scheduled date of the

meeting.

The meeting will be conducted

pursuant to the provisions of the rules

and regulations of the Commission.

Dated at Washington, DC, June 20, 1996.

Carol-Lee Hurley,

Chief, Regional Programs Coordination Unit.

[FR Doc. 96–16308 Filed 6–25–96; 8:45 am]

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Agenda and Notice of Public Meeting

of the Tennessee Advisory Committee

Notice is hereby given, pursuant to

the provisions of the rules and

regulations of the U.S. Commission on

Civil Rights, that a meeting of the

Tennessee Advisory Committee to the

Commission will convene at 9:00 a.m.

and recess at 11:00 a.m. on Wednesday,

July 10, 1996, at the Ramada Hotel, 160

Union Street in Memphis, Tennessee

38103. The purpose of the meeting is to

hold a press conference to release the

report, Racial Tensions in Tennessee.

The meeting is open to the public. The

meeting will reconvene at 1:00 p.m. and

adjourn at 5:00 p.m. to hear from invited

guests, including the governor, State

representatives, mayors, police and fire

chiefs, religious communities involved,

and the civil rights community on the

recent rash of church burnings in the

South, with an emphasis on Tennessee

churches.

Persons desiring additional

information, or planning a presentation

to the Committee, should contact

Committee Chairperson Jocelyn

Wurzburg, 901–684–1332, or Bobby D.

Doctor, Director of the Southern

Regional Office, 404–730–2476 (TDD

404–730–2481). Hearing-impaired

persons who will attend the meeting

and require the services of a sign

language interpreter should contact the

Regional Office at least five (5) working

days before the scheduled date of the

meeting.

The meeting will be conducted

pursuant to the provisions of the rules

and regulations of the Commission.

Dated at Washington, DC, June 20, 1996.

Carol-Lee Hurley,

Chief, Regional Programs Coordination Unit.

[FR Doc. 96–16309 Filed 6–25–96; 8:45 am]

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Docket 51–96]

Foreign-Trade Zone 47—Boone

County, Kentucky; Application for

Subzone Status, Ashland Inc. (Oil

Refinery Complex), Boyd and Daviess

Counties, Kentucky

An application has been submitted to

the Foreign-Trade Zones Board (the

Board) by the Greater Cincinnati Foreign

Trade Zone, Inc., grantee of FTZ 47,

Boone County, Kentucky, area,

requesting special-purpose subzone

status for the oil refinery complex of

Ashland Inc., located at sites in Boyd

and Daviess Counties, Kentucky. 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 June 17, 1996.

The refinery complex (1,250

employees) consists of 2 sites and

connecting pipelines in northern

Kentucky: Site 1 (1,029 acres)—main
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refinery complex (220,000 BPD

capacity) located at the intersection of

Interstate Hwy 64 and US Hwy 23 on

the Big Sandy River, Boyd County,

Kentucky, south of Catlettsburg,

including a refined product storage and

terminal facility located north of the

refinery, across the river in Kenova

(Wayne County), West Virginia; Site 2

(30 acres)—Ashland Pipe Line Co. crude

oil terminal (4 tanks/771,000 barrel

capacity) located at 1046 Pleasant

Valley Road, Daviess County, east of

Owensboro, Kentucky. The refinery,

terminals and pipelines operate as an

integrated refinery complex.

The refinery complex is used to

produce fuels and petrochemical

feedstocks. Fuel products produced

include gasoline, jet fuel, distillates,

diesel fuel, fuel oil, naphtha and MTBE.

Petrochemical feedstocks and refinery

by-products include methane, ethane,

propane, benzene, toluene, xylene,

cumene, propylene, ethylene, butylene,

butadiene, isobutene-isoprene,

naphthalene, carbon black oil, paraffin

waxes, sulfur and asphalt. Some 70

percent of the crude oil (97 percent of

inputs), and some feedstocks and motor

fuel blendstocks used in producing fuel

products may be 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, natural gas condensate). The

duty rates on inputs ranges from 5.25¢/

barrel to 10.5¢/barrel. Foreign

merchandise would also be exempt from

state and local ad valorem taxes. 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 26, 1996.

Rebuttal comments in response to

material submitted during the foregoing

period may be submitted during the

subsequent 15-day period (to September

9, 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, Export

Assistance Center, Suite 807, 405

Capitol Street, Charleston, West

Virginia 25301

Office of the Executive Secretary,

Foreign-Trade Zones Board, Room

3716, U.S. Department of Commerce,

14th & Pennsylvania Avenue, NW.,

Washington, DC 20230.

Dated: June 18, 1996.

John J. Da Ponte, Jr.,

Executive Secretary.

[FR Doc. 96–16190 Filed 6–25–96; 8:45 am]

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[Order No. 828]

Approval of Manufacturing Activity

Within Foreign-Trade Zone 21,

Charleston, South Carolina; Hubner

Manufacturing Corporation (Industrial

Bellows/Molded Parts)

Pursuant to its authority under the

Foreign-Trade Zones Act of June 18,

1934, as amended (19 U.S.C. 81a–81u),

the Foreign-Trade Zones Board (the

Board) adopts the following Order:

Whereas, § 400.28(a)(2) of the Board’s

regulations, requires approval of the

Board prior to commencement of new

manufacturing/processing activity

within existing zone facilities;

Whereas, the South Carolina State

Ports Authority, grantee of FTZ 21, has

requested authority under § 400.32(b)(1)

of the Board’s regulations on behalf of

the Hubner Manufacturing Corporation,

to manufacture industrial bellows and

plastic/rubber molded parts under zone

procedures within FTZ 21, Charleston,

South Carolina (filed 11–30–95, FTZ

Docket A(32b1)–20–95; Doc. 43–96,

assigned 5–23–96);

Whereas, pursuant to § 400.32(b)(1),

the Commerce Department’s Assistant

Secretary for Import Administration has

the authority to act for the Board in

making such decisions on new

manufacturing/processing activity

under certain circumstances, including

situations where the proposed zone

benefits do not involve the election of

nonprivileged foreign status on items

involving inverted tariff benefits

(§ 400.32(b)(1)(iii)); and,

Whereas, the request, as amended,

states that Hubner Manufacturing

Corporation will destroy all foreign

status scrap merchandise within FTZ

21;

Whereas, the Assistant Secretary for

Import Administration, acting for the

Board, pursuant to § 400.32(b)(1),

concurring in the findings and

recommendations of the FTZ Staff and

Executive Secretary, approves the

request;

Now, therefore, the application for

manufacturing authority is approved,

subject to the Act and the Board’s

regulations, including § 400.28, and

subject to the following restrictions:

1. Privileged foreign status (19 CFR

§ 146.41) shall be elected on all foreignorigin merchandise admitted to the zone

for the Hubner Manufacturing

Corporation operation; and,

2. Initial approval is for a period of

three (3) years from the date of

activation of zone procedures at the

plant, subject to extension upon review.

Signed at Washington, DC, this 17th day of

June 1996.

Robert S. LaRussa,

Acting Assistant Secretary of Commerce for

Import Administration, Alternate Chairman,

Foreign-Trade Zones Board.

Attest:

John J. Da Ponte, Jr.,

Executive Secretary.

[FR Doc. 96–16189 Filed 6–25–96; 8:45 am]

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[Docket 52–96]

Foreign-Trade Zone 116—Port Arthur,

TX Application for Subzone Status U.S.

Department of Energy Strategic

Petroleum Reserve (Crude Oil Storage)

Jefferson County, TX

An application has been submitted to

the Foreign-Trade Zones Board (the

Board) by the Foreign-Trade Zone of

Southeast Texas, Inc., grantee of FTZ

116, Port Arthur, Texas, requesting

special-purpose subzone status for the

crude oil storage facilities of the U.S.

Department of Energy Strategic

Petroleum Reserve (SPR) located in

Jefferson County, 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 June

18, 1996.

The SPR involves an emergency

stockpile of crude oil (over 590 million

barrels) stored in underground caverns

at five sites in Louisiana and Texas.

Currently, all crude oil is owned by the

U.S. Government. However, in 1995, the

U.S. Department of Energy commenced

plans to conduct commercial crude oil

storage and terminal activities at SPR

facilities for foreign governments.

This application involves SPR’s ‘‘Big

Hill’’ facility (274 acres, 149

employees), located in Jefferson County,

Texas, some 25 miles west of Port